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3. Lessons Learned From Other Policy Domains
Pages 25-29

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... Department of Health and Human Services, MCHB administers Title V of the Social Security Act, enacted by Congress in 1935. Title V is the oldest existing federal-state partnership, providing funds through the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant as well as through other programs.
From page 26...
... This diverse and sizeable team determined a set of core performance measures states could use to show the progress of their maternal and child health programs. The MCHB committee initially struggled over whether to start the process from the top down by setting national goals and then arraying state performance measures under them, or to start from the bottom up by amassing examples of performance measures from state maternal and child health programs as well as from academia, professional associations, and institutions and then developing national goals that reflected those measures.
From page 27...
... According to Gilda Lambert, associate commissioner of FYSB, the FYSB began the process of establishing youth development performance measures in 1997. Because the types of organizations that receive FYSB funds vary widely in size and scope, developing measurements feasible for all represented a formidable task.
From page 28...
... One is determining how to balance desirable outcomes for young people with what programs actually offer so they can fairly be held accountable for specific outcomes. She emphasized the benefits of bringing youth-serving organizations into the performance measures development process to find common ground and to focus on positive youth development.
From page 29...
... She pointed out that performance measures that are feasible in a block grant program are going to be very different than what's appropriate in, for example, Head Start where there is much closer reporting and accountability. (See Chapter 4 for a discussion of Head Start performance standards.)


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