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VVDB Research
Values
for Evaluation and Quality Improvement |
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 All information gathered should be
utilization focused
Information systems should be integrated and useful for child and family teams
Information gathering systems should be parsimonious
Information gathered should be based on the community system of care and wraparound value
Community Assessment At one level, these are: a community assessment and planning process helps a community to answer several basic questions. What are our problems? What are our strengths and resources? How can we use our strengths as allies to address our problems? How can we generate funding to meet the needs of our children and families? The problems facing communities are complex and the strengths and resources of communities are unique. The visions and pathways to improve the status of the most important resource of each community (its children) will also be unique. To develop community visions and plans that will work for a community and to address these in effective and cost efficient ways, it is important to integrate the efforts of families, community leaders, service providers, informal and protective supports, and financiers in ways that work best for each unique community. Complex problems require well thought out solutions. These are best designed by a planning team who truly represent all segments of the community and who have quality and complete information. Well-informed planners and communities will not only be able to make better plans for their communities but will be positioned to obtain larger shares of resources available from outside the community. VVDB staff assist community teams in all aspects of community assessments.
Building community evaluation teams and capacity Role
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VVDB has been working with local communities to develop ongoing quality improvement systems that measure the outcomes and process of services for children and families. VVDB works with local communities to define the values and goals for the local system and to identify performance indicators for these values and goals. These performance indicators have then been used to develop integrated systems to measure the outcomes of services as an ongoing part of the service delivery process and to measure process through supervisory and quality improvement activities. The process measures include ratings of the overall performance of the community against the standards developed by the community, individual personnel measures (from which personnel development plans can be developed), consumer satisfaction and empowerment, services access, utilization ,and cost, and measures of adherence to the standards for systems of care by individual staff and agencies. VVDB works with communities to use these measures to plan, fine-tune, and sustain their work. Links Click here for links to other valuable resource websites. Please note that VVDB does not continually review or endorse the websites mentioned and is not liable for their content.
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Although
many communities may not be involved directly in controlled
research projects, the information from these projects should be
used as a guide for determining and thus selecting strategies for
supporting children and families. VVDB supports and conducts
research with communities to identify and assess the impact of
many of the variables that impact services and supports. In
addition, VVDB believes that all
communities should base the development, implementation, and
refinement of their systems of care on assessment of the outcomes
for children and families within their communities. VVDB supports
the development of assessment, evaluation, and continuous quality
improvement within communities through the facilitation of a
common vision within the community on the values and uses of
assessment and data, development of local community evaluation
teams, training and mentoring for staff and community teams on
evaluation issues, and external assessment.
