Continuous Quality Improvement Resources

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

Tip sheet covers considerations for generating data-informed targets for your program’s improvement goals and key activities.

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.

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 questions to help your team make decisions about next steps at two critical decision points in the CQI cycle – after the road test and at the end of a CQI cycle. It includes different paths based on how your team responds to key questions.

Webinar covers how to use your logic model to be more data-driven in guiding CQI efforts. This session presents the logic model as a practical tool in supporting CQI. It included a grantee presentation focusing on how one team identified and broke down a key challenge to support improvement.

Tip sheet covers considerations for scaling and/or sustaining an improvement strategy after a CQI cycle concludes. It includes recommendations for reflecting on the key aspects of the strategy; formalizing the strategy to share with others; and creating a plan for scaling and sustainability.

Webinar covered considerations for sustaining gains from a successful CQI effort. It presents three steps that support sustaining outcomes post-testing. These steps include reflecting on learning; formalizing your improvement strategy; and planning for scaling and sustainability.

Tip sheet shares a tool that grantees can use to synthesize findings across data sources in a road test. This matrix tool is useful for organizing insights by key learning questions.

Webinar covered considerations for monitoring improvement following the implementation of a strategy. It covers the three types of measures that are helpful for assessing the success of a strategy, and introduces run charts as a useful visualization tool for monitoring improvement.