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Monitoring your Outcomes and Impact

These pages provide access to outcome monitoring tools that YIACS may wish to use and guidance on how to monitor outcomes.

Youth Access resources:

Youth Advice Outcomes Toolkit

Following successful pilots, Youth Access will be launching a new version of our Youth Advice Outcomes Toolkit in Autumn 2010, alongside guidance, an independent evaluation report and a briefing on the outcomes and impact of youth advice. If you are a Youth Access member and are keen to use our new toolkit in the meantime, please contact James Kenrick.

Outcome Monitoring in YIACS (2003)

Training Pack and supporting resources for YIACS managers on outcome monitoring produced as a resource for a Youth Access Co-ordinators' Training Course.

External resources:

Young Persons CORE

A clinical outcome routine evaluations tool, 2007.

Youth Access members and young people have been consulted on the use of this tool.

YPCORE Beta Tool

Guidelines

The Health of the Nation Outcome Scales for Children and Adolescents

HoNOSCA is a routine outcome measurement tool used to assess children and young people with mental health problems. Includes guidance on use and measurement.

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Questionnaires for self-completion by young people aged 11-16, depending on their level of understanding and literacy.

Questionnaire

Scoring Instructions

Follow Up Self Assessment

Getting Good Results: Quality of Outcomes Resource Pack (QDI, 2003)

A resource pack for advice agencies wanting to measure their outcomes.

Impact Assessment and Advice Work (ADP, 2003)

A discussion paper written for advice agencies.

Explaining the difference your project makes – A guide to using an outcome approach (BLF, 2006)

This is a Big Lottery Guide to its outcome funding approach. The guide sets out some of the main steps that you will have to take to plan and manage a project. The guide will be useful for a wide range of applicants, but it is primarily aimed at those who are new to the outcomes approach and want to find out more.