The Noxious Nineties : c. 1999 Stage Two: Building Trust and Ownership
• Has the collaborative conducted a comprehensive community assessment that... ___produces a profile of child and family well-being in the community; ...
• Have partners defined a shared vision and goals for changing education and human services?...
Stage Three: Developing a Strategic Plan
• Has the collaborative narrowed its focus to a specific neighborhood for launching a service delivery prototype?
• Has the collaborative conducted a neighborhood analysis... • Has the collaborative defined the target outcomes?…
• Is a mechanism in place for using program-level intelligence to suggest system-level changes?...
Stage Four: Taking Action
• Is the collaborative evaluating progress by: ___using process evaluation techniques; and ___measuring outcomes?
• Have partners reflected on their work and celebrated their accomplishments?
Stage Five: Going to Scale • Has the collaborative built a formal governance structure?...
• Is the collaborative promoting change in the federal government’s role in delivering services for children and families?
• Is the collaborative continuing to reflect and celebrate as it “climbs the mountain” of systems change?
Checklist 2 Indicators of Systems Change Are agency agreements in place?...
Do program-level information and intelligence trigger policy-level changes across multiple systems?...
Have partners developed shared information systems? • Is there ready access to each other’s records? ...
• Have agencies replaced separate in-house forms to gather the same kind of infor- mation with a common form used by all members or other organizations to establish program eligibility? Assess case management needs? Develop case plans?
Have partner agencies incorporated the vision and values of the collaborative at their ad- ministrative and staff levels?
• Have partners altered their hiring criteria, job descriptions, and preservice or inservice training to conform to a vision of comprehensive, accessible, culturally appropriate, family-centered, and outcome-oriented services? ...
• Are outcome goals clearly established? • Has the collaborative used its data collection capacity to document how well children