Benchmarks Workgroup
Co-Chairs, Amy Starin, Beth Hanselman Staff: Karen VanLandeghem
History: The Benchmarks Workgroup provides leadership and guidance to the Illinois Children’s Mental Health Partnership and its member agencies in developing a Children’s Mental Health Indicators Initiative. The Initiative is designed to identify a core set of cross-system indicators related to children’s social and emotional development and mental health that will be measured, tracked and reported on over time by key programs in multiple child-serving systems including education, child care, mental health, primary care, juvenile justice, child welfare, and Early Intervention. Current Activities: The Workgroup is developing a plan for advancing the Initiative that considers but is not limited to:
- which selected benchmarks to measure across systems
- how to build upon existing efforts within the state to track and measure child mental health outcomes
- how to integrate existing child focused data systems in the state, where relevant and feasible
- how to finance and sustain these child measurement efforts
- key steps and strategies for implementing the initiative.
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