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Preface
The Administration for Children and Families is committed to managing for results. Four years ago, we published our first performance plan for fiscal year FY 1999 and last year, we published our first combined performance plan and report. This combined plan and report gives us the ability to display the achievements of past years with future strategic planning and resource decisions. By combining this information in one document, we have created a tool that is useful to ACF management, our partners and stakeholders to begin integrating budget and performance management systems.
The performance information that follows is consistent with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA) requirements and supports ACF’s four goals and related strategic objectives. Our ability to report on actual performance for FY 2000 is dependent on the availability and reliability of administrative performance data submitted by our partners. Over time, we will be able to analyze annual trends and adjust targets and distribution of resources accordingly. Currently our targets for FY 2002 are projections of incremental improvement or maintenance of effort.
This combined corporate plan and report is the result of lengthy conversations, negotiations and collaborative efforts among our fourteen program areas and our partners. The accomplishment of these results is dependent upon the joint efforts of ACF, its partners and coordination with other Federal agencies. The diversity of programs, target populations, levels of government, and range of partners make efforts to establish and achieve goals and outcome measures extremely challenging.
In FY 2000, ACF placed special emphasis on developing priority work plans that were aligned with the annual performance plan results. This effort required both central and regional office staff to identify cross-cutting strategies and activities in collaboration with their partners. These work plans include more detailed strategies and activities covering ten cross-cutting program areas: welfare reform, child support, child care, infants and toddlers, Head Start, child welfare, youth, Tribal programs, domestic violence and ACF reinvention efforts.
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