Company Profile
The Measurement Group LLC
Company Overview
The Measurement Group (TMG) conducts evaluations of health, mental health, and social services. TMG helps programs improve the lives of at-risk and vulnerable populations through useful, realistic, and user-friendly evaluations.
Company History
The Measurement Group was founded in 1988 by George J. Huba, PhD (Yale, 1977, now retired). Since 2011, TMG has been led by Lisa A. Melchior, PhD (University of Michigan, 1990). Over our history of more than 30 years, we have evaluated more than 400 health and social service programs across the US. Recent TMG evaluation projects have included:
Initiative-wide evaluations of major state-wide and national programs to increase capacity to meet the needs of older adults;
Evaluation of comprehensive substance abuse treatment programs for women, children, and families;
Feasibility studies to help healthcare and social service organizations implement new data and evaluation systems;
Evaluations of culturally-specific healthcare programs for underserved populations (such as recent immigrants, ethnic and cultural minority groups);
Evaluation studies of long-term impact of national initiatives on systems of care for major health conditions (such as HIV/AIDS).
Notable Clients
Clients include nonprofit and for-profit service providers as well as public and private funding organizations.
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
The Measurement Group offers a full range of services to document the processes, outcomes, and short and long-term impacts of health and social service programs.
TMG develops evaluation design and feasibility studies to help organizations determine their readiness to conduct program evaluation.
TMG designs and implements data collection systems that aim to be comprehensive while minimizing burden on clients and agency staff.
TMG analyzes quantitative (numeric) and qualitative (text-based) data using state-of-the-art methods.
TMG develops reports for various audiences, including internal management, agency funders, and other stakeholders.
TMG works with programs to use data as a continuous feedback mechanism to promote program improvement.
TMG creates dissemination products to support diffusion of innovation in healthcare and social services.