The proposed staff development education program targets educating staff about the complex mental health needs of aging veterans diagnosed with mental illness. With this information in mind, address the following and include citations.

• Explain why a process evaluation would be necessary for the program.
• State the type of process evaluation and stage of implementation (when in the program it will occur) and why.
• Determine who will conduct the process evaluation (internal or external evaluator).
• Include a broad question to be answered by the process evaluation (overarching question).
• Identify specific questions to be answered by the process evaluation (subquestions).
• Describe a plan for gathering and analyzing the information.
• Describe a plan for ongoing evaluations (how often, etc.).