Question

This assignment will be completed on: Accountability in the Child Welfare

Question 1

Why do you feel its important to implement these two strategies below

Developing and actively using detailed, meaningful plans to track progress &

Working with agency data systems and sharing data across agencies.

Answer 1

Developing and actively using detailed, meaningful plans to track progress yes required

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• By assessing strategic plans routinely to measuring the progress. documentation of the process of system change, identifying lessons learned, and determining action steps for sustainability would help integrate planning, work, and results into a unified vision for the initiative.
• Using detailed plans to monitor progress and engaging everyone performing the work. Through good project management and thorough tracking tools, the collaborative can hold community members and agencies accountable for activities they promised to accomplish.
  • To monitor and guide the work of several subcommittees involved in systems improvement activities in the child welfare agency each subcommittee can follow the PDSA [Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) improvement process (Langley et al., 1996)] process to create, implement, assess, and act on the results of systems improvement activities such as developing cross-system training and revising an intake form to be more family friendly.
  • collaborative's committees could perceive the progress by asking participants about the committee goals, membership, and productivity. Based on the feedback, grant staff can make modifications to the facilitation and activities of the subcommittees to ensure meaningful and productive meetings.
  • outlining-style tracking tool will help to identify the tasks assigned to each collaborative partner and enable the collaborative to track progress toward goals.
• Develop logic models for specific areas of work. Some efforts within a large initiative are so complex that they may benefit from their own planning documents.. The activity models may help the grant team and local system of care steering committees stay focused on grant goals. The activity models also provided a framework for dialogue among diverse stakeholders on various grant activities and progress toward goals.Such focused plans can be especially helpful for collaboratives with dedicated subcommittees.

Working with agency data systems and sharing data across agencies to make data entry convenient and useful for child welfare professionals would result in improved worker morale, improved data quality, and more efficient workload management.It also educates staff on existing sharing information policies.Confidentiality forums can be formed which can help in resolving questions about the information that could be shared between staff of agencies serving the same family members.Also we should link data from  other systems serving similar populations to give better visibility and understanding to the characteristics and needs of families and individuals served by both systems.