How do you measure success?
April 30th, 2008 at 03:29pm Wally Haas
Once of the challenges of a project like 180 Degrees is how to decide whether the community is making progress.
There are numbers that can easily be tracked, graduation rates, unemployment, wages, etc, but do the numbers tell the real story?
For example, the stats may say the crime rate is down, but if your garage has been broken into twice in a month you probably wouldn’t care what the numbers said, you wouldn’t feel safe.
And on graduation rates, just because a kid graduates from high school doesn’t mean that kid is ready to join the work force.
So what do you think. What is the best way to measure success?
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1. Cathy Johnson | May 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 am
One aspect pf measuring success would be to track use of local social services. If, after implementation of any program designed to ameliorate a particular problem, use of services related to that problem continues to increase, or does not decrease, it might be difficult to call that program successful. If use is reduced, while it may not definitely prove success (correlation is not causality) it would be a good sign that\’ something\’s working. Rockford has a reputation of being a city with an abundance of services, but I\’m not sure that there\’s ever been a definitive study of how effective most of those services are. Maybe this is the time.
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