Preparing a Community Progress Report

Minnesota family service collaboratives are encouraged to report on the status of their community on a core set of outcomes and performance indicators as part of a community progress report. Ideally, this report would be issued annually and include year-to-year trend data related to each indicator. This is a resource to help family service collaboratives with their outcome-focused reporting. This monograph includes the following sections: (1) Overview of a collaborative data-based decision making process; (2) Core outcomes and indicators (for both family service collaboratives and children’s mental health); (3) Planning steps for producing an annual community progress report; (4) A bare-bones model report.