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Goal
To provide essential components, demonstrated and model programs, and other resource materials that are effective in achieving desired outcomes.
Best Practice Areas
Child Care & Education
Home Visiting
Juvenile Crime Prevention
Teen Pregnancy Prevention
Alcohol & Drug Abuse
Parent Education & Support
Early Literacy
Health/Mental Health
Positive Youth Development
How to Use This Information
Best practices are research-based or evidence-based programs, practices and priciples that are shown to reliably produce measurable and sustainable improvements in productivity, efficiency or effectiveness.
Best Practices Help Ensure Good Outcomes
The best practices information presented is intended to build on the many years of good work the commission system has devoted to outcome evaluation and the Building Results framework of accountability. Local commissions and their contracted providers will need to be able to show the research basis of their programs, services, initiatives, and activities. That research basis can be shown through quality data that is a part of outcomes data collection currently undertaken or through other research studies.
Information is structured using specific topic areas because research is most accessible and easily defined by topic. It is important to note, however, that best practices and programs usually impact multiple family issues and therefore may cross over more than one topic area. These topic areas are divided into several sections: Essential Components; Demonstrated and Model Programs; Useful Web Sites; and Research Resources. Each is described in more detail below.
Essential Components are drawn from the research on successful programs and outline the important pieces of these programs. These essential components can be used to design a new program to meet local needs or to learn more about what works and why. Communities will need to determine which essential components are feasible and work to design the strongest programs possible given local conditions. There is no magic formula for the number of components that must be included. Programs and services will have to draw from the research in the program design and rely on collecting high quality data to show the program´s effectiveness.
Demonstrated and Model Programs are a second method to use in designing a new program. This section provides samples of what a community may choose to replicate or use as the basis for a new design. The demonstrated and model programs listed are only intended as a few samples that have been gathered from the research.
Useful Web Sites and Research Resources provide you or providers with sources of additional information, including some of the actual evaluations done in the field. These sections might be used as a means to find additional model programs or to design a new program based on research of what has been shown to be effective. They can also be used for educational purposes to better understand what works and why.
Each of these sections can also be used to help you in examining whether your current programs could be considered best practices. For example, you could see if a program contains the essential components. You could also examine if a program is based upon a demonstrated or model program. Research articles could show the value of a particular type of service or program.
For information contact:
For information, contact:
Marilyn Miller
Local Systems Development Coordinator
(503) 378-2107
marilyn.k.miller(at)state.or.us
Peg VanderZanden
Local Systems Development Coordinator
(541) 263-1242 (c)
(541) 426-5805 (o)
peggy.vanderzanden(at)state.or.us
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