"Outcomes Contracting Toolkit for Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs" is Now AvailableFunding from Family and Youth Services Bureau (FYSB) provides critical emergency shelter, basic needs, transitional living, skills training, and other supports. While this funding provides a critical set of resources, youth and young adults experiencing homelessness face a range of multifaceted needs and compounding barriers to self-sufficiency. RHY programs are forced to navigate multiple disjointed social service systems, creating additional burden or limiting the range of allowable services. Outcomes contracting is an effective way to break down silos and align public sector resources to programs that make a significant difference in communities. Outcomes contracting allows communities to focus on the more impactful changes that result from a program (outcomes), rather than its resources and activities (inputs and outputs). As a result of this focus, outcomes contracting creates the structure to bring together a diverse set of stakeholders around clear goals and increases accountability through funding mechanisms that incentivize providers to meet or exceed outcomes goals that will measurably improve the lives of people in need. This Outcomes Contracting Toolkit provides information, resources, and exercises on how RHY programs can work with government agencies and other stakeholders to develop the elements of an outcomes contract appropriate for supporting RHY programs in your community. This toolkit builds off existing tools, frameworks, and resources developed to support RHY programs; outlines the essential elements of an outcomes contract and demonstrates how each element ties to a finalized outcomes contract; uses exercises to guide RHY programs through key questions necessary to arrive at a project hypothesis that can be a launching pad for an outcomes contract; and calls out crucial considerations to inform participation in future applications for funds available through the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA) in conjunction with a state or local government. Access the toolkit here: |
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RHYTTAC is sponsored by the Family and Youth Services Bureau within the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.