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	Case Management Fidelity Assessment	Logic Model
Field	Social Work	Social Work
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1998	2004
Originator	Gregory Teague, Gary Bond & Robert Drake (Dartmouth ACT fidelity tradition)	Program-evaluation tradition; popularized by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Type	Structured rating of a case-management program's adherence to a defined service model	Diagram linking program resources and activities to intended outcomes
Seminal source	Teague, G. B., Bond, G. R., & Drake, R. E. (1998). Program fidelity in assertive community treatment: Development and use of a measure. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 68(2), 216–232.	W. K. Kellogg Foundation. (2004). Logic Model Development Guide. W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
Aliases	Case Management Model Fidelity, Care Coordination Fidelity, Assertive Community Treatment Fidelity, DACTS Fidelity Scale	Program Logic Model, Logical Framework, Program Theory Model, Logic Model (Social Work)
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Summary	Case management fidelity assessment measures how closely a case-management or care-coordination program matches the defined model it claims to implement — such as assertive community treatment, intensive case management, or a strengths model — by rating specific structural and process dimensions on anchored scales and aggregating them into an overall fidelity score. The approach was established by the Dartmouth tradition of Teague, Bond, and Drake, whose Assertive Community Treatment fidelity scale became the template for measuring whether a program is delivering its model in practice or only in name.	A logic model is a diagram that lays out the intended logic of a program — how its resources and activities are expected to produce outputs and, through them, short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes. Popularized in human services by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation's development guide, it makes a program's underlying theory of change explicit and testable, providing the backbone for program planning, communication with stakeholders, and evaluation by clarifying exactly what the program does and what it is supposed to achieve.