Beyond outcomes

New forums date on 'Beyond Outcomes" is confirmed as 29th March 2022.

The PIElink's lunchtime forum for 29th March takes the form of an interview with Joy MacKeith, the founder and developer of the Outcome Star - one of the most commonly used, person-centred outcomes measures, in use across the homelessness and social care sector.  In advance of this date, we would recommend that, if possible, anyone interested should read up on MacKeith's more recent work and direction.   

With a new report, 'Enabling Help'  MacKeith first dissects the failure of the dominant contemporary paradigms for service provision:

  • The medical paradigm, which focuses on the helper. It assumes the person is sick or fl awed and the helper has the answers
  • The bureaucratic paradigm, which focuses on the organisation delivering help. It assumes that fairness and risk management are best served through standardisation
  • The market paradigm, which focuses on the commissioner. It assumes that performance is maximised through competition and financial incentives
  • The natural sciences, which paradigm focuses on the intervention. It assumes that what works can be identified and replicated independently of context.

In their place, she argues for a more radical shift in the delivery and commissioning of services, with a firm commitment to person-centred and person-led services. In this. McKeith joins her voice to all those arguing for systems change.

To register, email : forums@pielink.net.

 

NB: The second talk in this last week of March will continue the theme os systems thinking and systems change, looking at the use of the Pizazz and the PIE Abacus to develop local datasets on gaps and hindrances to constructive pathways and networks.

For the full Season Four programme, topics and dates, see: HERE

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But for those with the time and opportunity, DO see also the much earlier article from the 'Housing Care and Support journal (HERE), in which she outlines the philosophical and ethical roots of the Outcomes Star approach, in liberation theology and empowerment practice.

Further background

 

How could social provision achieve more : HERE

Enabling help report : HERE

 

Library items

Enabling help : HERE

Conducting research and evaluation in a person-centred way : HERE

Wellness Action Plans : HERE

Behaving like a system : HERE

Do complex needs need 'complex needs services' ?  (Part 1) : HERE

Do complex needs need 'complex needs services' ?  (Part 2) : HERE

 

PIElink pages

The forums page : HERE

Approaches to evaluation : HERE

Evaluation by outcomes : HERE

Evaluation of PIEs :  HERE

Whole systems as PIEs : HERE

Enabling environments : HERE