Results-Based Accountability helps us turn the curve to a healthier community.
CBEL utilizes Results-Based Accountability to create measurable change in our neighborhoods. RBA is data-driven, starting from an end goal and working backward to determine what steps need to be met along the way.
The CBEL RBA Committee is comprised of Collaborative members who are given additional support from industry-specific partners like Curandi, PacificSource, Marion & Polk Early Learning Hub, and the Salem-Keizer School District. The group uses “scorecards” to plan and track progress. You can view the scorecard for each CBEL outcome below.
Results-Based Accountability
Scorecards
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Over the course of 2019, regional stakeholders and local leaders convened to conduct a region-wide Marion-Polk Community Health Needs Assessment (CHA) using an evidence-based process to comprehensively collect and assess current data and trends. The primary trend identified through the comprehensive, multi-sector data analysis was the increasing unmet housing need, perceived to be due to lack of availability and lack of affordability, for both renting and owning. Secondary trends were the increasing unmet need for mental health and substance abuse treatment and support, increasing rates of sexually transmitted diseases, increasing cost of healthcare, and increasing tensions around immigration and immigration policy (CHA, 2019).
Since FFY 2018, the incidence rate of inadequate housing has only increased. According to recent studies of more than 10,000 of Marion and Polk counties’ most vulnerable youth, the #1 reason preventing all children from living in a safe, stable, nurturing home, was lack of appropriate and affordable housing (InCK, 2021).
According to the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the top causes of homelessness are insufficient income and poverty; lack of affordable housing; foreclosures; for women: domestic violence is the leading cause of homelessness; mental illnesses; and substance abuse (January 2015). A moratorium preventing housing evictions ended 12/31/21 which may affect a family’s ability to remain in safe, stable housing—the need to focus on child and family homelessness is an increasingly great, primary priority in achieving the quality-of-life outcome that every child grows up in a safe, stable, nurturing home.
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Research shows that arriving prepared and “ready for kindergarten” is one of the most significant factors in predicting academic success and achievement, including in higher education, as well as successes later in life. The most upstream intervention lies within early childhood education and kindergarten preparedness to improve the quality-of-life outcome that every child succeeds in school.
Hallman children enter kindergarten scoring less than peers across Oregon. If nothing new or different is implemented to prepare children before they arrive, historic trends predict only 40% of kindergarteners will score as “ready”. A significant increase in children arriving ready for kindergarten is anticipated with an additional 100 Hallman children participating in kindergarten readiness programs and activities, specifically focusing on early literacy and engaging with Hispanic, Latino, and English Language Learner families.