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