• Outcomes

    For over a decade, the Outcomes Team has been working to improve social services by introducing and establishing outcome-oriented work processes in the government ministries and the voluntary sector to promote effectiveness, professionalism, transparency, and accountability. The team partners in developing infrastructures of knowledge, information, indicators, tools, and technology; guides and assists processes of organizational policy formulation and strategic planning; accompanies headquarters and field managers and workers in the assimilation and application of the principles of outcome thinking in their work; and fosters the self-capacity of organizations, enabling them to perform processes of planning, ongoing measurement, and the proficient use of information. The Outcomes Team is dedicated to the ongoing development of the theory and practice of outcome thinking in the social sphere and their adaptation to the needs emerging from the field and to new professional perspectives.

    2024 Research Themes

    • Promoting the Use of Knowledge and Information
    • Development of Planning and Measurement Infrastructures
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    2024 Research Themes

    Promoting the Use of Knowledge and Information
    Development of Planning and Measurement Infrastructures

    Research Staff

    Ben Alfasi

    Research Analyst

    Dr. Anna Reznikovski-Kuras

    Research Scholar

    Dr. Tal Arazi

    Senior Research Scholar and Outcomes Team Leader

    Dr. Yuri Teper

    Research Associate

    Hadas Shapira

    Research associate

    Maayan Sarver

    Research associate

    Rakefet Shimoni

    Administrative Coordinator

    Yael Bachar

    Research Associate

    Yael Sabag

    Research associate

    Recent Publications

    Logic Models for the “Chanoch LaNa’ar” Program
    Yael Bachar, Dr. Tal Arazi
    2024

    The Social Inclusion Team at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute is currently evaluating the Chanoch LaNa'ar program, and the Institute’s Outcomes Team was asked to design logic models for the program. The logic model is a key tool in outcomes thinking, which seeks to trace change theory and help in developing measurement systems, analyzing data and in learning about the program. The model gives a graphic presentation of the program’s main components – characteristics, needs, inputs, outputs, and outcomes – and illustrates their connections visually. It is a widely used tool for planning, conceptualization, and tracking changes.
    Outcome-Based Planning to Optimize the Service Network for Children and Youth at Risk in Local Authorities
    Maayan Sarver, Dr. Tal Arazi, Dr. Yuri Teper, Mimi Ackerman
    2024

    This manual is designed to help professionals in local authorities to refine their planning, measurement and lesson-learning processes from a broad, cross-municipal perspective and as part of the program’s routine operations. The manual is based on a planning process informed by the logic model and by the principles of outcome-based thinking, articulating the aim of implementing the principles of outcome-based thinking as an organizing framework for 360°.
    The “What’s Up?” Survey of Adolescents in Residential Care During The Israel-Hamas War
    Ben Alfasi, Dr. Anna Reznikovski-Kuras, Dr. Tal Arazi
    2024

    On October 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization launched a surprise attack on the communities bordering on the Gaza Strip that led Israel to declare war on Hamas. Immediately after the outbreak of the war, the Out-of-Home Care, Family, Children, Youth and Special Placement Division of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs began assessing the needs of the residential facilities under its responsibility. A month after the outbreak of the war, the Ministry decided to examine the status of the adolescents in these facilities with the residents themselves, to assess their unique needs in light of the terror attack and ongoing hostilities, as well as to convey a message of caring and partnership by professionals and administrators in the residential facilities and the Ministry. Therefore, the Ministry commissioned the Myers-Joint-Brookdale Institute to conduct a survey of all adolescents in residential care facilities supervised by the Ministry.
    The Effects of the Israel-Hamas War on Children and Youth in Israel
    Yael Sabag, Dr. Anna Reznikovski-Kuras, Dr. Tal Arazi
    2024

    This review was written to provide stakeholders with an up-to-date status report, in real time, on children and youth during the war and the risks they face in all aspects of their lives. Apart from children who were directly exposed to the war or have been evacuated from their homes, the focus of the document is on the effects on all children and youth in Israel, whatever their proximity to the events.
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