Learning Objectives: Apply lessons learned from Minnesota to their own state in the development or improvement of their reporting systems.
Abstract: Local tobacco program reporting is essential for accountability and documenting success at both the state and the local level. A well-designed system serves many different stakeholders simultaneously. At the state level, it serves as an accountability method for the funding organization as well as policy makers. At the local level, it serves as an accountability method, a program management tool, and a program evaluation tool.
Minnesota is developing a web-based reporting system to serve all of the various needs at both the state and local level. This system will be used as a program management tool by grantees and MDH grant managers alike as it collects program specific information about goals and objectives; program work plans; events and activities; and intermediate outcomes. The system will be individualized so that individual grantees see only their individual program information and enter this information so that they can link their activities to the progress of their work plan in achieving their specific goals and objectives.
In addition, the reporting system will be generic enough so that it can be easily adapted for other similar programs, and is being developed in collaboration with the Youth Risk Behavior program at the Minnesota Department of Health.
In this session, the process for developing this system will be presented and the content of this system will be unveiled. In addition, challenges and successes of developing this system will be presented.
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