The evaluation seeks to address these questions during CWBH’s implementation phase:

1. How do the collaboratives generate and reach consensus on their goals and strategies for improving health indicators among low-wage workers?

2. What types of capacity, support, partnerships, and resources are required for sites to implement their proposed strategies successfully?

3. What strategies and interventions have the greatest potential to help low-income people get good jobs? What strategies in the project’s first phase show promise?

4. Judging from pilot efforts, how likely are the collaboratives to have a large effect on outcomes in their respective regions if CWBH progresses to a second phase?

The long-term goal of the evaluation, to be realized in the next stage of the project’s development, is to discover how the interventions devised by the collaboratives affect the physical and mental health of low-income people in the targeted communities.