Performance+Outcomes


 * Performance Outcomes Information for completion of the '13-'14 funding application **


 * For the '13-'14 funding cycle, CDC staff may be proposing changes to the outcomes you proposed in your application. A final set of edited outcomes will be incorporated into your current funding agreement. Please feel free to use the information on this page for future application assistance. **


 * Link to follow up training Survey Monkey **


 * Answers to outstanding questions from the workshop**
 * Based on completing the logic model handed out at the training, what exactly should we put in our funding application?
 * We feel that since the application is your opportunity to inform the CD Committee about your program - you should say whatever you feel is most important about the outcomes you choose as a response to Q.IV.d. on Page 6
 * The Targeted Factors and Indicators are too narrow to accurately describe the program I am applying for
 * We would like you to continue to use the choices from the **Targeted Factors** list as that list is broad. If you do need to define a different **Outcome Indicator Descriptor** you may do so - but please make an effort to "tie it back" to the choices on the existing Indicator list. Those list again include:


 * Targeted Factors List:**
 * Poverty
 * Family Dysfunction
 * Racial Disparity
 * Early Anti-Social Behavior
 * Community Conditions
 * Negative Peer Influence
 * Outcome Indicators List:**
 * Child maltreatment
 * Youth binge drinking
 * Youth drug use
 * Youth tobacco use
 * Teen births
 * Obesity
 * Pre-school attendance
 * 3rd grade reading
 * High school completion
 * Higher education
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Housing affordability
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Homelessness
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Juvenile Arrest
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Adult arrests
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Domestic violence
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Gang membership
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Youth connectedness
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Poverty
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Unemployment
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Health insurance
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Length of time in homelessness
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Number of times homeless
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Outreach success
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Number of Ind/Families homeless
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Employment/Income growth
 * <span style="color: #595959; font-family: 'gill sans mt','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">HEARTH – Outcomes for homeless per other Federal Statutes

Our review of the submitted Outcomes Worksheets has been finalized and a general message was sent out to everyone regarding the changes we are seeking. Here is a recap of that email sent //**Wednesday September 12, 2012:**//
 * Here is an informational email that was sent to our '12-'13 grantees with requested revisions to their first submission of outcomes:**

Good Afternoon –

We would to update you on the status of your '12-'13 CDC funding agreements and related service outcomes review. Staff, with the assistance of Megan Sirna, staff with Sonoma County Human Services’, Upstream Investment Initiative have reviewed all submissions and will be returning the results of our review to you this week. Please review our comments and be prepared to make the changes we have requested or contact us to discuss alternatives. __You will need to resubmit the Outcomes Review Worksheet__ with the recommended changes to be included with the final execution of your program’s ’12-’13 funding agreement.

We have posted the information below in the CDC-Funding Wiki where you may reference for help in finalizing the Outcomes Worksheets (forms are located on the CDC-Funding Wiki Forms page – under the Quarterly and Annual Report Forms category)

The comments made in this message are intended to be general in nature and you will also receive an individual review with more detailed comment.

Overall CDC and Upstream staff have noted and made recommendations about the following –


 * Outcomes should related specifically to the program/project being funded and must meet the conditions stipulated in the Exhibit A portion of the funding agreement.


 * The majority of the outcomes worksheets need to identify (in addition to a percentage) a base number of clients to be served. By establishing this baseline – we can more accurately measure the percent being declared as successful outcomes. Please also be sure your base “numbers served” matches what you have indicated in the Exhibit A portion of your funding agreement. (For example your outcome states you will have 100% success on an indicator for 150 participants, but your agreement states you will serve 1,500 people)


 * In some instances, the alignment of the Targeted Factor, Outcomes Indicator and Quantitative Measure did not flow through. In some cases we are recommending those programs go off the published list of Outcomes Indicators to establish indicators that will work better. In other cases you will note that we have made recommended changes to the Targeted Factor, Outcome Indicator or both.


 * Any Quantitative Measure (QM) you have developed will need to be measured in either the HMIS or some other tracking system. If the program does not participate in the HMIS so please make sure you are set up to do so with another data tracking tool.


 * Programs providing services or shelter dedicated to the Homeless population have generally been redirected to track HEARTH measures (if they were not created that way on your original worksheet submission).


 * For Emergency Shelter programs – we have generally requested that you track success in housing placement to permanent and/or transitional housing. Please remember that under the new ESG regulations, transitional housing is considered to be “temporary” and a client placed into TH is still technically considered to be “homeless”.

We will be returning our commentary regarding your program’s outcomes this week and request that you read the attached comments, re-complete and resubmit the new outcomes worksheets. The due date for return of the worksheets is **__Friday September 21s__**t, but you may return them at any time prior as well. Once your outcomes have been approved, your funding agreement will be submitted for execution by the CDC Executive Director.

<span style="font-family: 'berlin sans fb','sans-serif';">Community Development Associate / HMIS Coordinator <span style="font-family: 'berlin sans fb','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">Sonoma County Community Development Commission <span style="font-family: 'berlin sans fb','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(707) 565-7541 direct line <span style="font-family: 'berlin sans fb','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px;">(707) 565-7583 fax
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teddie Pierce **