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The CSBG Network and OCS have made tremendous progress since 2012 to develop and embrace new approaches to accountability and performance management. These new strategies for accountability and performance management will enable us to demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of our work to fulfill the purposes of the CSBG program: to fight poverty, to revitalize low-income communities, and to help poor families achieve self-sufficiency.

Every summer, millions of children who rely on meals through the National School Lunch Program during the school year go hungry.

In our mutual work to combat poverty, the Office of Community Services (OCS) encourages you to identify and work with newly-arriving populations in your communities as part of a new initiative between OCS and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) at the Administration for Children and Families (ACF).

The Office of Community Services (OCS) is requesting feedback from the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Network on the proposed revision of the CSBG State Model Plan Application (Model State Plan).

CSBG Dear Colleague Letter Financial Capability

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia M. Burwell issued a recent letter (attached) referencing President Obama’s launch of the Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) Initiative.  This initiative takes a comprehensive, culturally appropriate approach to ensure all young Native people can reach their full potential.

Within the next several days, we will be officially submitting a final clearance package for the four modules of the Annual Report (attached). The Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) clearance by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) involves a two-stage process including a 60-day comment period (which has been completed) and a 30-day public comment period (which will begin in the next few days).

This is to update you on the ACSI Survey of Eligible Entities.  To date, the CFI Group (the organization administering the survey for OCS), has received several hundred responses to the ACSI Survey for CSBG eligible entities.  We are very excited about that.  However, to provide as much meaningful data as possible to each of the states, we need more local agencies to complete the survey.  We have, therefore, extended the time to respond to the survey to Friday, November 6, 2015.

In collaboration with the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) Network, the Office of Community Services (OCS) developed State and Federal Accountability Measures to track organizational performance of both State CSBG Lead Agencies and OCS.  These measures are part of an enhanced accountability and performance management framework across the CSBG Network.  Beginning this fiscal year, OCS will collect data and prepare to analyze and report on Federal CSBG Accountability Measures.

This message is to provide an update and extend the deadlines for the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) surveys to States and to eligible entities as a part of the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) performance management framework.  The Office of Community Services (OCS) is extending the deadline for both surveys to Friday, December 18, 2015.