Local Performance Assessment Clause Samples

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees must periodically review the performance data they report to ▇▇▇▇▇▇ (as outlined above), assess their progress, and use this information to improve management of their grant projects. The assessment should be designed to help you determine whether you are achieving the goals, objectives, and outcomes you intend to achieve and whether adjustments need to be made to your project. Performance assessments also should be used to determine whether your project is having/will have the intended impact on behavioral health disparities. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in a performance assessment report to be submitted at least annually. You will also be required to participate in monthly conference calls with a project officer to discuss current progress as well as for review and feedback about performance assessments. At a minimum, your performance assessment should include the required performance measures identified above. In addition, grantees must submit answers to the following questions in their quarterly reports to the SAMHSA GPO: • Within the grant catchment area, how did the activities of the grant impact suicide deaths and non-fatal suicide attempts, including suicide deaths and attempts within key sectors such as health and behavioral health? • How has the competence/confidence of health and behavioral health clinical staff changed over the course of the grant? In particular, how have the grant activities impacted clinical skills in the areas of: • assessment of suicide risk and protective factors; • formulation of a risk summary to inform the choice of intervention; • use of best practice interventions to ensure safety including lethal means safety, treatment of suicide risk, and follow-up to ensure continuity of care? • How have the grant activities impacted the grantee’s success in achieving the objectives of the NSSP they are trying to implement, including Goals 8 and 9? You may also consider outcome and process questions, such as the following: • What was the effect of the intervention on key outcome goals? • What program/contextual/cultural/linguistic factors were associated with outcomes? • What individual factors were associated with outcomes, including race/ethnicity/sexual orientation/gender identity? • How durable were the effects? • Was the intervention effective in maintaining the project outcomes at six-month follow-up? As appropriate, describe h...

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees must periodically review the performance data they report to SAMHSA (as required above), assess their progress, and use this information to improve management of their grant projects. The community readiness assessment is designed to help determine whether you are achieving the goals, objectives and outcomes you intend to achieve and whether adjustments need to be made to your project. Community readiness assessments should be used also to determine whether your project is having/will have the intended impact on behavioral health disparities. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in a performance assessment report to be submitted annually. Grantees should use the community readiness assessment to find out: • Whether they are reaching the goals they set for the grant. • Whether the grant is having the impact they want it to have in their community. • Whether community readiness scores are rising in key dimensions. • Whether they need to make adjustments to their project. Grantees will be required to report on their progress, challenges they’ve faced, and what they’ve done to overcome those challenges in a report that should be submitted at least two times per grant year. The grantee’s SAMHSA Government Project Officer will work with them on the format of this report after the grant has been awarded. No more than 20 percent of the total grant award may be used for data collection, performance measurement, and performance assessment, e.g., activities required in Sections I-2.3 and 2.4 above. Be sure to include these costs in your proposed budget (see Appendix II).

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees must periodically review the performance data they report to SAMHSA (as required above) and assess their progress and use this information to improve management of their grant projects. The assessment should be designed to help you determine whether you are achieving the goals, objectives and outcomes you intend to achieve and whether adjustments need to be made to your project. Performance assessments should be used also to determine whether your project is having/will have the intended impact on behavioral health disparities. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in a performance assessment report to be submitted at least annually. The performance assessment report should be included in your annual and final reports. If performance problems are identified, the GPO may direct the grantee to conduct more frequent assessments or ask for additional items/clarifying information. At a minimum, your performance assessment should include the required performance measures identified above. You may also consider outcome and process questions, such as the following:

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees must develop an Evaluation Plan as part of the Comprehensive Expansion Plan to be submitted six months after award. The Evaluation Plan should be designed to help grantees assess their progress and use this information to improve management of their grant. The assessment should be designed to help you determine whether you are achieving the goals, objectives, and outcomes you intend to achieve and whether adjustments need to be made to your project. Performance assessments should also be used to determine whether your project is having/will have the intended impact on behavioral health disparities. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in an Evaluation Report to be submitted annually. Your Evaluation Plan (and Reports) must include both process and outcomes evaluation components. Examples of process evaluation components include: number of providers or stakeholders trained; number of products developed; technical assistance provided to communities or partners; partnerships/collaborative activities initiated; numbers of children/parents screened and number of children/families served. As part of the outcome evaluation, all grantees must also select one systems outcome, one child or family outcome, and a community- or population-level indicator for at least one of the identified outcomes. Examples of systems outcomes grantees might consider include: measures of collaboration;, social network analyses; workforce development outcomes such as changes in provider practice; policy changes; and infrastructure changes such as the development of integrated data systems. Examples of child/family outcomes that grantees might consider include: improved parent-child interactions; decreased parental stress; decreased parental depression; improvements in children’s social skills; and decreased child behavior problems. Examples of community- or population-level indicators include: rates of children expelled from child care; rates of parental depression; and proportion of policies focused on child health and safety. Grantees must measure outcomes using the most rigorous methods feasible, and must include the collection of baseline data. The Evaluation Plan requires review and approval by the Government Project Officer. The annual Evaluation Reports will be reviewed by the Government Project Officer and discussed with the grantee annually. No less than 15 percent and no more than 20 per...

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees must periodically review the performance data they report to SAMHSA (as required above) and assess their progress and use this information to improve management of their grant projects. The assessment should be designed to help you determine whether you are achieving the goals, objectives, and outcomes you intend to achieve and whether adjustments need to be made to your project. Performance assessments should be used also to determine whether your project is having/will have the intended impact on behavioral health disparities. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in a performance assessment report to be submitted at least annually. At a minimum, your performance assessment should include the required performance measures identified above. You may also consider outcome and process questions, such as the following: No more than 20 percent of the total grant award may be used for data collection, performance measurement, and performance assessment, e.g., activities required in Sections I-2.4 and 2.5 above. Be sure to include these costs in your proposed budget (see Appendix II).

Local Performance Assessment. Grantees are required to review the performance data they report to SAMHSA (as required above) to assess their progress and use this information to improve the management of their grant projects. The performance assessment currently required will need to also include any of the enhancement/expansion activities that occur as a result of this grant. You will be required to report on your progress achieved, barriers encountered, and efforts to overcome these barriers in a performance assessment report to be submitted at least annually. The performance assessment for this project will be included in the current assessment that is submitted annually to SAMHSA as a supplement to the continuation application. No more than 20 percent of the up to 25 percent expended for state infrastructure may be used by the grantee for data collection, performance measurement, and performance assessment, e.g., activities required in Sections I-2.2 and 2.3 above. Each sub-awardee may use up to 10 percent of its funds for data collection and performance measurement, and performance assessment (see Sections I-2.2 and 2.3).