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What's New in Santa Fe
12/9/2014 - Turning the Curve with "Results-Based Accountability"
Posted by Joohee Rand on 01/12/2015
Over 150 nonprofit, school, City and State agency staff and funders in Santa Fe participated in the Results-based Accountability 101 Workshop with internationally renowned speaker and author Mark Friedman on December 9, 2014 at the Convention Center. The workshop was sponsored by Santa Fe Community Foundation, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center and the City of Santa Fe Youth and Family Services Division inviting the community for a day of learning and practical tools that will help all of us think, plan and work better and more effectively together in improving outcomes for children and families in Santa Fe. The full-day Workshop ended with "Turning the Curve" exercises where participants engaged in productive small group conversations. These discussions focused on population or performance accountability results and indicators, stories behind the curve, partners, and what would work to "turn the curve" on those indicators for the Santa Fe community.
Download other Workshop materials: 
- The Results-Based Accountability Guide
- RBA 101 Training Presentation Slides
- Data document used for Turn the Curve Exercise
- Photos from the Workshop including the Turning the Curve exercise reports from small groups here
- Press release about the event here (can you put the attached into the website and create the link?)
For more information about RBA, visit the website.
Brief Introduction on RBA (from the Results-Based Accountability Guide)
What is Results-Based AccountabilityTM?
Results-Based AccountabilityTM (“RBA”) is a disciplined way of thinking and taking action used by communities to improve the lives of children, families and the community as a whole. RBA is also used by agencies to improve the perform- ance of their programs.
How does RBA work?
RBA starts with ends and works backward, step by step, towards means. For communities, the ends are conditions of well-being for children, fami- lies and the community as a whole. For example: “Residents with good jobs,” “Children ready for school,” or “A safe and clean neighborhood” or even more specific conditions such as “Public spaces without graffiti,” or “A place where neighbors know each other.” For programs, the ends are how customers are better off when the program works the way it should. For example: The percentage of people in the job training program who get and keep good paying jobs.
Why use RBA?
RBA improves the lives of children, families, and communities and the performance of programs because RBA:
• gets from talk to action quickly;
• is a simple, common sense process that every- one can understand;
• helps groups to surface and challenge assumptions that can be barriers to innovation;
• builds collaboration and consensus; and
• uses data and transparency to ensure accountability for both the well being of children, fami- lies and communities and the performance of programs.
What do you think?
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