Project Evaluation
The evaluation of the Washington State Transformation Project will follow the
evaluation plan
originally submitted in Washington State's Grant proposal
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The planning activities of the first nine months of the grant
did not substantively altered the original plan and the primary components remain in place as originally
proposed. Although some minor revisions to components of the plan have been introduced to attain
efficiencies not apparent when the proposal was written, the approach remains essentially unchanged.
The text that follows outlines the evaluation plan for Washington's transformation, explaining these
minor revisions and describing the more detailed evaluation planning leading to the current version
of the evaluation plan.
As stated in the original proposal, the primary purpose of Partnerships for Recovery's evaluation will be to provide information useful to managing the Transformation and to hold those involved accountable to the outcomes specified in this proposal. Secondly, the evaluation has been designed to ensure accountability to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for performance and outcomes of the grant. The grant proposal stressed the following:
- The evaluation process will be consumer and family driven.
Consistent with the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, the evaluation plan for system transformation in Washington State ensures that both adult and youth consumers and their families play active roles. Through establishing a Consumer Evaluation Subcommittee and a Family Member Evaluation Subcommittee and through representation on all committees and workgroups, the input of consumers and family members will drive all facets of the evaluation process. - A transformed mental health system centers on development of an infrastructure that allows
consumers, family members and other stakeholders to monitor progress, evaluate outcomes, and assess
the need for mid-course corrections.
Implementing and sustaining large-scale changes in the way state and county agencies do business requires a multi-agency database and a capacity to use data to inform multiple stakeholders and guide implementation.
The above text is excerpted from Chapter 5 of the Mental Health Transformation Plan Phase I. To read all of Chapter 5, or the entire Plan, please refer to the Priority Reports page of this website.
