Turn the Curve Success Stories
Case Studies
Turning the curve on 16 to 18 Year Olds Not in Education, Employment or Training(NEET) in Newcastle, UK: Sara Morgan-Evans, Local Connections Manager in Newcastle, UK describes her team's multi-year success using Outcome Based Accountability, working with other partners, to produce a significant reduction in this important measure of youth disengagement.
Turning the curve on Positive Youth Shelter Discharges from the Spectrum Youth and Family Services Homeless Shelter in Burlington, Vermont: Trine Bech, authored this paper summarizing the exceptional work of the shelter staff and residents using Results-Based Accountability methods to turn a declining trend in rate of positive exits for young people from the shelter. A key to their success was involvement of the youth themselves.
Turning Curves, Achieving Results : Five Annie E. Casey Foundation Fellows (Craig Levine, Molly McGrath, Brenda Donald, Dennis Campa and Yolie Flores Aguilar) describe their successes using Results-Based Accountability to measurably improve the well-being of children and families in Essex County, NJ, Chicago, IL, Washington, DC, San Antonio TX, and Los Angeles County, CA. Don't miss the inspiring introduction by Molly McGrath.
Baltimore Leadership in Action program
turns the curve on children ready for school in Baltimore City
MADD turns the curve on alcohol related traffic deaths.
Tillamook County turns the curve on the teen pregnancy rate.
Other Results-Based Accountability Success Stories
Contra Costa County
Children and Family Services Budget
relates county expenditures to community results.
Los Angeles County
Children’s Planning Council uses the power of outcomes and indicators from planning to budgets
County government organizes major
planning efforts around County-Wide Results
Maryland
Getting
to Results, Building a Prototype for Results-Based Accountability in Maryland:
Excerpt from Maryland 2001 Kids Count Factbook, by Phil Lee, University of Maryland
School of Public Affairs
Placer County
San Mateo County
Children's Summit Moves 350 Participants
from Talk to Action.
Santa Cruz County
County-wide data book is a powerful tool
for community change.
Missouri and Vermont
Building Senior Leadership Support
for Results-Based Accountability
A Dialogue Between Gary Stangler and Cornelius Hogan
See also the examples and stories in Trying Hard is Not Good Enough
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Websites with Turn the Curve Success Stories
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Performance Review
Maryland
Office of Children, Youth, and Families
Oregon
Commission on Children and Families
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