San Joaquin, CA This report presents findings from the evaluation of First 5 San Joaquin’s services for children with special needs who are under five years of age. Evaluation questions and methods are detailed, followed by an overview of the...
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Fresno County, CA This memo highlights and synthesizes select findings from Harder+Company’s scan of California Help Me Grow Models. The scan—spanning from November 2016 through March 2017—was designed to help First 5 Fresno County better understand the core elements of...
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The California Community Care Coordination Collaborative (5Cs) assembled ten local coalitions across the state, bringing together previously siloed agencies with the goal of assessing current practices to improve local care coordination services and identify needed changes to the systems that...
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Alameda County, CA In Fall 2015, a survey designed to support program quality improvement efforts was conducted with 62 parents/caregivers who had enrolled their child in Help Me Grow Alameda County’s Developmental Screening Program (DSP). The program provides parents and...
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Alameda County, CA In 2014, Help Me Grow Alameda County (HMG) partnered with Alameda County Public Health Women, Infants and Children (WIC) to introduce the use of developmental checklists at WIC sites in Alameda County, California. Looking to enhance its...
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Alameda County, CA A telephone survey was conducted to understand families’ experiences with the support they received from the HMG phoneline and in-person family navigation supports. The survey addressed customer satisfaction, the impact of the support families’ received, and whether...
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Orange County, CA August 2016 Key findings from this study indicate that the Orange County Care Coordination Collaborative for Kids contributed to improving the system of care for children with special health care needs by creating a collaborative care coordination...
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Orange County, CA January, 2017 This report addressed a number of questions about developmental screening in Orange County, CA including: What has taken place over the last 15 years to promote developmental screening and connection to services? Where do screenings...
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Orange County, CA May 2016 This evaluation used the Results-Based Accountability™ framework developed by Mark Friedman and assisted HMG Orange County in documenting and measuring its efforts and impacts to answer the following questions: How much did HMG do?, How...
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By Paul Dworkin, MD Authors of Can Measures Change the World? are challenging us to not measure more, but instead focus our collective efforts on finding measures that accurately represent systems (the whole). Little attention or energy is dedicated to...