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View Outcomes for Each Focus Area
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The Children’s Board evaluates the impact of the services provided to children and families in four focus areas:
Children Are Healthy and Safe
The primary goal of Children Are Healthy and Safe is to improve overall community health by supporting pregnant women to seek prenatal care, postpartum support, and care for children as they grow.
Children Are Developmentally on Track
The primary goal of Children Are Developmentally on Track is the early identification of children with special needs through developmental screening and referral linkages.
Children Are Ready to Learn and Succeed
The primary goal of Children Are Ready to Learn and Succeed is to support children who are getting ready to enter Kindergarten and provide the necessary resources throughout their school years.
Family Support
The primary goal of Family Support is to assist families in attaining services that increase formal and informal supports to improve their overall stability and security.
The Children’s Board developed this Outcomes Menu to support organizations in selecting meaningful, measurable outcomes that align with their program goals. This menu includes the outcomes for each of our key focus areas, along with information on applicable target populations, the outcome types, and recommended measures to help guide your selection.
By exploring the menu, you can identify which outcomes are the best fit for your program’s activities, objectives, and intended impact. The menu is designed to be both flexible and informative, offering a range of options to accommodate different program models while supporting shared accountability and learning.
On this site, you’ll also find guidance on how to use the outcomes menu effectively and why selecting the right outcomes is essential for tracking progress, demonstrating success, and contributing to community-wide impact.
At the Children’s Board, we believe strong programs are built through reflection, learning, and collaboration. That’s why we work closely with our funded partners to review performance each year and use outcome data to strengthen services. Measuring outcomes helps programs understand how well their services are working and the difference they’re making for the children and families they serve.
When a program selects outcomes from the menu, it begins a collaborative process with Children’s Board staff to develop a clear plan/matrix for tracking and assessing results. This plan helps programs examine whether services are being delivered as intended, who is being reached, and what changes are being achieved. It also serves as a foundation for ongoing conversations about program goals, areas for improvement, and long-term impact.
We use a Results-Based Accountability™ approach to guide this work, centered on three key questions: How much did we do? How well did we do it? Is anyone better off? These questions help programs focus on the quantity of services provided, the quality of delivery, and the outcomes participants experience. Whether it’s tracking the number of families served, levels of satisfaction, or improvements in skills, behaviors, or well-being, this framework ensures programs have meaningful data to inform decisions, improve services, and tell a clear story about their impact.