Tools
Self-assessments, check lists, printable summaries or diagnostic tools, and other help available for users of the site:
Strategy Tools
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Strategy selection tool:
Criteria for selecting strategies to achieve the results identified for the jurisdiction.
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Juvenile detention forecasting
tool
:
Urban Institute’s calculator for forecasting future juvenile detention population.
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Budget Calculator:
A tool to calculate family budgets developed by the Economic Policy Institute.
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Family Economic Self-Sufficiency Resources:
Provides resources and technical assistance to state and local organizations to implement policies and programs that help low-income families achieve economic self-sufficiency.
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Family Resource Simulator:
Illustrates the impact of “work supports”—such as earned income tax credits and child care assistance, developed by the National Center for Children in Poverty.
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EITC Interactive:
Shows how proposed expansions to the EITC would benefit taxpayers in individual states, metropolitan areas and selected cities around the nation, developed by Brookings Institute.
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Food Stamp tool kit:
Includes numerous resources for elected officials, from outreach ideas to a sample op-ed to press releases, developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
· Early Childhood System Self-Assessment: A tool developed by the National Governor's Association.
Financing Tools
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Financing assessment
tools
:
A self-assessment of various financing strategies, developed by the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute.
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Budgeting checklist:
A guide to maximizing federal funding, returns on investment and reinvestment opportunities.
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Budgeting Questions:
A tool for assessing budgeting decisions based on demonstrated results and performance.
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Results Accountability Budgeting:
Tools and examples of using a results-based approach to budgeting.
Accountability Tools
· A statewide accountability system: Virginia Performs, created by the Council on Virginia’s Future, is a performance leadership and accountability system.
· Executive branch self assessment:
A results-focused tool for Governors and advisors to monitor the implementation of strategies.
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Executive branch self assessment score sheet:
A score sheet for Governors to quantify the successful implementation of strategies.
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Template for Legislative Hearings
: A results accountability format developed and implemented by the Appropriations Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly.
· Legislative hearing
performance accountability questions
:
A performance-based monitoring tool for legislators to use during hearings, developed by the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute.
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Legislative hearing
results accountability questions :
A results-focused monitoring tool for legislators to use during hearings, developed by the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute
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11 things a
legislator can do :
Guidelines for holding a results-focused hearing, developed by the Fiscal Policy Studies Institute.
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Results Scorecard:
Assesses performance by aligning indicators of community well-being and performance measures, developed by the Results Leadership Group.