Results-Based Accountability helps us turn the curve to a healthier community.
CBEL utilizes Results-Based Accountability to create measurable change in our neighborhoods. RBA is data-driven, starting from an end goal and working backward to determine what steps need to be met along the way.
Indicators, Scorecard, & Action Plan
Indicator 1 Every child grows up in a safe, stable, nurturing home
Having a safe, stable, and reliable home is essential to human health. Inadequate and unsafe housing also contributes to health problems such as chronic disease and injuries and can have harmful effects on child development. Homelessness, a serious consequence of housing unaffordability and unavailability, for both renting and ownership, continues to be a challenge for the community and Oregon. Oregon was ranked 1st in the nation for unsheltered homelessness among families with children, 3rd overall in the nation for people experiencing homelessness,
Multiple nationwide studies include the following main causes of homelessness: insufficient income and poverty; lack of affordable housing; foreclosures; domestic violence for women and children; high personal injury crime rates, mental illnesses; and substance abuse.
The need to focus on child and family homelessness is a primary priority for CBEL and its community partners in achieving the quality-of-life outcome that every child grows up in a safe, stable, nurturing home.
Indicator 2 Every child succeeds in school
Research shows that arriving prepared and “ready for kindergarten” is one of the most significant factors in predicting academic success and achievement, including in higher education, as well as successes later in life. The most upstream intervention lies within early childhood education and kindergarten preparedness to improve the quality-of-life outcome that every child succeeds in school.
In the CBEL neighborhoods, children often enter kindergarten scoring less than peers across Oregon. CBEL supports families and their children in participating in kindergarten readiness programs and activities, specifically focusing on early literacy and engaging with Hispanic, Latino, and English Language Learner families. Additional support helps families remove attendance barriers and learn self-regulation to improve their success.
Below are links to additional information from a few of our partners related to homelessness:
Marion & Polk Community Health Improvement Plan 2026-2030
Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance – Serving Marion County and Polk County, Oregon
McKinney-Vento - Salem-Keizer District 24J
Additional information can be found at our partner websites:
Third-Grade Reading Scores Are Up in Salem-Keizer Public Schools | Post detail page