The Task Force for a Healthy Nevada is committed to demonstrable results. To this end, the Task Force allocated a small percentage of funding to evaluate its grants programs to improve health care for children and disability services, and an evaluation plan was developed. The evaluation plan will help answer many important questions over the next five years, such as:

• Who are the customers served by Task Force grants?
• What are some of the lessons learned by grantees?
• What systemic or policy changes have come about as a result of the funded programs?
• What can the Task Force or State do to assist grantees in being successful?

In partnership with the Task Force, grantees will be critical to collecting the data necessary to answer these questions. To assist grantees, a variety of evaluation tools will be designed. In addition, technical assistance will be available to assist with using reporting tools and selecting "Uniform Measures." Uniform Measures are used to tell how well a program, agency, or service system is working in achieving the desired results. For example, if your goal is the early detection of oral health disease, one of your Uniform Measures might be "percent of children diagnosed with oral health disease who have access to appropriate dental care including education, prevention, and treatment."

Once Uniform Measures are selected by grantees, the tools they elect to use to report on their progress toward improving Uniform Measures are optional. Grantees will report on Uniform Measures quarterly and with an annual report that includes fourth-quarter and cumulative data for the 12-month period.

Note that the Evaluation Plan was created based on the "Results-Based Accountability Model." To learn more about this model, go to http://www.raguide.org.

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