You may want to provide on going technical assistance for data collectors to answer questions, or to schedule follow-up trainings to address problems or concerns. Finally, whenever you collect information on the children or families in your program, you must be sure to protect their confidentiality. Develop a procedure for keeping data collection instruments and other confidential materials safe to ensure that people who are not authorized to work with your data do not have access to it. In the next issue of Making it Count, we'll discuss what to do with all of the data you are collecting - that is, data analysis and reporting. A Workbook for Practitioners, United Way of Massachusetts Bay, 2000.
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