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
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
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
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