Q&A
Measuring success of Family Enrichment Centers
2:07:37
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125 sec
Council Member Williams inquires about the metrics used to measure the success of Family Enrichment Centers (FECs). Deputy Commissioner Liz Wolkomir explains that ACS is still developing their data collection methods for the expanding FEC program.
- The focus is on measuring protective factors that strengthen family well-being and prevent child maltreatment
- Current metrics include tracking FEC offerings and their alignment with protective factors
- Future goals include assessing outcomes and gathering family feedback on FEC effectiveness
- FECs are held accountable for co-designing programs with the community to meet specific local needs
Nantasha M. Williams
2:07:37
I just want because you mentioned FECs, and I was just wondering, like, what the metrics of success are for FECs.
2:07:44
Like, how are you measuring, like, whether or not they're doing what we all intended for them to do?
Jess Dannhauser
2:07:51
Yeah.
2:07:52
Liz, let's continue.
2:07:55
Yeah.
2:07:55
And then
Althea V. Stevens
2:07:56
we'll get
Liz Wolkomir
2:07:59
Yes.
2:07:59
No worries at all.
2:08:01
So I I wanna say first, transparently, you know, this is, an expansion that we are in the middle of.
2:08:07
So we are still building out how exactly we're gonna collect this information.
2:08:11
But the goal is to really look at the protective factors, meaning, like, those things that we know from evidence, strengthen the well-being of families and children and have the knock on effect of preventing child maltreatment.
2:08:27
And so those include social connectedness, access to concrete supports to include, you know, food, clothing, sort of, like, key essentials, but also access to trusted resources, and culturally competent resources, parental resilience, parental awareness of, child development and parenting skills.
2:08:53
And so, you know, we are we are looking at how to capture that.
2:08:58
What we're currently capturing is what are the offerings?
2:09:01
What is the programming, if you will, that each family enrichment center is offering?
2:09:05
And how is that linked to those protective factors.
2:09:07
We wanna get to the place where we are both, getting a pulse on, is that outcome really happening?
2:09:13
And, as importantly, do families feel like it's happening?
2:09:17
The other thing that we're really holding family enrichment centers accountable to that is core to the model, is that they need to be co designing with community because unlike a lot of other models that are here as sort of the specific prescription of the way a service should be provided, family enrichment centers are really all about putting community in front of, planning so that they are tailored to the needs and desires of that particular community.
