When agents of change go to extraordinary lengths to facilitate collaboration among mental health and criminal justice stakeholders, which leads to the development of new and exciting initiatives to improve the systems' response to people with mental illness, it is essential that they measure and evaluate the impact of these efforts. Too often, policymakers exhaust time and resources planning and implementing a new program, policy, or statute without taking the steps to ensure that they will know the results of the initiative. By then, administrators need additional resources to sustain the initiative, yet appropriators are insisting upon some evidence describing the impact of the program before authorizing the expenditure of additional funds. continue...
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Introduction: Measuring and Evaluating Outcomes
Policy Statement 44: Identifying Outcome Measures
Policy Statement 45: Collecting Data
Policy Statement 46: Disseminating Findings
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