Evaluation of the NT MOS projects
Evaluation factors
Up to Closing the Gap: Northern Territory
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This diagram of interlinking oval shapes illustrates a range of overlapping and interacting evaluation factors.The MOS Projects policy context oval is the largest and encompasses all other ovals. Within the policy context oval are the integrated approach oval and the community oval, which overlap each other.
The integrated approach oval encompasses a range of factors that all overlap each other, including organisational features, program response factors, NT CTG measures, and staff factors. The community factors oval encompasses two sets of factors, extended family factors and client characteristics factors, that also overlap.
A two-ended arrow links the two ovals representing staff factors and client characteristics factors.
Policy context
The policy context consists of two Council of Australian Government National Partnership Agreements:- The National Partnership Agreement on Health Services
- The Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory National Partnership Agreement.
Integrated approach
An integrated approach to service development and delivery involves:- the Department of Health and Ageing and the NT Department of Children and Families operating under arrangements described in the MOS Plus Implementation Plan under the National Partnership Agreement on Health Services
- major stakeholders, including the MOS Plus Expert Reference Group members, the Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance Northern Territory; Remote Health; Family Violence and Child Development and Safety services, and schools
- the Care and Protection of Children Act 2007 (NT).
Organisational features
- Department of Health and Ageing and NT Department of Children and Families governance arrangements
- NT Department of Children and Families management
- Workforce capacity
- Geographical teams
- The development of the service from the original Mobile Outreach Service to the Mobile Outreach Service Plus
- Referral pathways
- Service protocols
- Remote focus
Closing the Gap in the Northern Territory measures
- Food security
- Remote policing and substance abuse
- Property management
- Interpreters
- Follow-up care for ear, nose, throat and dental services
- Family support
- Education
- Activities in communities
Program response factors
- Ongoing development
- Number of communities
- Demography of clients
- Culturally safe
- Implementation by the Department of Health and Ageing and the NT Department of Children and Families
- Reflective practice
- The service model and approach
Staff factors
- Counsellor factors: skills, capacities, qualifications, background, gender, age, and cultural competence
- Aboriginal Therapeutic Resource Officer factors: background, cultural group and language, gender, age, and skills
Community factors
- Size and location
- Local organisations and services
- Levels of cohesion
- Responsiveness to local children, young people and families' health and wellbeing
- Resilience
- Resources
Extended family factors
- Socio-demographic features
- Risk factors
- Cultural protocols
- Receptiveness to local service networks
Client characteristics factors
- Age
- Gender
- Reason for referral
- Child/family
- Family/kinship/social connectedness
- Geographic location
- Cultural features
- Specific needs