Home Visiting Direct

Early Childhood Home Visiting

Evaluation Tools

• Family Support Services Australia, Measuring Outcomes in Family Support : Practitioners' Guide
• Indicators of Social and Family Functioning (Australia)
• NSW Child Health Survey

Family Support Services Australia, Measuring Outcomes in Family Support : Practitioners' Guide

The following tools may be useful to family support services. There are many other tools required for other players. These tools have been developed on the basis that they will be used and modified by individual family support services to meet their needs. They have been developed on the following principles:

• The tool will be holistic
• The tool will be designed to monitor changes in individual clients and their circumstances - the point of comparison will be the client not a population standard
• The data from using the tool will also be able to show changes in groups of clients (eg clients participating in a new service model)
• The client should be involved in using the tools and reflecting on the information gathered.

Tool 1 Snapshot of Life - Client’s picture

This can be used early in service delivery, later in service delivery and on completion.

Tool 2 Snapshot of life - Worker’s picture

This can be used early in service delivery, later in service delivery and on completion.

Tool 3 Goals - Joint client and worker picture

This can be used jointly by the client and the worker during service delivery.

Tool 4 Service facts and figures

This is data gathered about the client (eg age, gender, type of family) and services provided (eg amount and frequency of service).

Tool 5 Snapshot of life (Long Version)

This can be used early in service delivery, later in service delivery and on completion. The data is much more detailed than Tool 1.

Tool 6 Service facts and figures (Long Version)

This is datMonday, May 8, 2006 10:38ices provided (eg amount and frequency of service). The data is more detailed than Tool 4.

Tool 7 Specific topics in service delivery or research

These tools could be used is a service wishes to explore a particular topic with a group of clients.

Topic 1 - Social capital

Topic 2 - Life's practicalities

Topic 3 - Life experiences and outlook

Topic 4 - Feelings about parenting

Topic 5 - Relationship with spouse

Topic 6 - Storybook reading

Topic 7 - Children

Topic 8 - Practical parenting

Topic 9 - Building strengths

Topic 10 - Significant life events

Topic 11 - Stress

Topic 12 - Participation in community organisations

Topic 13 - Information

Topic 14 - Beliefs about others

Topic 15 - Young person's experience (12 year old or older)

Topic 16 - Groups

Topic 17 - Family worker services

http://www.mapl.com.au/support/FSSA/OutcomesTools_1_to_4_V1.pdf

http://www.mapl.com.au/support/FSSA/OutcomesTools_5_to_6_V1.pdf

http://www.mapl.com.au/support/FSSA/OutcomesTools_7_V1.pdf

Indicators of Social and Family Functioning (Australia)

Zubrick SR, Williams AA, Silburn SR, Vimpani G. May 2000. Department of Family and Community Services

This report proposes a framework for indicators of social and family functioning centred on outcomes for child health and wellbeing. It introduces a new instrument for the measurement of indicators comprising a set of items and scales to derive indicators.

http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/VIA/issf/$File/full_report.pdf

NSW Child Health Survey

NSW Public Health Bulletin Supplement. Vol 13, No.s-3. September 2003.

This supplementary edition of the NSW Public Health Bulletin provides the results of the first NSW Child Health Survey conducted in 2001. Also included is the survey instrument.

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/phb/NSWChildHealthSurvey2001.pdf