From journal articles to Quick Guides and webinars, you will find tools and information to support.
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The Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY)'s “Getting It Right: Improving Co-Design Practice with Multicultural Young People” is a practical guide that explores how to strengthen co-design by centring the voices and experiences of multicultural youth. It highlights common challenges and misconceptions, and outlines what authentic, ethical co-design looks like in practice. Drawing on research and lived experience, the guide offers actionable strategies to support inclusive, culturally responsive engagement. It is designed to help organisations build capability and deliver more meaningful, impactful programs.
The AIFS interactive Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) guide is designed to support organisations understand how programs are working, whether they are making a difference, and how they can be improved over time. It provides a practical overview of the MEL process, with step-by-step guidance on planning, collecting and using evidence. Suitable for organisations at any stage, the guide supports embedding evidence-informed practice to achieve better
This resource supports Communities for Children (CfC) and other service providers in identifying valid and reliable tools to measure program outcomes. It helps practitioners select appropriate measures to assess impact in child and family services. The list is intended as a practical guide and does not constitute endorsement of any specific tools or products.
This webinar is the first in a three-part series on collecting and using evidence in Australian child and family services. It explores how surveys can be used effectively to gather data for monitoring, evaluation, and demonstrating impact. Hear practical insights from experts at the Parenting Research Centre on when surveys work best, common challenges, and how to design them well. Perfect for practitioners looking to improve their data collection approach.
A simple Program Logic template, with suggestions for consideration.
The key tool in designing for outcomes is developing a logic model/map. A logic model makes clear our assumptions about how our actions will cause the outcome we are expecting. It encourages us to reflect on our intent, actions and desired result and to discuss them with others and make them explicit. This fact sheet refers to program logic and describes what is helpful at this level. For smaller scale activities, similar key questions and processes can help but these might not be documented as formally or involve the same degree of collaboration with others.
Measuring outcomes helps organisations to test what they are doing and the difference they are making, learn whether or not it is working, and continuously improve to have even greater impact. This test, learn and improve process can improve service design and delivery, drive innovation and support organisations to engage funders and the people they are working with.
This fact sheet will introduce you to considerations for selecting data collection methods. Information gathered about the outcomes of programs and activities can help track progress and identify lessons and opportunities for improvement and determine whether outcomes have been delivered.
Step 2: Design your outcome measurement approach.
