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Goal
By defining the results, or "outcomes," they hope to achieve through Commission-funded programs and initiatives, local decision-makers can make sound decisions based on research about what strategies work best to meet specific local community needs.
How It Works
OCCF provides funding and technical assistance to 36 local commissions. They, in turn, contract with local providers for services that have been shown to achieve the desired outcomes. Local commissions monitor and evaluate these contracted programs, measure their outcomes, and regularly report the results to OCCF through the Fiscal, Monitoring and Outcomes Reporting System (FMORS).
Local commissions make use of an outcome measurement system outlined in a series of publications called Building Results, written by Clara Pratt and the Family Policy Program at Oregon State University.
The Building Results series is designed to assist local commissions and their service providers make sound decisions, based on research, on how to create and evaluate a comprehensive wellness system. The three books link research to goals to action to outcomes, and review research to identify the best practices and specific desired outcomes. They also link research to practice and identify outcome measurement approaches and tools such as surveys, questionnaires, and pre- and post-program tests for assessing specific outcomes.
Outcomes are chosen to address four basic goals:
1) Strong, Nurturing Families
2) Healthy, Thriving Children
3) Positive Youth Development
4) Caring Communities
These goals are designed to address the Oregon Benchmarks, measures that provide the State a long-range perspective on how we are doing in solving Oregon's economic, social and environmental problems.
Local commissions report their results to OCCF through the Fiscal, Monitoring and Outcomes Reporting System (FMORS), an Internet database housing information on outcome results of local programs. OCCF provides ongoing training of local commission staff and service providers to help them target and choose outcomes and to stress the importance of outcome measurement.
For further information on Accountability or to access the FMORS database, please click on the following links:
Accountability
FMORS Database
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