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Session Title: Getting To Outcomes at the Federal, State, County, and Local Levels: Session II
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Panel Session 636 to be held in Carroll Room on Friday, November 9, 3:35 PM to 4:20 PM
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Sponsored by the Collaborative, Participatory & Empowerment Evaluation TIG
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| Abraham Wandersman,
University of South Carolina,
wandersman@sc.edu
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| Catherine Lesesne,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
ckl9@cdc.gov
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| Abstract:
Getting To Outcomes is an approach to help practitioners plan, implement, and evaluate their programs to achieve results. The roots of GTO are traditional evaluation, empowerment evaluation, continuous quality improvement and results-based accountability. GTO uses 10 accountability questions; addressing the 10 questions involves a comprehensive approach to results-based accountability that includes evaluation and much more. It includes: needs and resource assessment, identifying goals, target populations, desired outcomes (objectives), science and best practices, logic models, fit of programs with existing programs, planning, implementation with fidelity, process evaluation, outcome evaluation, continuous quality improvement, and sustainability. GTO workbooks have been developed in several domains (substance abuse prevention, preventing underage drinking, positive youth development) and is currently under development in several other domains (preventing teen pregnancy, preventing violence, emergency preparedness). The papers in this panel will show how GTO is being used at the federal, state, county, and local levels.
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Getting to Outcomes and Systems of Care For Child and Family Mental Health Services
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| Duncan Meyers,
University of South Carolina,
meyersd@gwm.sc.edu
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| Greg Townley,
University of South Carolina,
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| David Asiamah,
University of South Carolina,
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| Sheara Fernando,
University of South Carolina,
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| David Osher,
American Institutes for Research,
dosher@air.org
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Systems of Care (SOCs) are comprehensive service delivery models that support children and adolescents with severe emotional disturbances (SED) and their families with an array of community-based resources tailored to their unique strengths and needs. While federally-funded SOCs are guided by a philosophy of how care should be provided, local sites must develop innovations at the local level to reflect the context of their community while simultaneously adhering to national requirements. In an effort to provide a process for planning, implementing, evaluating, improving, and sustaining an SOC initiative, the Getting to Outcomes (GTO) framework is being crosswalked with SOC philosophy in a collaborative effort among diverse professionals (e.g., local SOC evaluators, national technical assistance staff, University collaborators). This session will: (a) describe ways in which the GTO framework complements SOC philosophy; (b) describe the process of crosswalking GTO and SOC philosophy; and (c) discuss future directions for this initiative.
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Getting to Outcomes in Local Systems Transformations
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| Rusti Berent,
Children's Institute,
rberent@childrensinstitute.net
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| Jody Levinson-Johnson,
Coordinated Care Services Inc,
jlevinson-johnson@ccsi.org
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Nowadays staff and stakeholders in public and private provider agencies, schools, and school districts often have the desire and motivation to be partners in the evaluation of their local health and mental health systems. Regardless of their experience with evaluation, these individuals share recognition of the value of partnering with evaluators to implement frameworks and develop strategies to document where they are and where they are going. This presentation examines a local community's readiness for and adoption of the Getting to Outcomes framework and its application to the evaluation of a system transformation. The stakeholders include youth, parents, teachers, administrators, and health, mental health and other child serving providers. Implementing the GTO process begins with gaining buy-in, assessing capacity and readiness, and identifying and building upon existing expertise. We illustrate how and why GTO is a flexible framework that is making a positive difference in getting to and sustaining outcomes.
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