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Prepared for
McKenzie Centre​

24th July 2024

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McKenzie Centre is dedicated to enabling children with disabilities and their whānau to have great lives through realising their child's potential.


How ImpactLab defines social value

Social value is the estimated social impact in dollar terms that a programme achieves for participants over their lifetime.

Throughout our lives, different events occur that impact our overall wellbeing journey. ImpactLab measures the impact on an individual’s wellbeing across multiple domains when they’re supported by a programme to make positive changes in their life.​

We measure this impact in terms of both positive benefits (such as increased income) and avoided costs to government.​

To calculate social value, we combine these impact values with:​

  • evidence from global literature about how effective a programme can be;
  • the size of the opportunity for the people a programme serves to achieve more positive outcomes; and​
  • the number of people supported.

By combining these inputs, the social value calculation helps us understand how a programme or intervention helps change lives for the better. We combine the social value with cost information to calculate a programme’s social return on investment.


The four key components to measure social value

Outcomes

What positive long-term changes in participants’ lives does McKenzie to create?

Effectiveness

What academic evidence is there about how effective a programme like McKenzie Centre can be at achieving those changes?

Population

How many people does McKenzie Centre reach, and how many engage long enough to meaningfully benefit?

Opportunity

Who does McKenzie Centre serve, and what is the opportunity to make a difference for those people?


= Social Value

Scope - McKenzie Centre GoodMeasure

This GoodMeasure estimates the social value created by McKenzie Centre during the period of 1st January 2023 - 31st December 2023.

McKenzie Centre is an early intervention centre that serves young children (ages 0 - 5) with disabilities and their whānau. The Centre adopts a transdisciplinary approach that brings together the knowledge and expertise of both whānau and specialists to design and implement bespoke development plans for each child.

Children and whānau enrolled into the programme attend weekly early intervention play-based sessions, facilitated by an early intervention team who specialise in various disciplines. These sessions continue to inform the child's development plan until they are ready to attend school.

McKenzie Centre invests in its community by hosting parent focused workshops, hangout sessions, and other events that build parent capability and confidence whilst growing their connection to the community.

For children and whānau on the waiting list, weekly early intervention playgroup sessions are available. These sessions are facilitated by 2 staff and a Tuakana who are available to provide support in the interim.


Population: McKenzie Centre​

How many people do you reach
and how many engage enough to meaningfully benefit?​

Groups

Total starting

Total engaging

Engagement rate​

Children with disabilities

127

112

88%

Whānau/Family members (Adults)

161

146

91%

Siblings

23

23

100%​

Total

​311

281

90%

Note: Social value is only counted per meaningfully engaged participant, while cost is per participant enrolled with McKenzie Centre during the period in scope.


GoodMeasure Metrics: McKenzieCentre

$3,003,096

Total social value


Social Value: The estimated lifetime social value that this programme generated for participants during the measurement period.

$10,687

Social value per person


Social Value per person: When we divide your total social value by the total number of people that meaningfully engage in the programme, we can derive a social value per person.

$1: $1.80

SROI


SROI: When we divide your total social value by your total operational costs the result is your SROI - the measurable social value as a proportion of programme cost.

GoodMeasure Metrics: McKenzieCentre

$20,508

Social Value per child


Social Value per person: When we divide your total social value by the total number of people that meaningfully engage in the programme, we can derive a social value per person.

$4,515

Social value per adult


Social Value per person: When we divide your total social value by the total number of people that meaningfully engage in the programme, we can derive a social value per person.

$2,046

Social value per sibling


Social Value per person: When we divide your total social value by the total number of people that meaningfully engage in the programme, we can derive a social value per person.

