Outcome Management allows agencies to define assessments. Once assessments have been defined, they can be run in order to identify and determine the severity of a client's needs. There are five main aspects to configuring an assessment:
- configuring the assessment type
- configuring roles
- configuring sets of factors across which clients and their families are assessed
- categorizing and classifying factors according to their type
- configuring the possible results that can be achieved when a factor is assessed
The figure below shows an example of the structure of an assessment and the classifications of factors within that assessment. Each element of the assessment is described in more detail in this section.
Figure 1. Assessment Structure