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An important element – both to answering questions about progress, and providing feedback to staff, students, parents and other school stakeholders, is data. Therefore, it is important in the early stages of building a child safety framework to also think about the questions that need to be periodically answered, the data that need to be collected to answer those questions, and opportunities and methods to measure quality, improvement, and outcomes. Some questions – among others – that might help frame your thought process about data collection and analyses are:
In short, sustaining the significant accomplishment of establishing a child abuse prevention framework requires more than just implementing it. It requires an ongoing commitment to continuously assess the efficacy of what has been accomplished and to regularly communicate progress and outcomes to all elements of the school community.
The website of the Child Welfare Information Gateway has a comprehensive list of evaluation methodologies, including some state and local examples, on its page entitled Tools for Evaluating Prevention Programs. 175 The Safe Kids Thrive website also provides guidance on program Analysis, Review, and Self-Audits: Collecting Data 176 that also includes a section on Incorporating Training Programs into Organizational Culture 177 as well as a sample data collection tool.
175 https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/preventing/evaluating/tools/
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