Connecting Your Needs Assessment With the Blueprint for Change

The National Center for a System of Services for CYSHCN created this tool as a resource for state or jurisdiction Title V CYSHCN programs to approach their needs assessment process in alignment with the Blueprint for Change. This resource outlines key questions to consider and how each question intersects with the required areas of the Title V needs assessment, universal National Performance Measures and the critical areas of the Blueprint.  These questions were informed by National Center resources, project activities and the Blueprint for Change articles. We encourage you to use this as a starting point and develop additional research questions to inform your needs assessment, including both your 5-year needs assessment and ongoing needs assessment. Questions can be perceived differently and may fit into more/less categories than as outlined below. 

Principles and associated strategies are described in Guiding Principles for a System of Services for Children and Youth With Special Health Care Needs and Their Families.