This editorial discusses the challenge of evaluating prevention programs and proposes an overarching schema for evaluations.  Whilst the focus is on programs for preventing mental health problems, it is relevant to prevention programs within human services generally.

It is written by Graham Martin, Karolina Krysinska and Sarah Swannell and is published in the July 2008 edition of the Australian e-Journal for the Advancement of Mental Health.  Download from http://www.auseinet.com/journal/vol7iss2/martin.pdf.