Results-Based Accountability (RBA)Action-oriented, data-driven framework to improve population health and program performance. |
Technology of ParticipationFocused discussion, action planning, and consensus-building methods. |
Community-Based Participatory ResearchTraining community members to participate in and lead their own research and evaluation.
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Tailored ServicesPackages blending training with technical support to fit each client’s culture, strengths, and resource constraints.
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Culture of Results Initiative
Our Purpose
To make a more fair and equitable society, we must understand the strengths, challenges, and opportunities across our communities. The Culture of Results Initiative applies data to drive decisions about resources and determine which strategies create positive change. We operate with transparency, accountability, and integrity as our core values.
Our Work
COR provides training and support to local, regional, and state partners — including statewide initiatives, grassroots coalitions, local public health departments, hospital networks, universities, and community-based agencies. Partners develop the skills to assess challenges and opportunities in their communities and evaluate their services using Results-Based Accountability (RBA) — an evidence-based framework recognized by the CDC, NIH, and departments across North Carolina.
5,771
Individual leaders supported statewide
through evidence-based training, planning, and technical assistance from 2017–2024.
Our Approach
“We can rethink the system. We can question our assumptions and inquire what is really important… The events in our community and across the country and the world make it important to remember that metrics and charts are irrelevant if they’re not in service to the right questions… Emma Olson [COR Director] reminded us last week that questions are the heart of the Results-based Accountability framework. Questions keep us focused on outcomes, which is important, but questions serve another purpose as well. They help us disrupt the inevitable pull toward the normal that will destroy not just our particular project or program, but everything we’re working toward as a city.”
–Eric Jackson, Manager, Office of Data & Performance – City of Asheville.
“The NC Center for Health and Wellness has helped the Mothering Asheville movement establish how to evaluate and work towards progress in community capacity building, clinical shift, and policy change. They led our entire collaborative to create a shared vision, trained community-based doulas to develop criteria for assessing how our patients are better off, and built a Scorecard to measure our impact.”
– Maggie Adams, Director of Mothering Asheville, MAHEC Ob/GYN. COR provided training and technical assistance using RBA to the Mothering Asheville movement from 2016-2020.
Emma C. Olson, M.P.H, M.S.W.
Interim Executive Director
Office: 446 Sherrill Center
Phone: 7715
Email: eolson1@unca.edu