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Outcome #2: Increase to 90% the number of parents who use positive family communication <br /> to teach and discipline their children and engage the family in cooperative decision making, for <br /> families enrolled in the Safe Families Program for at least 90 days, as measured by a <br /> risk/protective factor inventory administered at the beginning and end of services. 2010-2011 <br /> Baseline: 35% of enrolled parents, upon enrollment, utilize positive family communication. <br /> (This is a new goal with a new baseline). <br /> Result: For the year, 65% of parents did not use positive family communication to teach and <br /> discipline their children at the time they enrolled in Safe Families. Upon completion of the <br /> program, positive family communication was used in 93% of these parents. This goal was <br /> exceeded. <br /> Outcome#3: 97.5% of families who successfully complete the Safe Families program will have <br /> no confirmed reports or re-reports of abuse for up to two years after completing services. 2010- <br /> 2011 Baseline: 97.1%. <br /> Result. For the two year period including 2009-2011, six families have been reported to the <br /> hotline after successfully completing the Safe Families program. In those same two years, <br /> Safe Families saw 258 families. This means that 97.7% of families were not reported to the <br /> abuse hotline after successfully completing Safe Families. This goal was exceeded. <br /> Further analysis shows that of the six families that were reported. <br /> 2 were for environmental hazards; 2 were for substance abuse; and two were for threatened <br /> harm to the child. <br /> We also saw that four of the six families that were reported completed the program at or near <br /> the minimum number of days (90) and thus we have extended the minimum stay in the program <br /> to 112 days, or 16 weeks. <br /> Outcome#4: 98% of families will, after successfully completing Safe Families, show <br /> improvement on at least two of the five Scales of the AAPI test. The scales are: Appropriate <br /> Expectations, High Level of Empathy, Values Alternatives to Corporal Punishment, Appropriate <br /> Family Roles, and Values Power-Independence. 2010-2011 Baseline: 100%. <br /> Result: For the year, 98.3% of families who completed the Safe Families program improved on <br /> at least two scales of the AAPI. This goal was met. <br /> Further analysis shows that the average improvement for each scale by all participants was as <br /> follows: <br /> Appropriate Expectations: a 39% improvement <br /> High Level of Empathy. a 74% improvement <br /> Values Alternatives to Corporal Punishment: a 38% improvement <br /> Appropriate Family Roles: a 40% improvement <br /> Values Power-Independence: a 29% improvement <br /> The AAPI is based on a standardized score. A 30% improvement (or three points out of a <br /> possible 10) is sufficient to move a parent from "a significant deficiency in appropriate parenting <br /> behavior"to "appropriate and nurturing parenting behavior. <br /> - 20- <br /> 55 <br />