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Project Evaluation

The main purpose of the Evaluation Task Group is to hold the MHTP accountable to its intended outcomes, and to provide information useful to managing the initiative. The Evaluation Task Group also helps to ensure accountability to SAMHSA for the performance and outcomes of the grant.

Evaluation of the MHTP is overseen by a diverse team that includes adult and youth consumers as well as researchers and representatives of state agencies and provider organizations. The Evaluation Team has established a mission that emphasizes five goals for the evaluation:

1. To evaluate the overall success of mental health transformation efforts in Washington State, including improvement in targeted outcomes
2. To evaluate new and/or innovative programs funded or inspired as a result of transformation
3. To "shine a spotlight" on the Washington mental health system, including conducting studies of current functioning and needs and disseminating results of evaluation and research projects with relevance to mental health transformation
4. To support consumer, family, and youth organizations to conduct evaluations
5. To provide a central source of "peer review" for all MHTP-related evaluation and research

The evaluation is guided by a logic model that is used to review MHTP goals, activities, and outcomes, and to guide decisions around evaluation priorities.

Reports Produced by the MHTP Evaluation Team

• Washington State Mental Health Needs Assessment and Resource Inventory - presented in 2006 to the Mental Health Transformation Work Group.
• Using Data, Transforming Practice: Evaluating Mental Health Transformation in Washington State - A summary of the work of the Evaluation Team, presented at the 2008 National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Conference, held in Arlington, Virginia.

Additional Iinformation Related to Evaluation Goals

• Evaluation of Washingonton's Mental Health Transformation Project implementation and outcomes
• Studies of current mental health system functioning and needs
• Evaluation of individual policies, initiatives, and programs
• Consumer, Youth, and Family Evaluation Mini-grants program
• The Evaluation Team

 

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