Collaborative Courts in Washington are now collecting more data than ever before! The resources below will guide to through some processes to make changes, starting with this year’s Just Data January materials.
Just Data January
Just Data January 2024 is here to teach you about how to increase program enrollment using data and collaborative decision making. Click on the button below to learn about drop off analysis, change management, and tools for having hard conversations.
Telling your Story with Data
Family Treatment Courts are not a well-known entity outside of the dependency courts, but there is a benefit to having the community know about the work you are doing – voters and local leaders, community stakeholders, and service providers all read local news. Writing an occasional news release will help the public see the essential work you are doing. Here is a wikihow article with a basic framework for writing a news release and here is a recent example written by AOC’s communication team. When you write a release, please send it along to us at AOC as well, we’d be happy to put it up on our website! Some other ways of telling your story include sharing your data with national teams (like CFF or Casey Families), spreading the word using flyers, pamphlets, or other printed materials in court to parents, attorneys, and court professionals, or sending out newsletters or reports to stakeholders. We’ve put together a few resources and examples below for you to check out!
Making Changes
You’ve collected data that points to a problem – how can you make changes to improve these statistics?
Check out these examples and tools to guide you on Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) as you problem-solve the issues your data shows are the most pressing.
If you aren’t sure where to get started, put in a technical assistance request with the FTC Team at AOC and we will help point you in the right direction.
Sustainability
Hoping to get a grant to help fund your FTC? Many funders ask for data in grant applications
Here is an example of a grant application recently released by the Indian Health Service for the Behavioral Health Integration Initiative (BH2I). The details of the grant are available here: Federal Register :: Behavioral Health Integration Initiative
- This grant application asks for a detailed description of data collection plans and practices (See Part D: Performance Assessment and Data).
- Part E: Evaluation Plan includes a request for the types of data and metrics that will be evaluated. This includes questions related to the outcomes of the program.
Once you have a grant, you will be required to submit project data such as:
- Number of participants served
- Number of participants served by different types of services
- Percentage of participants who graduated from the program
- Average time in out-of-home placement
See more of the project data we are asked to report as Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) grant recipients here: Family Drug Court Program Performance Measures (ojp.gov)
