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Using Data to Assess Quality Improvement Results.
Lipson, Debra J. - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608848
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Quality Rating and Improvement Systems: Frameworks for Early Care and Education Systems Change.
Schaak, Diane; Tarrant, Kate; Boller, Kimberly; Tout, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010609600
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Implementing the Crossover Youth Practice Model in diverse contexts: Child welfare and juvenile justice professionals' experiences of multisystem collaborations
Haight, Wendy L.; Bidwell, Laurel N.; Marshall, Jane Marie - In: Children and Youth Services Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 91-100
justice and child welfare systems communicate and collaborate more effectively in case assessment, planning and management … and key community stakeholders. Comparative case analyses across five counties suggest that systems change processes vary … across and within local contexts. Implications for the implementation of systems change practice models in diverse contexts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010753655
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Towards a performance measurement system for health equity in a local health integration network
Nakaima, April; Sridharan, Sanjeev; Gardner, Bob - In: Evaluation and Program Planning 36 (2013) 1, pp. 204-212
While there is a growing literature on building performance measurement systems for health equities, this literature … nature of such systems, or how evaluations and measurement can themselves improve performance. This paper describes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010595331
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Reclaiming Futures: Using communication to drive community and systems change
Prichard, Mac; Nissen, Laura Burney; Farrell, Patty; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 34-34
Reclaiming Futures is a national juvenile justice reform initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. During its 11years of demonstration and expansion phases, Reclaiming Futures has used a variety of communications strategies, tools, and techniques to achieve its objectives. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574593
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Evaluating systems change in a juvenile justice reform initiative
Roman, John K.; Butts, Jeffrey A.; Roman, Caterina Gouvis - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 41-41
Evaluating comprehensive, interagency initiatives to reform human services systems presents substantial challenges to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574643
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The development and evolution of Reclaiming Futures at the ten-year mark: Reflections and recommendations
Nissen, Laura Burney; Merrigan, Dan - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 9-9
Reclaiming Futures has been a successful national demonstration project, initially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which seeks to improve a system-wide response to young people in the juvenile justice system with substance abuse issues. The initiative is a multiyear effort that has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574675
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Exploring the implementation of justice-based alcohol and drug intervention strategies with juvenile offenders: Reclaiming Futures, enhanced adolescent substance abuse treatment, a...
Nissen, Laura Burney; Pearce, Jessica - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 60-60
There is a need for practice models to match young people in the juvenile justice system with timely and effective alcohol and drug intervention services. This paper reports on a new demonstration effort in which three practice approaches currently operating in the United States are being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577807
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Toward an effective treatment system for adolescents with substance use disorders: The role of the states
Cavanaugh, Doreen; Kraft, M. Katherine; Muck, Randolph; … - In: Children and Youth Services Review 33 (2011) S1, pp. 16-16
program's results. Both quantitative and qualitative data analysis document that substantive systems development occurred …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577824
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Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Frameworks for Early Care and Education Systems Change
Schaak, Diane; Tarrant, Kate; Boller, Kimberly; Tout, … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2012
Provides a foundation for more conceptually integrated approaches to early childhood care, education, and comprehensive services.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011102484