Continuous Quality Improvement Resources

This planning tool helps CQI teams guide and track their CQI efforts.

Webinar covers part 2 of a two-part series on data tracking to support CQI. It focuses on tracking activities to inform progress on short- and long-term improvement goals, including considerations for developing a useful data tracker.

Webinar covers part 1 of a two-part series on data tracking to support CQI. This session focuses on identifying long-term and interim goals and creating data-informed targets for them to define success.

Webinar covered activities to support user-centered strategy development. These included two empathy-focused activities – empathy mapping and journey mapping – to consider the needs of strategy “users” when designing for improvement. It also included an activity to foster collaborative strategy design with staff and/or partners called Round Robin.

Webinar covered recommendations for using an equity-focused CQI approach, which included being intentional about considering equity, enhancing inclusivity, and using data to explore and identify inequitable access and outcomes. The webinar presented tools and practices for enhancing intentionality, inclusion, and strategic data use.

Tip sheet covers considerations for applying the 4DX framework to CQI efforts. The framework offers four disciplines for helping teams to execute on key goals. This tip sheet summarizes content from three CQI office hours sessions in 2022 and 2023 that focused on aspects of 4DX and CQI.

Webinar covered tips for strengthening a data-driven culture in programs, with a focus on engaging frontline staff to use data to inform their work. Audience responses to several interactive questions related to data-driven practices are included.

Webinar covers low-burden data collection strategies to support CQI and includes suggestions.

Tip sheet covers considerations for developing learning questions to frame a road test and how to use them to reflect on road test results after the road test.

Tip sheet covers considerations for developing a comprehensive problem statement, a key step for defining a challenge at the start of an improvement effort. The resource also includes a worksheet to support grantees in developing a problem statement.