The Development of Specialist Programs to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People
Overall Objectives
To support organizations in developing their programs for children and young people, to achieve excellent outcomes. With a clear understanding of your organization's primary task we will identify the necessary improvements to develop your programs.
Outcomes and Benefits
- Improvements in the organization's understanding of an outcomes based approach and alignment between the organization's activity and objectives. This might include the need to clearly define the specialist program in writing and provide relevant training.
- The development of a coherent outcomes based model, including clarity on how outcomes will be measured and reported.
- The development of an assessment tool, which will measure children’s progress in achieving outcomes and identify areas of need for further work.
- Alignment of programs with the organization's short and long term strategic goals.
- Specific areas of improvement in operational performance leading to higher quality standards and better outcomes.
- These identified improvements will improve the quality of organizational performance, cost efficiency and outcomes.
- A successful handover at the end of the consultancy service with the option of further support during the implementation period.
This service is most relevant for organizations providing specialist and therapeutic programs to children, young people and families, including those,
- who have behavioral difficulties and/or are emotionally disturbed.
- whose development has been disrupted and delayed.
- who are in foster care or residential care.
- Whose intention is to have the highest quality and most coherent specialist programs based on the achievement of positive outcomes.
- That are aiming to reduce costs through the reduction of unnecessary activity that adds little value to the quality and outcomes of its programs.
- Who aim to demonstrate the quality and outcomes of their programs more clearly to their funders.
- Who intend to be leading their sector through the achievement of excellent outcomes and continuous improvement.
Format and Approach of Consultancy Service
We design our consultancy service to suit your organizational requirements, including all or any of the following:
- Work in collaboration with the organization to identify objectives and the focus of the consultancy, including targets, timescales and costs.
- Evaluate the present situation by gathering facts and discussions both formal and informal with relevant staff and where appropriate the service user.
- Provide a report outlining a strategy for improvement – for discussion and agreement before implementation.
- Work with the organization to implement the strategy, providing direct involvement as appropriate.
- Consultation and support to enable the organization to take charge of the strategy.
- Review and handover.
- Any further consultation to support the change as agreed.
For organizations who are interested in developing Specialist Programs we will carry out a Feasibility Study to evaluate the potential value of such a development for the organization.
To download the following document click on the link below.
Further details of the PTA Feasibility Study
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Contact us if you are interested in this service and have any questions.