Your child’s forehead feels hot. You grab the digital thermometer from the cabinet knowing 98.6° represents a “normal” state. When the reading shows 101.2°, you know you must act. Similarly, a context is necessary to fully understand measured organizational outcomes. Benchmarking provides that vital context. Yet comparative benchmarks are difficult to come by in human services. The Alliance for Children and Families Benchmarking Initiative makes relevant, timely, and useful benchmark data available to help you derive greater meaning from your data.

Alliance for Children and Families National Benchmarking Initiative

The Alliance has embarked upon a national project to illuminate and enhance the work of our member organizations. In partnership with Behavioral Pathway Systems, a national leader in human services benchmarking, this initiative enables Alliance member organizations to learn from one another in ways never before possible.

Benchmarking provides a basis to learn valuable lessons from available data. By involving a community of organizations and establishing easily accessible benchmark information on a variety of topics and issues, the Alliance can help members learn more from their program data. The tools created through this project can bring about measurable impacts on the financial, operational, and clinical performance of members’ organizations.

Process Benchmarking

A key feature of this initiative is “process benchmarking,” which uses benchmarking data to identify potential best practices. This innovative approach enables participants to adopt new strategies to enhance their organization’s performance.

Targeted benchmarks are collected on 40 performance issues—listed below—selected by an Alliance workgroup guided by input from an online national interest survey.
Subscribers submit data online into a secure, encrypted database that is available around-the-clock and includes help messages and accuracy checks.

Unlimited Benchmarking Reports

Once data is submitted, users can generate unlimited benchmarking reports. The easy-to-understand reports detail a variety of measures. Peer group break-outs provide apples-to-apples comparisons. All data is summarized and reports are anonymous.

Register Now

To participate in the Alliance Benchmarking Initiative, fill out the online registration form

Questions?

For more information, or if you have questions, please contact Behavioral Pathway Systems at
877-330-9870 or help@bpsys.org.

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