Ready to move from assessment to action in your Title V Needs Assessment process? The Hexagon Tool can help!
In 2024, we published three new sessions in MCHwork, our series of microlearning sessions for busy professionals. All three of this year’s sessions are centered around the Hexagon Tool!
About the Hexagon Tool
The Hexagon Tool can help you evaluate new or existing programs and practices. It guides a team through a discussion about both the program itself and its “fit” with the implementing site. This tool is designed for use with a team, to ensure multiple perspectives are represented when evaluating programs or practices.
On the program side, the tool asks you to consider whether a program:
- is evidence-based and appears to have an impact with key population groups.
- demonstrates usability in different settings with positive results.
- can be supported by department resources (e.g., staff, evaluation infrastructure).
And on the implementing site side, consider:
- whether the program meets community needs and addresses a gap.
- how the program fits within a department’s scope and a community’s values.
- if a site has the capacity to fund and facilitate a program.
Access the Sessions
Each session contains short videos, short written explanations, and links to more resources. Learn a little bit at a time. Revisit the modules to learn more or come back for a refresher.
3.1. The Hexagon Tool: Moving from Assessment to Action
This session introduces learners to the Hexagon tool and teaches you how to use it to align new or existing evidence-based programs into your current work.
3.2. The Hexagon Tool: A Budgeting Perspective
The second session looks at how to apply the Hexagon Tool to a budgeting process. In this context, the tool can help agencies work through Step 7 of the State MCH Block Grant Needs Assessment Conceptual Framework: Seek and Allocate Resources.
3.3. The Hexagon Tool: Coming Full Circle With Systems Integration
The final session introduces Systems Integration tools that you can use in combination with the Hexagon Tool to get an even clearer picture of what programs or policies would be the best fit.