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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (con't)
Program Performance Scorecard
The following scorecard provides performance information for the latest reporting period on a selected number of measures for key programs.
| ACF Program |
Performance Measure | Target Achieved |
Target | Actual | Year/ Data * |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STRATEGIC GOAL #1: INCREASE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY FOR FAMILIES | |||||
| TANF | All states meet the TANF all-families work participation rates. | Y | 100% | 100% | FY 02 |
| TANF | Maintain the increase (from the baseline year) in the percentage of adult TANF recipients who become newly employed. | N | 43% | 36% | FY 02 |
| ADD | Achieve the targeted number of businesses/employers that employand support people with developmental disabilities as a result of DD program intervention. | Y | 3,850 | 5,086 | FY 02 |
| ORR | Increase the percent of 90-day job retention as a subset of all entered employment by at least 3 percent of the prior year's actual performance. | Y | 73.03% | 77.2% | FY 02 |
| ORR | Increase the number of refugees entering employment through the ACF-funded refugee employment services using the ratio of entered employment to the number of refugees receiving services. | Y | 52.03% | 53.45% | FY 02 |
| OCSE | Increase the paternity established percentage among children born out-of-wedlock. | N | 97% | 95% | FY 02 |
| OCSE | Increase percentage of IV-D cases having support orders. | Y | 64% | 70% | FY 02 |
| STRATEGIC GOAL #2: IMPROVE HEALTHY DEVELOPMENT, SAFETY AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH | |||||
| CCB | Increase the number of regulated child care centers and homes nationwide accredited by a nationally recognized early childhood development professional organization. | N | 9,725 | 9,241 | CY 02 |
| HS | Achieve at least an average 32% gain (10 scale points) in word knowledge for children completing the Head Start program. | Y | 32% | 32% | FY 02 |
| HS | Increase the percentage of teachers with AA, BA, advanced degree or a degree in a field related to early childhood education. | Y | 47% | 51% | FY 02 |
| CW | Maintain the percentage of children who exit the foster care system through reunification within one year of placement. | Y | 67% | 68% | FY 02 |
| CW | Increase the number of adoptions. | N | 56,000 | 51,000 | FY 02 |
| Youth | Maintain proportion of youth that contact the National Runaway Switchboard for counseling and referral to safe shelter/other services within the first week of running away. | N | 68% | 65% | FY 02 |
| STRATEGIC GOAL #3: INCREASE THE HEALTH AND PROSPERITY OF COMMUNITIES AND TRIBES | |||||
| CSBG | Increase the non-Federal resources brought into low-income communities by the Community Services Network. | Y | $1.68 | $2.68 | FY 02 |
| FV | Increase the capacity of the National Domestic Violence Hotline to respond to an increase in the average number of calls per month. | Y | 11,500 | 12,500 | FY 02 |
| LIHEAP | Increase the targeting index of LIHEAP recipient households having at least one member 60 years or older compared to non-vulnerable LIHEAP recipient households. | Y | 90:64 | 91:72 | FY 02 |
| LIHEAP | Increase the targeting index of LIHEAP recipient households having at least one member 5 years or under compared to non-vulnerable LIHEAP recipient households. | Y | 109:64 | 110:72 | FY 02 |
| ANA | Increase the number of grants that include elder participation. | Y | 70 | 114 | FY 02 |
| STRATEGIC GOAL #4: MANAGE RESOURCES TO IMPROVE PERFORMANCE | |||||
| OA | Increase ACF's manager-to-staff ratio. | Y | 1:5 | 1.6.5 | FY 03 |
| OA | Obtain a "clean" audit opinion for ACF. | Y | Y | Y | FY 02 |
| * The ACF Performance Scorecard features the most recent available data for select measures in key program areas. (back) | |||||
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