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Grant Precedent

Match / Office of Community Services (HHS Administration for Children and Families) / Community Services Block Grant (CSBG)

Measure 4243

The number of parents/caregivers who improved their home environments.

MenuoutcomeFNPI 2e

Tier 2: Add one free instrument

Asks for a reported change in knowledge, attitude, behavior or condition.

Instruments for family and parenting
  • SCORE-15 Public domain 15 scored; ancillary questions separate items, about 5-10 min

    License: “freely available; permission not required for use.”

    EN verified; translation forms unverified. Evidence is particularly relevant to systemic family/couple therapy.

    Form
  • Protective Factors Survey, original PFS Public domain 20 core items, about 10-15 min

    License: “You may download and use the PFS free of charge.”

    EN; validated Spanish adaptation. Staff/demographic sections are optional for scale validity, keeping the core within the length limit. Published timing corroborated by CEBC.

    Form
  • Parental Stress Scale (PSS) Free, with conditions 18 items, about <10 min

    License: “The PSS is in the public domain”

    EN; translations. The source also requires permission for adaptations or derivatives and asks users to register use with the author; treat those conditions as operative. Different from the paid Parenting Stress Index and from Cohen's Perceived Stress Scale.

    Form
  • Family APGAR Free, with conditions 5 items, about 1-2 min

    License: “in the public domain and can be used without further permission”

    EN; Spanish, Chinese, Japanese. Developers should be acknowledged. This statement comes from IFNA's measure review, not an opened original-owner license. Measures perceived satisfaction; it should not be treated as a definitive diagnosis of family dysfunction.

    Form

I.) Number of Individuals Served in program(s) (#) | II.) Target (#) | III.) Actual Results (#) | IV.) Percentage Achieving Outcome [III/ I = IV ] (% auto calculated) | V.) Performance Target Accuracy (III/II = V] (% auto calculated)

Instrument
CSBG Annual Report v2.1 (OMB-approved information collection, reginfo.gov objectID 171328201)
Reporting
annual (federal fiscal year)
Target
Applicant proposes the target
Source document, DOCX Individual and Family Level – Module 4 > Education and Cognitive Development (FNPI 2); top-level table 67

Grantee precedent for this measure

2 paired precedent measures. Pairing basis is shown on each.

Number of conditions of poverty reduced.

Community Services Block Grant, OMB PART assessments (ExpectMore.gov archive)

Paired by name_equal. 3 rows in the source.

Attainment (result ÷ promised) by kind of promised value
Promised value isResultsGranteesPeriodsMedianMiddle halfAt or above target
target printed beside the result212116%106% to 125%50%
0%target200%+

Example rows (results with a target first)

3 shown

  • Community Services Block Grant · 2005

    20 million → 27 million (135% of target)

    Source document
  • Community Services Block Grant · 2006

    28 million → 27 million (96% of target)

    Source document
  • Community Services Block Grant · 2004

    Baseline → 20 million

    Source document
Example rows (results with a target first), 3 shown
GranteePeriodPromisedActualUnit% of targetSource
Community Services Block Grant200520 million27 million135%document
Community Services Block Grant200628 million27 million96%document
Community Services Block Grant2004Baseline20 million–document

Reduce total grantee and sub-grantee CSBG administrative expenditures per individual served.

Community Services Block Grant, OMB PART assessments (ExpectMore.gov archive)

Paired by name_equal. 3 rows in the source.

No rows for this measure carry both a promised value and a result, so no attainment is computed.

Example rows (results with a target first)

3 shown

Example rows (results with a target first), 3 shown
GranteePeriodPromisedActualUnit% of targetSource
Community Services Block Grant2004Baseline$9.61$–document
Community Services Block Grant2005N/A$8.98$–document
Community Services Block Grant2006N/A$8.36$–document