Resources

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Outcome Assessment

Building Results I: From Wellness Goals to Positive Outcomes for Oregon's Children, Youth, and Families (1997)

Building Results I reviews research to identify the best practices and specific outcomes that are strongly related to reaching Oregon's goals and benchmarks for children, youth, and families.
Preface
Chapter 1: Linking Goals to Outcomes
Chapter 2: Best Practices to Reach Wellness Goals
Chapter 3: Strong, Nurturing Families
Chapter 4: Nurturing Families' Special Concern
Chapter 5: Healthy, Thriving Children
Chapter 6: Positive Youth Development
Chapter 7: Positive Youth Development Special Concerns
Chapter 8: Educational Progress and Success
Chapter 9: Caring Communities and Systems
References

Building Results II: Measuring Outcomes for Oregon's Children, Youth, and Families (includes 350-page appendix of measures) (1998)

Building Results II identifies measurement approaches and tools for assessing the specific outcomes identified in Building Results I. This resource guide includes a 350-page appendix of measurement instruments.
Preface
Chapter 1: Accountability and Performance Measurement
Chapter 2: Principles of Performance Measurement
Chapter 3: Measurement Approaches
Chapter 4: Developing Surveys
Chapter 5: Family Outcomes Measures
Chapter 6: Child Outcomes Measures
Chapter 7: Youth Outcomes Measures
Chapter 8: Educational Outcomes Measures
Chapter 9: Child and Youth Environments Measures
Index of Measures
Index of Outcomes

Building Results Through Community Mobilization: From Wellness Goals to Community Outcomes for Oregon’s Children, Youth, and Families (2003) [visit the link and then go to Publications to find this reference]

• Research Based Programs, Practices and Principles Support Children, Youth, and Families from RAND, Colorado Foundation, Family Investment Trust, Foundation Consortium, and Georgia Academy.
• Six Research-Based Guiding Principles for Successful Programs and Practices from Building Results... by Clara Pratt, Aphra Katzev, Tammy Henderson, and Rachel Ozretich

Home Visiting

• 2000-2001 Oregon Healthy Start Status Report
  • Appendix A: Site Descriptions
  • Appendix B: Data Tables
• 1999-2000 Oregon Healthy Start Status Report
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B-1
  • Appendix B-2
  • Summary
• 1998-1999 Oregon Healthy Start Status Report
• 1997-1998 Oregon Healthy Start Status Report; Appendix
• 1996-1997 Oregon Healthy Start Status Report
  • Part 1: Family Assessment and Service Delivery; Appendix
  • Part 2: Performance Outcomes for Children and Families; Appendix

Using a performance measurement approach, these status reports assess the successes and challenges experienced in the pursuit of Healthy Start's goals to create wellness for Oregon children and their families.

2000 Healthy Start Cost Benefit
This cost benefit analysis examines the relevant monetary benefits and costs of the Oregon Healthy Start system of supports for higher risk, first time families. Anticipated benefits from participation in two-years of Oregon Healthy Start (OHS) home visitation were compared to the costs of two years of program delivery.

1999 Healthy Start Implementation Study
Implementing Oregon Healthy Start: How Are We Doing? describes 14 Healthy Start sites, the challenges they have faced in implementing aspects of the Healthy Start framework and strategies they have found successful. County sites include: Clackamas, Clatsop, Deschutes, Harney, Hood River, Jackson, Josephine, Lane, Linn, Marion/Polk (combined), Tillamook, Union, Wasco/Sherman (combined), and Washington.

Poverty

A Portrait of Poverty in Oregon (2000)

This publication discusses the various causes of poverty and the demographics of the poor in Oregon. It reviews government, non-profit and private agencies and organizations that assist Oregonians in poverty (Publication #EM8743).

Economic Well-being and Poverty in Oregon and its Counties (1999)

This series of profiles shows how residents of each Oregon county, and of the state as a whole, are faring economically. The profiles are available in pdf files.

Foster Care

• Enriching Foster Family Relationships Through Problem Solving (EC 1517) is a booklet, published through OSU Extension, designed to help foster families enhance their interpersonal problem solving abilities.

• Foster Child: Emergency Placement Form is a guide for foster parents to use as a quick screening tool when asked whether they are willing to accept a last-minute placement of a foster child.

• Foster Child Placement Information Form is a comprehensive booklet of information to help foster families decide whether a particular foster child will be a good match for their family.