Continuous Quality Improvement Resources

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

Webinar covers how advisory boards can support efforts to improve. This session featured three grant recipient teams who use advisory boards for improvement, among other uses. Presentations focus on a youth council, a stakeholder group with key partners, and a team of community fathers and other leaders. 

Tip sheet provides an overview of the Bright Spots approach, a tool that can be used to support strategy development. The tip sheet also includes a matrix that presents advantages and disadvantages of methods for identifying bright spots, a collaborative activity to identify success factors with staff, and an interview template to learn more about practices used by bright spots. 

Webinar reviews the bright spots method that was first shared in the January 2024 session. The February session included a Mural activity to learn about bright spots across grants.

Webinar covered the Bright Spots approach, a tool that supports strategy development within CQI efforts. In using this method, teams identify high-performing sites or staff, and then interview staff to learn more about what they do.

Webinar features a grant recipient panel discussing practices for leveraging local evaluations to support CQI. 

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.

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.