News Highlights
- New report card highlights health and human services performance in six areas: connected individuals, economic self-sufficiency, healthy people, positive living for older adults and individuals with disabilities, successful children and youth, and sustainable housing.
- Data and information outlined will help form HHS priorities.
- Report card will be updated annually.
The Fairfax County Health and Human Services (HHS) System recently launched an online report card to share how its programs and services strengthen children, adults, and families, and therefore, improves our entire community. The Health and Human Services Report Card highlights the performance of the HHS System around six desired results: connected individuals, economic self-sufficiency, healthy people, positive living for older adults and individuals with disabilities, successful children and youth, and sustainable housing. As the HHS System works to enhance the social and economic well-being of Fairfax County citizens and communities, it is expected that the report card will further motivate community partners to continue contributing to HHS efforts.
“One of the most important advancements driving health and human services delivery in Fairfax County is performance management and using data to drive change,” said Patricia Harrison, Deputy County Executive of HHS. “To demonstrate accountability for the public investment in health and human services, we have committed to doing business in a way that can show how persons we serve are better off as a result of our services. This approach, based on a national Results-Based Accountability™ model, allows us to measure impact and collectively strengthen the well-being of residents through collaboration with the community.”
This dynamic web tool provides a set of goals and indicators which highlight current HHS priorities. Residents and partners are encouraged to access the report card to:
- Get data and information on how HHS is progressing towards goals in six community result areas
- Access brief descriptions about the impact of each indicator
- Link to more details about county trends and emerging issues
Sample data from the report card:
- Successful Children and Youth
- Goals - Improve the ability of children to get a healthy start in life; Improve the ability of children to enter kindergarten ready to succeed; Improve the ability of children to succeed academically
- Sample Indicator – Children who have a medical home/primary care provider
- Trends – Increasing: Currently 95% compared to prior value of 92%
- Sustainable Housing
- Goals – Increase safe, affordable housing; Prevent and end homelessness
- Sample Indicator - Individuals and families who are housed
- Trends – Decreasing: Currently 64% compared to prior value of 68%
Data will be updated annually through the ongoing efforts of workgroups comprised of HHS staff and community partners. The Fairfax County HHS System will also use the report card to guide strategies that lead to improved outcomes for individuals served by its programs and services.
The HHS Report Card can be found on the Live Healthy Fairfax Community Health Dashboard at www.livehealthyfairfax.org. The Community Health Dashboard is a web-based data resource that hosts the HHS Report Card and over 100 other indicators from a variety of topic areas, such as health, education, the environment, and public safety. The site also features four short video tutorials to help visitors access and use the site.
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