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Introduction
The Matrix Outcomes Model provides a set of complimentary assessment, case management and evaluation tools. Jerry Endres has evolved the Matrix Model with community partners who continue to refine the language, structure, and guidelines of the tool as they apply it to their programs. Agencies using the Matrix Model usually have combinations of these program characteristics: they strive to be accessible, accountable for results, collaborative, community based, comprehensive, culturally sensitive, integrated, family focused, prevention focused, school linked, and tailored to individual, family and community needs, strengths and outcomes.
This website is designed to assist potential and current Matrix partners to understand and use the tool. Please select the topics in the side bar and explore the site.
What's New
- Three new publications in the Download Reports.
a) Wraparound Study Evaluation Report
b) Family Support Agencies Are Getting Good Outcomes
c) Elders and the Matrix Outcomes Model
- The Family Development
Matrix Pilot Project. This new 3-year
project is a collaborative effort to provide Family Resource
Centers and Family Support Agencies with an array of Matrix
Outcomes Model resources to better enable them to partner with
local Child Welfare agencies in the facilitation of better
outcomes for children and families.
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Also See
- On June 15-17, 2005 the Institute for Community Collaborative Studies (ICCS) and fourteen organizations from across the country co-sponsored the First Matrix Outcomes Conference. Read more and see the presentations!
- Slide Presentation offers an introduction
to Matrix tools including the Agency, Community, and Family Development
Models.
- Examples of Matrix Models showcases
the work of our community partners. These include programs in adoptions,
domestic violence, family resource centers, Girl Scouts, Head Start/Early
Head Start, pre-kindergarten reading readiness, multicultural community
development, student development, senior support, and long-term care.
Our Matrix Model is currently in over 100 program sites in California,
Nevada, Ohio, and Florida.
- The Family Development Matrix provides
measures of outcomes and is a strength-based case management tool.
It works by assessing where to start and set goals with families, charting
family progress and assessing the effectiveness of services in relation
to outcomes.
- The Community Scaling Tool focuses
on issues of civic capital, economic development, equity, leadership,
public policy, and service systems.
- The Wraparound Project provides
standards and practices to implement a culturally appropriate, case
management Matrix Model for outreaching Latino children and adolescents
and their families.
- The Matrix Creator is a Web-based
service that functions as a national outcomes design center. It provides
tools and online training to help staff design and use a Matrix Outcomes
Model with service populations. Participating organizations have the
ability to maintain their Matrix data on our online system.
- Training Assistance is provided by Jerry Endres
directly with contracting programs.
- Online Tutorial is an interactive, four
session tutorial to better understand human service outcomes, develop
indicators for assessing outcomes, describing the Family Development
Matrix Model and basic computer applications.
- Download Reports contains the Matrix
Validity and Reliability study as well as articles written describing
the model.
- Related Links provide access to other
sources of outcomes information.
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