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Step 1: Get Organized

Activity 4: Review State Priorities and How They Correspond to the CSHCN Core Outcomes.

Prioritize Core Outcomes

The last guideline of Step 1 involves prioritizing core measures. During the first meeting, the State Leadership Team reviews their state's priorities identified in state plans and needs assessments to determine how they correspond to the CSHCN performance measures.

Teams must be clear about their goals in implementing the Assessment to Action Process. For example, an organization may decide to collect data to (a) guide program planning and improve services, or (b) increase consumer and partner awareness of CSHCN issues and importance of collaboration.

Prioritizing core outcomes allows the State Leadership Team to adhere to a focused work plan and not get drawn off task. The state Title V Block Grant can be used to help identify state priorities. For example, some states developed state performance measures in their Block Grant that emphasized critical components of the core measures.

Sample Agenda

A sample agenda for an initial meeting to implement Step 1 is available to download as a Word Document (10K) and is provided below for review.

 

Sample Agenda for Initial Meeting

Measuring and Monitoring Outcomes for Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN)

Sample Agenda for Initial Meeting

Step 1: Get Organized

Date:

Time:

Location:

Attendees:

Meeting purpose:

  • Identify goals/objectives related to the national core outcomes for CSHCN
  • Begin a planning discussion on how to measure and monitor progress toward achieving these outcomes

Agenda

  1. Welcome and Introductions
  2. Overview of the M&M Project
    • Project description/experience
    • What is Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI)?
  3. Overview of Healthy People 2010
    • Core Measures for CSHCN
    • Discussion: How do state's goals and objectives relate to these outcomes?
    • Prioritize: Which common goals and objectives are most important?
  4. M&M Process from Assessment to Action
    • State Leadership Team
    • Data Subcommittee
    • Timeframe
  5. Group Discussion: Available data sources related to the outcomes for CSHCN
    • CSHCN data sources
    • Other state data sources
    • National data sources
  6. Next steps
    • Formalize a Data Subcommittee to review current data
    • Schedule next meeting

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