Outcomes: McKenzie Centre

What positive long-term changes in peoples’ lives does McKenzie Centre help to create?​

GoodMeasure Outcomes​
These outcomes contribute directly to your SROI

Additional Outcomes​
These outcomes contribute indirectly to your SROI

Children with disabilities

All

Improve mental health

Improved developmental trajectories

Improve physical health

Improved family functioning

Increase academic achievement (NCEA 3) ​

Improved social skills

Increase employment

Increased confidence


Reduce risky behaviour

Improved community connection


Reduce offending

Increased independence


Reduce addiction

Increased family empowerment



Increase communication abilities

Whānau/Family level outcomes

Enhanced emotional regulation

Reduce family violence

Reduce stress

Reduce victimisation (family violence)

Reduce anxiety

Reduce child placement

Reduce need for intensive services


Improve infant safety





Whānau/Family members (Adults) and Siblings


Improve mental health


Reduce emergency benefit


Reduce risky behaviour


Reduce offending


Reduce addiction


Demographics: McKenzie Centre

Who do you serve?

Children with disabilities

Age

100% of all Children were between the ages of 0 - 6.


Gender

73% of all Children were male and 27% female.


Ethnicity

The largest ethnicity group was Māori, followed by European (incl. Pākeha).

Whānau/Family members (Adults) + Siblings

Age

All adult participants were aged between 19 - 65 and sibling participants between 0 - 6.

Opportunity: McKenzie Centre

Who do you serve, and what is the opportunity to make a difference for those people?

Children with disabilities

Experienced Family Violence

The sample data received for children with disabilities showed that 15% of children had experienced family violence.

This data informed the opportunity rates for the following outcomes:

  • Reduce family violence
  • Reduce victimisation (family violence)



Oranga Tamariki (OT) Involvement

The sample data received for children with disabilities showed that 12% of children had experienced at some point, OT (Oranga Tamariki) involvement.

This data informed the opportunity rates for the Reduce child placement outcome.

Disabilities

The most common diagnosis among all children was Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), followed by multiple disabilities and intellectual disabilities.

32% of all children were NOT formally diagnosed but exhibited signs of a potential diagnosis.

Disability data was used to inform opportunity rates for sub-populations relating to Improve mental health and Increase academic achievement outcomes.

Whānau/Family members (Adults)

Education, Employment and Training Factors

The sample data received for whānau/family members (adults) showed that:

  • 26% of whānau/family members (adults) were unemployed
  • 26% of whānau/family members (adults) were receiving a hardship benefit

This data informed the opportunity rate for the Reduce hardship benefit outcome, as well as the unemployed sub-population rate for this outcome.

Costs: McKenzie Centre

$1,647,753

Total investment

Total investment: The sum of the programme's direct and indirect costs.

$1,238,382

Direct costs

Direct costs: The expenses involved with running the prorgamme.

$409,371

Indirect costs

Indirect costs: Expenses that don't come from directly running the programme but are still needed as part of it.

$5,298

Total cost per starting participant

Total cost per starting participant: The total investment divided by the number of starting participants.



Future opportunities

What might you do to enhance your view of the social value McKenzie Centre creates?


Options to improve programme effectiveness data

Progress

  • If feasible, track participant physical and mental well-being pre-engagement and once per year during their engagement period.
  • Track the experience of children as they enter school . How well do they adjust to this environment?
  • Track outward referrals. What percentage of referrals are taken up? What is the result of referral take up?

Options to improve opportunity and population data

  • Collect separate ethnicity, gender and age data on whānau/family members (adults) and siblings
  • If feasible, collate data on Oranga Tamariki involvement, family violence incidents, and hardship benefit usage into a centralised spreadsheet.
  • If feasible, collate information about the substance use behaviours of whānau/family members (adults).

Next Steps

What you could do with your results

Share your GoodMeasure report with funders and supporters

  • Funders will appreciate your commitment to impact measurement as it demonstrates transparency and a desire to do good, better. Invite input from both existing and prospective funders. They may have helpful insights and advice – or additional funding – to help you further increase impact. ​

Review your GoodMeasure report as a team​

  • Discuss key insights from the Report with your leadership, programme and finance team. How could you increase your impact even further?​

Celebrate with your team!

  • You’ve worked hard to achieve the SROI figure captured in your GoodMeasure Report, it’s important to pause every so often to reflect on the impact you’re achieving together. ​​

Book a GoodMeasure Renewal

  • ImpactLab offers a GoodMeasure Renewal, allowing you to understand how the changes you've implemented have impacted your SROI. Ask your Lead Analyst for more details.

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