Any topic (writer’s choice)
Results-Based Accountability (RBA) is a performance-based method designed to measure desired outcomes. please review the attached documents and complete the 7 RBA Questions for Community Populations Worksheet based on a social issue that you feel is a priority for community safety. I choose child abuse and neglect.
identify a public policy at the federal, state, and local level that corresponds with this topic. For example; Education, Affordable Housing, Access to Reproductive Health Services, Transportation, Environmental Justice, Police Reform, Free and Open Access to Wifi.
1. What are the quality of life conditions we want for children, adults, families who live in our community? (Results)
2. What would these conditions look like if we could see them?
3. How can we measure these conditions? (Indicators)
4. How are we doing on these most important measures? What does the trend line data tell us?
Is the trend line better, worse or the same?
What does the trend line tell us about the disparities related to race, ethnicity, income, gender or geography?
What is the story behind the data? Which factors are pushing down or pushing up the trend line? Why are these factors?
5. Who are the partners that have a role to play in doing better? Which partners are contributing now and which partners are needed?
6. What works to do better including no-cost low cost ideas? (Strategies) Which strategies based on evidence, practice or experience are powerful enough to change the trend line
7. What do we propose to do? What actions can we take as a group? How can we align our actions? What can each person contribute?
