This article presents findings from a community-based participatory evaluation of a Housing First program on the Island of O’ahu. In this study, clients in a Housing First program used Photovoice to evaluate the program and to advocate for progressive housing policies. Written together by members of the Housing First Photovoice group, this collaborative article describes the outcomes from both the Housing First program and the Photovoice project and demonstrates the ways in which participatory program evaluations can interact with client-driven programs like Housing First to produce a cumulative, transformative impact. Findings suggest that community psychologists hoping to re-engage with community mental health systems through enacting transformative change should consider taking a community-based participatory approach to program evaluation because increased client voice in community mental health programs and their evaluations can have far-reaching, transformative impacts for research, practice, and policy.

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The competences of the personnel assigned to the routine health information system are factors associated with the performance of using the information to make improvements in the health of the population. The objective of this work was to evaluate the perceived competences and the observed skills to perform key tasks of the health information system in the Social Security Institute. As a method, a study was carried out in 2012, of an observational, descriptive cross-sectional type, which included public institutions of the national health system. Cluster sampling was made, where 109 people involved in IPS routine health system participated. A standard questionnaire was applied according to the PRISM / OBAT model. The results indicated that there are significant differences between what the staff believes they can do and what they are actually capable of doing. Especially regarding the ability to interpret and use information. Under this model, the motivation was 82.1%, perceived self-efficacy 78.6% and the observed competences 57.5%. The skills to interpret the information and to use it had the lowest results 28% and 51% respectively.