health on independence, participation and wellbeing health on independence, participation and wellbeing physical health to support independence, participation and wellbeing health to support independence, participation and wellbeing independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of poor mental health, wellbeing and self-care on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor mental health, wellbeing and self-care on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving mental health, wellbeing and self-care to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term mental health, wellbeing and self-care to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing mental health, wellbeing and to support independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of poor personal and family safety on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor personal and family safety on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving personal and family safety to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term personal and family safety to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing personal and family safety to support independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of poor development on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor development on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving development to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term development to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing development to support independence, participation and wellbeing & Significant negative impact of poor community participation and networks on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor community participation and networks on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving community participation and networks to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate community participation and networks to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing community participation and networks to support independence, participation and wellbeing
Significant negative impact of poor family functioning on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor family functioning on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving family functioning to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate family functioning to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing family functioning to support independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of poor financial resilience on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of poor financial resilience on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving financial resilience to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term financial resilience to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing financial resilience to support independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of lack of material resources on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of lack of basic material resources on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards stability in meeting basic material needs to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term basic material resources to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing basic material resources to support independence, participation and wellbeing Significant negative impact of lack of employment on independence, participation and wellbeing Moderate negative impact of lack of employment on independence, participation and wellbeing Progress towards improving employment to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate short-term employment to support independence, participation and wellbeing Adequate ongoing employment to support independence, participation and wellbeing & Significant negative impact of lack of engagement with education and training on independence, Moderate negative impact of lack of engagement with education and training on independence, Progress towards improving engagement with education and training to support independence, Adequate short-term engagement with education and training to support independence, Adequate ongoing engagement with education and training to support independence, participation and wellbeing
confidence and to take empowerment of their personal situation—and the activities to exercise choice and control Engagement with relevant support services - Engagement with support services: Selected where the funded activity is seeking to improve a client’s engagement with services to support their independence, participation and wellbeing. Impact of immediate crisis - Impact of immediate crisis: Selected where the funded activity is seeking to address or reduce the impact of an immediate crisis to improve the client’s independence, participation and wellbeing 4.2 Goal Likert scale Table 4 outlines the updated definitions for the five-point Likert scale used to report changes in client goals. 4: Goal SCORE Likert scale SCORE outcome domain 1 2 3 4 5 No progress in achieving outcome Outcome fully achieved Knowledge and access to information No progress in increasing access to information and knowledge in areas relevant to clients’ needs and circumstances Limited progress to date in achieving information / knowledge - but emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving information / knowledge goals - but strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving information / knowledge goals Full achievement of goals related to increasing access to information and knowledge in areas relevant to client’s needs and circumstances Skills No progress in increasing skills in areas relevant to clients’ needs and circumstances Limited progress to date in achieving skills goals—but emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving skills strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving skills goals Full achievement of goals related to increasing skills in areas relevant to client’s needs and circumstances Behaviours No progress in changing behaviours in areas relevant to client’s needs and circumstances Limited progress to date in achieving behaviour goals—but emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving behaviour strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving behaviour goals Full achievement of goals related to changing behaviours in areas relevant to client’s needs and circumstances Confidence Empowerment, choice and control to make own decisions No progress in increasing confidence and exercising choice / control in making decisions that Limited progress to date in achieving empowerment, choice and control emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving empowerment, choice and control goals —but strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving choice and control goals Full achievement of goals related to increasing confidence and exercising choice / control in making decisions that impact client’s needs but but
impact client’s needs Engagement with relevant support services No progress in increasing engagement with support services relevant to client’s and circumstances Limited progress to date in achieving engagement goals—but emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving engagement strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving engagement goals Full achievement of related to increasing engagement with support services relevant to client’s needs and circumstances Impact of immediate crisis No progress in reducing the negative impact of the immediate crisis Limited progress to date in achieving goals to reduce the negative impact—but emerging engagement Limited progress to date in achieving goals to reduce the negative strong engagement Moderate progress to date in achieving goals to reduce the negative impact Full achievement of goals related to reducing the negative impact of the immediate crisis 5. Changes to Community 5.1 Community domains Updates to the naming, definition and of Community outcome domains have been made to better reflect the contemporary policy and program environment. A summary of the rationale for the changes is presented in Table 5. Table 5: Community SCORE domains Existing Domain Description of change Changes (existing or new) domain Group / community knowledge, skills, behaviours Minor wording change for consistent formatting of domain definitions New references to changing attitudes – to cover activities that promote or commemorate important aspects of Australian society (such as cultural diversity or historical events) Group / community knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours: Selected where the funded activity is seeking to work with a group of clients or community members (where it is not feasible to record the changes for individual members of the group or community) to improve their knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours (e.g. changing knowledge / skills to better meet own needs; changing attitudes to important aspects of Australian society) Organisation’s knowledge, skills and practices Minor wording change for consistent formatting of domain definitions Organisational knowledge, skills and practices: Selected the funded activity is seeking to work with organisations to improve their knowledge, skills and practices to better respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities Community structures and networks to wording change for consistent formatting of domain definitions Community infrastructure and networks: Selected where the funded activity is but
respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities seeking to work in the community to improve community infrastructure, facilities and networks to better respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities - New domain to cover funded activities that work with individuals, groups and community members in promoting a sense of belonging and inclusion (such as harmony projects and addressing the threats of radicalisation of vulnerable segments of the community). The outcome focus for the domain is on building social cohesion and community harmony. Social cohesion: Selected where the funded activity is seeking to work in the community to promoting a sense of belonging and inclusion in Australian society to improve social cohesion and community harmony for targeted clients / communities 5.2 Community Likert scale Table 6 outlines the updated definitions for the five-point Likert scale used to report changes in community outcomes. Table 6: Community SCORE Likert scale SCORE outcome domain 1 2 3 4 5 No change Significant change Group / community knowledge, skills, attitudes behaviours No change in knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours Limited change in knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours emerging engagement Limited change in knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours strong engagement Moderate change in knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours Significant positive change in knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviours Organisational knowledge, skills and practices No change in organisational knowledge, skills, practices to respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities Limited change in organisational knowledge, skills, practices - emerging engagement Limited change in organisational knowledge, skills, practices —but strong engagement Moderate change in organisational knowledge, skills, practices Significant positive change in organisational knowledge, skills, behaviours to better respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities Community infrastructure and networks No change in community infrastructure / networks to respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities Limited change in community infrastructure / networks —but emerging engagement of community networks Limited change in community infrastructure / networks - strong engagement of community networks Moderate change in community infrastructure / networks Significant positive change in community infrastructure / networks to better respond to the needs of targeted clients / communities Social cohesion No change in demonstration of greater community cohesion and social harmony Limited change in demonstration of greater community cohesion and social harmony - but emerging engagement in issues Limited change in demonstration of greater community cohesion and social harmony - stronger engagement in issues Moderate demonstration of greater community cohesion and social harmony Significant positive demonstration of greater community cohesion and social harmony