Joint Accountability and Shared Outcomes

Establishing joint accountability and shared outcomes among collaborative partners is recognized as an important approach in building and sustaining collaborative partnerships. Without agreement on shared outcomes, each partner is likely to measure progress from its own perspective, using its own mandated performance measures and definitions of success. Regular review of performance indicators and outcomes will support the successful integration of shared outcomes and accountability among all partners.

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  Policy and Practice Resources

  • Child Welfare Outcomes 2010–2014: Report to Congress

    Administration for Children and Families; Administration on Children, Youth and Families; Children’s Bureau, 2017

    This report provides information on national performance as well as the performance of individual states in seven outcome categories. Information detailing data about the contextual factors and findings of analysis conducted across states is provided in this report to Congress.

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  • Children Affected by Methamphetamine Program: Implementation and Performance Measurement Report
    (PDF 1.7 MB)

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2016

    Children Affected by Methamphetamine was a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funded grant program focused on expanding and/or enhancing services to children and their families who are affected by methamphetamine use and abuse. This report includes lessons from integration of qualitative and quantitative findings, site-level performance data, methodological information, and a summary of sustainability plans.

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  • Evaluation Brief 3: Evaluation of Implementation and Outcomes
    (PDF 190 KB)

    Children’s Bureau, 2015

    The 2015 report Supporting Change in Child Welfare: An Evaluation of Training and Technical Assistance examines implementation practices by providing an overview of the evaluation approaches used by five regional Child Welfare Implementation Centers to assess the outcomes of child welfare implementation projects. This brief focuses on how project evaluations assessed implementation, fidelity, and system and organizational outcomes. Evaluation lessons, drawn from a synthesis of implementation project evaluations, are applicable to organizations in child welfare and other human services fields that undertake major change efforts.

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  • Introduction to Cross-System Data Sources in Child Welfare, Alcohol and Other Drug Services, and Courts
    (PDF 1.1 MB)

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2011

    This document focuses on the 15 primary data-reporting systems that child welfare, substance use disorder treatment, and court systems use to collect and report data. It is a companion guide to Facilitating Cross-System Collaboration: A Primer on Child Welfare, Alcohol and Other Drug Services, and Courts (PDF 1.1 MB).

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• State and Local Examples

  • Brief 5: Building the Performance Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity of Family Drug Courts
    (PDF 3.7 MB)

    Children and Family Futures, 2017

    Prevention and Family Recovery (PFR), funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Duke Endowment, strives to advance the capacity of family drug courts and their partner agencies to provide a comprehensive family-centered approach for children, parents, and families affected by parental substance use disorders and child abuse and neglect. This brief focuses on the progress of PFR grantees toward establishing a data-sharing infrastructure to monitor and discuss their progress. The brief also highlights examples of how grantees built their capacity to collect and use data to evaluate program, practice, and resource modifications to better serve families and communities.

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  • Florida Child Welfare Protection/Service and Family Substance Abuse Detection/Treatment Linking Practice to Outcomes: Outcome Measures
    (PDF 76 KB)

    Florida Department of Children and Families

    Child welfare and service providers in Florida collaborated to link social work practice to outcomes in the field. This chart provides information about how their initiative identified practice data to measure specific goals and outcomes.

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  • Michigan Child Welfare/Substance Abuse Collaborative Project Logic Models
    (PDF 106 KB)

    These logic models illustrate Michigan’s Child Welfare/Substance Abuse Collaborative project activities and expected outcomes in seven key areas - drug treatment court; communication; screening, assessment, engagement, and retention; evaluation; funding; marketing; training, and technical assistance. Each logic model depicts an objective and includes inputs, outputs and outcomes.

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• Additional Resources

  • Program Evaluations

    Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 2018

    On its website, The Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality, in partnership with SAMHSA, offers tools, tip sheets, and resources to support professionals with planning and management, implementation, and analysis of data and evaluations. The audience for this resource includes treatment professionals, child welfare administrators, and stakeholders.

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