next steps project logic model
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Outcome 1 High‐quality, comprehensive and
coordinated services.
Inputs
Next Steps program staff
Parent partners
RCDSS TANF/Employment staff, child
welfare staff
Next Steps Partner agencies – staff, administrators
Next Steps partner community organizaMons
Rockland County government
U.S.H.H.S. Child Welfare Bureau
TANF/child welfare grantee cluster peers and S.O.C. grantees
James Bell Associates & Glen MarMn Associates
AcMviMes That…
Generate Consensus about common goals, mission of enhanced
next steps.
Build a program logic model.
Establish procedure for a single, comprehensive family assessment and coordinated service
plan.
Improve informaMon sharing among partner
agencies.
Acknowledge, strengthen the voice of parents as partners in decision‐making for
children.
Lead to increased referrals of families
receiving child welfare services to Next Steps.
Increase staff capacity to work with different
cultures and to understand funcMons of
other agencies.
Outputs
Steering commiYee establishes and sustains
infrastructure for interagency collaboraMon.
Logic model is completed with steering
commiYee parMcipaMon.
Procedure for coordinated assessment and service plan is in
place.
FASP is adopted: informaMon sharing technology is in place.
Staff are trained in informaMon sharing
technology.
Procedure is in place requiring case planning to include parents in an acMve and meaningful
way.
Procedure for referral of parents with children in foster care or kinship care is established.
Outreach to child protecMve services caseworkers is conducted.
Staff undergo training in cultural sensiMvity, and undergo cross‐agency
training.
Short Term Outcomes
Steering commiYee seeks, supports, and
achieves common goals.
EvaluaMon is conducted and reports are generated.
Linkages among TANF, child welfare, mental health, and VESID systems, as well as community partners
are increased.
Partner agencies share informaMon on Next Steps clients for more Mmely, and beYer targeted service
delivery.
Parents help develop case plans.
Parents with children in foster care or kinship care referred to Next
Steps.
CPS caseworkers refer more parents to Next
Steps.
Staff cultural sensiMvity and understanding of funcMons of other agencies’ staff is
improved.
Mid Term Outcomes
CollaboraMon is sustained for the
steering commiYee.
EvaluaMon findings are used for program improvement,
disseminaMon and replicaMon.
Parents experience fewer obstacles due to overlapping, compeMng requirements from different systems.
Parents obtain services with greater ease and more appropriate
frequency.
Parents with children in foster care or kinship
care are enrolled in Next Steps.
Parents experience beYer access to services through increased cultural
capability and cross‐experMse of various
agency staff.
Long Term Outcome
Next Steps par+cipants receive
high quality, comprehensive and coordinated services.
Outcome 2
Next Steps families have sufficient resources to support themselves.
Inputs
Next Steps program staff
Parent partners
RCDSS TANF/Employment staff, child
welfare staff
Next Steps Partner agencies – staff, administrators
Next Steps partner community organizaMons
Rockland County government
U.S.H.H.S. Child Welfare Bureau
TANF/child welfare grantee cluster peers and S.O.C. grantees
James Bell Associates & Glen MarMn Associates
AcMviMes That…
Improve life management skills, job search skills, job skills, provide child care for
parMcipants while in the program, and provide job placement services
upon graduaMon.
Lead to improved access to VESID and supported work opportuniMes for
parMcipants with learning and other
disabiliMes.
Lead to the development of post‐graduaMon transiMonal services.
Lead to the establishment of alumni career support group.
Lead to the creaMon of career planning and employment‐related
services to non‐custodial fathers.
Outputs
Parents parMcipate in program experiences to
improve life management skills, job search skills, job skills;
receive case management and child
care while in the program, and job placement services upon graduaMon.
Barriers to Mmely VESID assessments are idenMfied and eliminated.
Protocol for streamlined referral to VESID is in
place.
TransiMonal support services and career planning are in place.
Monthly alumni career network meeMngs are
created.
Non‐custodial fathers have access to career
planning and employment‐related
services.
Short Term Outcomes
Parents improve life management skills, job search skills, job skills; parMcipants receive job placement assistance, while their children receive high quality
child care.
Parents are referred by VESID to work and
related services within 5 days of referral.
Learning and otherwise disabled parents will
parMcipate in supporMve work experience/community service acMviMes unMl fully
employed.
Parents obtain services and supports needed to
sustain work.
Non‐custodial fathers who use employment‐related services obtain
jobs.
Mid Term Outcomes
Parents obtain and retain employment.
Non‐custodial parents obtain and retain employment.
Long Term Outcome
Next Steps Families have sufficient
resources to support themselves.
Outcome 3
Parents and children have opMmal physical, developmental, and
emoMonal health.
Inputs
Next Steps program staff
Parent partners
RCDSS TANF/Employment staff, child
welfare staff
Next Steps Partner agencies – staff, administrators
Next Steps partner community organizaMons
Rockland County government
U.S.H.H.S. Child Welfare Bureau
TANF/child welfare grantee cluster peers and S.O.C. grantees
James Bell Associates & Glen MarMn Associates
AcMviMes That…
Provide nutriMon educaMon.
