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9595880

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1998-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
Outcome monitoring has become a focus of accountability for public and nonprofit human service agencies. Besides providing answers to funders' questions about the services' impact, outcome monitoring helps administrators improve program effectiveness. After a three-year development period and a one-year implementation experience, SumOne for Kids represents a technically advanced outcome-monitoring system for children's mental health and/or child welfare services. Initiated, designed, and tested by 31 children's service agencies throughout Pennsylvania, and with state bureaucrats' and policy makers' encouragement, SumOne for Kids represents an effort to create a bottom-up/top-down process for implementing a statewide outcome-monitoring system. This article describes the genesis of this outcome-monitoring system, primary design principles, use of social validation for outcome selection, resolution of methodological difficulties, and reasons for selecting functional over clinical outcomes. The article reviews lessons learned through the development experience instructive to children's service managers, program evaluators, and industry leaders interested in establishing outcome-monitoring systems.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1094-3412
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
163-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1998
pubmed:articleTitle
Multiagency outcome evaluation of children's services: a case study.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Research & Public Policy, Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, PA 15214, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't