Licensing Measurement

Chapter 5
Coordinated Program Monitoring,
Differential Monitoring, Key Indicator, Risk
Assessment, and Integrative Monitoring
This chapter demonstrates the national/federal initiatives
addressing coordinated program monitoring. There are
several excellent reports produced by the Administration
for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Child Care
(OCC), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
(OPRE), Assistant Secretary’s Office of Planning and
Evaluation, and the Federal Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) which goes a long way in
addressing this key issue. In any system where there are
limited resources, we need to be as cost effective and
efficient as possible. The handouts which accompany
this text through the NARA Licensing Measurement
course will provide you with many examples of how best
to do this. These handouts/reports are all available of the
RIKI and NARA websites as well as within the NARA
Licensing Curriculum (2000).
With a closed system and limited resources, a
coordinated program monitoring system is critical to
make certain that we have the necessary resources to
effectively and efficiently protect the clients in the
facilities we are mandated to license. The key term is
"Do No Harm". The federal agency reports in this class
will provide you with the parameters for building a
program monitoring system that accomplishes this goal.
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