You already track services delivered and clients served. Evidence-Based Outcomes reports show what changed for those clients, using the same research-backed assessments funders and accreditors already trust.
Every one of these reports is included with Community CareLink. They come to life the moment your staff begin documenting a standardized assessment.
17 outcome reports across mental health, substance use, resilience, children and families, and self-sufficiency, all included with Community CareLink.
Grant applications and renewals increasingly ask for validated, standardized outcome measures. A before-and-after report built on the PHQ-9 or the Self-Sufficiency Questionnaire answers that question in a form reviewers recognize instantly.
"Of 37 clients with a first and a latest PHQ-9 this quarter, 78% improved. The average score fell from 13.43 (Moderate) to 8.59 (Mild)."
A re-administered assessment is an early-warning system. When a client's score stalls or climbs, staff can adjust the plan while there is still time, instead of learning at discharge.
The client-level detail view lists every person whose latest score is worse than their first, with links straight to their record.
Filter any report by program, date range, and client demographics. Compare cohorts. Spot the program model that consistently moves the needle and make the case to expand it.
Every report exports its underlying rows, so your evaluator or board gets the numbers behind the chart.
Outcome reports read the assessment forms your staff complete inside a client's record. Document the form, and the report fills itself in.
Pick the instrument that matches what your program is trying to change. Depression? PHQ-9. Substance use? DAST-10. Housing and income stability? Self-Sufficiency Questionnaire.
Staff complete the form in the client's record at intake and repeat it at set points: 30, 60, or 90 days, and at discharge. Two data points per client is all a before-and-after report needs.
In Community CareLink, open Reports and choose Evidence-Based Outcomes. Each report shows your population's score distribution, the before-and-after change for clients with two or more assessments, and a client-level detail list.
Where does our population stand, who changed and by how much, and which clients need attention. These are real screens from a CCL demo agency. Click any one to see it full size.
Every instrument below is a published, validated measure with an outcome report already built into CCL. Pick the outcome, then the tool.
Depression, anxiety, trauma, and mood. Lower scores are better.
Patient Health Questionnaire, depression
The most widely used depression screen in primary and behavioral health. Nine questions map directly to diagnostic criteria, so clinicians and funders both trust it.
Report shows severity-band shift and average score change, intake to latest.
Included with Community CareLink
Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale
The anxiety companion to the PHQ-9, and just as quick. Pairing the two gives a rounded picture of a client's mental health in under 5 minutes.
Same layout as the PHQ-9 report, so staff learn one and know both.
Included with Community CareLink
PTSD Checklist for DSM-5, trauma severity
The standard for measuring post-traumatic stress symptoms. Its published thresholds for reliable and clinically meaningful change let you say more than "scores went down."
Report flags each client's change as reliable (5–10 points) or clinically meaningful (more than 10).
Included with Community CareLink
Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales
One short form, three separate outcomes. Useful when you want to show stress reduction alongside mood, for example in caregiver or re-entry programs.
Report tracks all three scales side by side, before and after.
Included with Community CareLink
Depression severity
A clinical-grade depression inventory with decades of research behind it. Choose it when your clinicians already use Beck instruments or your funder names it.
Report mirrors the PHQ-9 layout with Beck's severity bands.
Included with Community CareLink
Anxiety severity
The anxiety counterpart to the BDI-II. Focuses on physical and cognitive anxiety symptoms over the past week.
Report mirrors the BDI-II layout with Beck's anxiety bands.
Included with Community CareLink
Six-part mood and relationship inventory
Tracks depression, anxiety, panic, anger, suicidal urges, and relationship satisfaction in one form. Well suited to therapy programs that want a session-to-session picture.
Report shows first-to-last average change on each subscale.
Included with Community CareLink
Screening, readiness to change, and the resources that sustain recovery.
Drug Abuse Screening Test
Ten yes-or-no questions that place a client in one of five involvement levels. Quick enough for intake, sensitive enough to show movement at follow-up.
Report counts clients who moved to a lower involvement level.
Included with Community CareLink
Stages of Change Readiness and Treatment Eagerness
Measures whether a client recognizes a problem, feels ambivalent about it, and is taking steps to change. Ideal for showing progress before abstinence outcomes appear.
Report applies the published rule for a sustained shift toward change.
Included with Community CareLink
University of Rhode Island Change Assessment
The classic stages-of-change measure. Scores across precontemplation, contemplation, action, and maintenance combine into a single readiness score.
Report shows movement between readiness bands, intake to latest.
Included with Community CareLink
Multidimensional Inventory of Recovery Capital
Measures the social, physical, human, and cultural resources a person can draw on to sustain recovery. A strengths-based complement to symptom screens.
Report compares your population to the published validation sample by domain.
Included with Community CareLink
Strengths-based measures where higher scores are better.
Ability to bounce back from stress
Six questions, two minutes. The fastest way to add a strengths-based outcome to any program, from job readiness to housing.
Report shows the share of clients who reached Normal or High resilience.
Included with Community CareLink
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
A deeper resilience measure used in hundreds of published studies. Choose it when a funder or research partner asks for the CD-RISC by name.
Report shows band shift and average change, first to latest.
Included with Community CareLink
Youth-appropriate measures and the family-history screen that shapes care.
Ages 8–16, goal-directed thinking
Six child-friendly questions measuring a young person's belief that they can reach their goals and find ways around obstacles. Hope predicts school and health outcomes.
Report shows hope-band shift plus each subscale's average change.
Included with Community CareLink
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, ages 4–17
The leading brief behavioral screen for children, completed by a parent, teacher, or the young person. Covers emotional, conduct, attention, and peer difficulties plus prosocial strengths.
Report tracks every subscale before and after with published banding.
Included with Community CareLink
Adverse Childhood Experiences
A ten-question history of childhood adversity. It is a snapshot, not a before-and-after measure, but it lets you describe the population you serve and justify trauma-informed programming.
Report profiles your population's exposure by band, race, and gender.
Included with Community CareLink
Whole-life stability for housing, employment, and social-service programs.
Life-domain stability matrix
Rates a household across housing, employment, income, food, health, education, and other life domains, from crisis to thriving. The outcome measure of choice for housing, re-entry, and family-support programs.
Two reports: a population overview and a before-and-after client comparison by domain.
Included with Community CareLink
No assessments match that filter.
About licensing. Most instruments above are free to use. The Beck inventories and the CD-RISC are copyrighted and require a license your agency holds with the publisher. CCL supplies the report; your agency is responsible for the right to administer the instrument.
This library is growing. We listen to our agencies and respond to new requests for evidence-based outcomes reporting based on demand.
If your program relies on a clinically validated assessment that is not listed here, ask us to add it. We build the form, the scoring, and the outcome report to the publisher's specification, so your staff document it once and the results flow into the same before-and-after reporting you see in the examples.
Cost. A one-time fee may apply when a new evidence-based outcomes report is added.
To request one, contact us with the instrument name and its publisher. Current agencies can also ask their Community CareLink representative.
The agencies with the strongest outcome reports did not add staff. They picked a cadence and built it into existing touchpoints.
Every report here is included with Community CareLink. Pick one assessment, start documenting it at intake, and the story writes itself.
Already a Community CareLink agency? You will find this guide and every report under Reports › Evidence-Based Outcomes.
Community CareLink · Evidence-Based Outcomes · Instrument details reflect each publisher's scoring guidance as implemented in Community CareLink reports. Report examples show demonstration data, not a real agency.
