1 option
Evaluation of the California Multi-County Full Service Partnership Innovation Project
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eberhart, Nicole K.
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- RAND Corporation 2024
- Summary:
- In 2020, an initial group of six counties began participating in the California Multi-County Full Service Partnership (FSP) Innovation Project, with goals of identifying a shared understanding of its core components, improving consistency across FSP programs, and developing or enhancing operational processes that are data-driven and outcome-oriented. Fresno, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Mateo, Siskiyou, and Ventura counties established a collaboration model that fostered peer learning and county cooperation to enhance FSP programs and to inform the design of FSP program innovations. This report describes the evaluation of the FSP Innovation Project. The authors' evaluation—covering the period directly following innovation implementation at the end of 2021 through 2023—had qualitative and quantitative components. The authors collected and analyzed data from semistructured, qualitative interviews with representatives from the participating counties and analyzed quantitative electronic health records and program data. Overall, there is evidence that the FSP Innovation Project led to improvements in processes and outcomes among the first cohort of participating counties. Counties worked with each other and a nonprofit to successfully implement standardized definitions, measures, guidelines, and processes necessary to improve program implementation. However, there was considerable variation in the extent to which innovations were implemented on the ground and sustained after the initial innovation development and implementation period was over. Nonetheless, the authors found evidence that FSP participants experienced improved outcomes in key areas, including stable housing, justice system involvement, and psychiatric hospitalizations, and that these improvements increased after counties participated in the FSP Innovation Project.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.