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The Canadian Outcomes Research Institute,

The Child Welfare League of Canada, and

The Centre of Excellence for Child Welfare Presents:

The 2007 Canadian Symposium of Child and Family Services Outcomes

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

February 5^th & 6^th, 2007

Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre

Vancouver, British Columbia

Background

Social and human services in Canada are very often delivered to the public through a wide range of agencies and organizations. These agencies are very frequently not-for-profit and charitable organizations that are increasingly contracted by governments, granting bodies, and private donors to implement specific community strategic initiatives. Simultaneously, calls for accountability for use of public and donor funds have created granting processes that include requirements to report outcomes or results achieved by agencies as evidence that funds are being used with the public’s best interest in mind.

In February 2003, a national symposium on outcome standards for child and family development took place in Ottawa with over 100 participants from every province and territory in Canada. The symposium was intended to bring together experts, service providers, and policy makers within the field to contribute their knowledge regarding outcome model development. It was hoped that the coming together of these groups would eventually contribute toward a national outcome model. The Child Welfare Indicator Matrix was forwarded as an exemplar for national model development and key formative criteria were identified by the end of the symposium.

The 2007 Vancouver Symposium

Since the first symposium, provinces, agencies, and professionals have spent considerable resources to apply outcome monitoring to their work. The 2nd symposium will again bring a collective knowledge regarding outcome model development, professional standards, and research. Professionals will be invited to forward evidence on successful child and family services interventions that have occurred since the last symposium. It will also be an opportunity to exhibit key processes required to identify results-based interventions and implications beyond merely collecting outcome evidence. The symposium will further invite the private sector (donors and foundations) to share their impressions about the direction of outcome and results-based information being forwarded among the donor philanthropic communities.

At the symposium an update on major provincial developments regarding outcomes and evidence practice in human services will be presented. Other presentations will explore how the accumulation of outcome evidence can impact on human services delivery. The symposium will include a presentation on a model for decision making that can be used for identifying best and promising practices. Various service exemplars that have a high degree of efficacy based both on research and applied evidence-based outcome information, will be presented. These will be related to exemplars that show promise with respect to social return on investment. The limits and implications of using an applied/evidence-based model will be discussed. Through these presentations, a process to identify “services that work” and strategies to disseminate this knowledge will be identified. It is hoped that the symposium will capture themes, strengths, and weaknesses of a national applied/evidence-based outcome model and contribute to further knowledge dissemination about outcomes within the human services field. .

Who Should Attend?

· Agency Executive Directors and Senior Managers

· Government Policy Makers

· Academic Professionals

· Major Canadian Private Donors and Philanthropists

AgWhat are the Expected Symposium Results?

The National symposium aims to establish a process and exemplars for applied and evidence-based outcomes for child and family services. Specifically, the symposium will need to achieve the following results:

1. 1. Awareness of key provincial work and major provincial trends in outcomes monitoring that have advanced outcomes and evidence-based practice since the previous symposium.

2. 2. Awareness of service models and exemplars based upon applied and evidence-based outcomes, including some service providers that have been able to apply or demonstrate service outcomes through the use of outcomes for their own services.

3. 3. Awareness of key directions among private donors, philanthropists, and private foundations in Canada regarding outcomes and evidence-based practice in the social services sector.

4. 4. A synthesis of common points by identifying the "state-of-the-art" in outcome measurement across Canada, including publishing these results in a symposium publication.

5. 5. Identification of standardized methodology and review techniques to identify high impact service interventions that also indicate “services that work.”

6. 6. Establishment of a collaborative framework identifying “services that work” for social policy development.

When will it Occur?

February 5^th & 6^th , 2007

Where will it Occur?

Simon Fraser University, Harbour Centre

515 West Hastings Street

Vancouver, British Columbia

What is the Cost?

The registration fee for early registration is $220 CAD per person plus GST for the two days session. Late registration is $330 plus GST. You are responsible for making your own travel and accommodation arrangements.

How do I Register?

Deadline for early registration is December 15^th, 2006. You can register on-line at:

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

To register in person please contact Registrar, Canadian Outcomes Research Institute at: (403) 699-8802, extension 221 or workshops@hmrp.net provide the following information:

· *Name of your organization

· *Name of the person attending

· *Contact e-mail address

Who do I make Payment to?

Cheques are to be made payable to Canadian Outcomes Research Institute (CORI) and mailed to:

Registrar

Canadian Outcomes Research Institute (CORI)

101-718 12th Avenue SW

Calgary AB T2R 0H7

What is the Cancellation Policy?

Registrants providing written notice of cancellation before December 31st will be given a refund, less a $75.00 administration fee. After that date, a substitute may attend in place of the registrant and refunds will not be provided.