Provide opportuniMes to build self‐esteem and sense of personal empowerment.
Lead to beYer access to mental health and substance abuse
services.
Improve idenMficaMon of possible substance abuse
with parents.
Provide DialecMcal Behavioral Therapy.
Formalize procedures for developmental
screenings, appropriate health care and good nutriMon for every Next
Steps child.
Provide one‐on‐one assistance in finding high quality, reliable child
care.
Outputs
Parents parMcipate in nutriMon educaMon.
Parents engage in self‐esteem and personal
empowerment exercises.
Parents and their children have access to mental health and substance abuse
services.
A DBT program is established at the Next Steps program site.
Procedures for developmental
screenings, appropriate health care and good
nutriMon are established.
Next Steps parents receive one‐on‐one
assistance in finding high quality, reliable child
care.
Short Term Outcomes
Parents’ nutriMonal adtudes, knowledge and
skills improve.
Self‐esteem and sense of empowerment improves.
Parents and their children use appropriate
mental health and substance abuse
services.
Parents engage in two DBT sessions each week
at Next Steps site.
Children receive developmental
screenings, appropriate healthcare and good
nutriMon.
Children referred to Health Department for early intervenMon, if
needed.
Next Steps parents obtain high quality, reliable child care.
Mid Term Outcomes
Parents improve their nutriMon behaviors.
Parents experience greater self‐efficacy.
Mental health of parents improves; substance abuse decreases.
Parents decrease self‐defeaMng behaviors.
Children needing early intervenMon services
receive them.
Children receive high quality, reliable care
while their parents are at work.
Long Term Outcome
Parents and children have op+mal:
• Physical health • Developmental health • Emo+onal health
Outcome 4 Families are beYer able to raise children in stable and nurturing environments free of abuse and maltreatment.
Inputs
Next Steps program staff
Parent partners
RCDSS TANF/Employment staff, child
welfare staff
Next Steps Partner agencies – staff, administrators
Next Steps partner community organizaMons
Rockland County government
U.S.H.H.S. Child Welfare Bureau
TANF/child welfare grantee cluster peers and S.O.C. grantees
James Bell Associates & Glen MarMn Associates
AcMviMes That…
Increase parents’ knowledge of child development,
applicaMon of effecMve parenMng skills, as well
as strategies for increasing child safety and reducing risk of
abuse.
Increase staff understanding of
parenMng pracMces of Next Steps parMcipants
at home
Lead to the establishment of supervised visiMng program for non‐
custodial fathers and their children.
Lead to the establishment of
supervised visitaMon program for mothers with children in foster care or kinship care.
Update strategies for teaching parenMng to learning disabled
parents.
Lead to establishment of system to help families
build formal and informal support networks in their
respecMve communiMes
Outputs
Parents parMcipate in experiences designed to increase knowledge of child development,
effecMve parenMng skills, as well as strategies for increasing child safety and reducing risk of
abuse.
Increase level of caseworker involvement.
VisiMng program for non‐custodial fathers is
established.
Mothers have a beYer understanding of the
importance of appropriate male
involvement in child's life.
VisitaMon program for mothers of children in foster or kinship care is
established.
Learning disabled parents parMcipate in parent educaMon
designed with recent best pracMces for
teaching parenMng to learning disabled
parents.
Parents are given a resource directory of community supports when they graduate from the program.
Short Term Outcomes
Parents increase knowledge and skills in child development, along with use of
parenMng strategies for increasing child safety and reducing risk of
abuse.
Caseworkers are able to address parenMng
problems before they escalate.
Through increased contact with their
children, non‐custodial fathers and mothers of children in foster or kinship care improve
their skills, aYachment, relaMonships, and
responsiveness to child needs.
Learning disabled parents increase their parenMng knowledge
and skills.
Parents use resource directory to reach out for community supports aher graduaMon.
Mid Term Outcomes
Parents are able to implement and integrate effecMve parenMng, child
development, child safety, and risk reducMon skills.
Families experience fewer removals.
Families experience faster reunificaMons.
Learning disabled parents improve their
parenMng.
Parents experience less social isolaMon, and
sustain their connecMons to community supports.
Long Term Outcome
Families are beBer able to raise children in stable and nurturing environments free of
abuse and maltreatment.
Next Steps Program Theory of Change Academic & Computer
Job Search Employment Readiness
Self Development
Skills
ParenMng to Workplace Skills
Child Care & ParenMng Skills
Ego SupporMve Environment
Job Readiness
Self‐Sufficiency
Child Well‐Being, Safety Permanency
Enhanced ParenMng
EffecMve ParenMng
Public Assistance Grant | Child Care | TransportaMon | Case Management & Advocacy | Father Support Group