 |
Citizenship and Government - Projects
Evaluation of the Home Advice program
David Mackenzie,
Kathy Desmond (KDC Consulting), Adam Steen and Liss
Ralston, for the Commonwealth Dept of Family and Community Services
The aim of this three year Commonwealth-funded
project is to evaluate
the appropriateness, effectiveness and efficiency of
the Australian
Government’s Household Organisational Management Expenses
(HOME) Advice
Program. It will assess, over time, the appropriateness,
effectiveness and efficiency of the program and the outcomes for
families, using data from the FHPP (July 2002–June 2004) and
from the HOME Advice Program (five to six years). This
includes analysis of the:
• appropriateness of interventions by community service
agencies and
Centrelink in addressing a client’s needs during and after
support;
• appropriateness of the community development element
of the program and
use of the brokerage funds;
• appropriateness of the partnership arrangements between
service
providers and Centrelink;
• effectiveness of the program in meeting its outcomes
including the
extent to which the program meets its objectives and the identified
community need;
• effectiveness of the program in meeting outcomes
for families at risk
of homelessness;
• efficiency of the program, including the cost effectiveness of the
program overall, the community
development element, and the service provider/Centrelink partnership
model; trends over time in the ratio of administrative
to program costs; the cost effectiveness of early
intervention for families at risk
of homelessness; the cost of service use
by families at risk of homelessness and
changes in service use and the cost over five to six years.
|