A Building Bridges Initiative Tip Sheet: Evaluating and Improving Outcomes for Youth Who Have Received Residential Services

“This tip sheet focuses on longer term, post-program youth and family functional outcome measures, as distinguished from process, performance, and client experience/satisfaction measures that help us learn how specific aspects of an individual program are
working.”

Program evaluation is an essential component of any change effort. It is important for implementation teams to be able to access data on outcomes as a result of implementation efforts, and then use outcome data in a meaningful way for continued improvement and sustainment.