How does AoA use Data? Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and PART AoA Performance Budget Congressional Budg

1. Title VINational Training and Technical Assistance Forum and Listening SessionTitle VI Program EvaluationMay 1, 2007 Bob HornyakU.S. Administration on Aging

2. How does AoA use Data? • Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 and PART • AoA Performance Budget • Congressional Budget Justification • Program Evaluations • Information for other Federal and non-Federal organizations • Information for general public

3. The data that grantees provide to AoA show that the programs and services provided through the Older Americans Act are achieving the intended results.

4. AoA focuses on three areas of performance measurement: • Improve Program Efficiency • Improve Client Outcomes • Improve Effective Targeting to Vulnerable Elders

5. Performance measures: • help show how the programs are structured, • what processes or procedures are actually done, and • what the program is producing.

6. Performance measures tell us whether the goals of the program are being met. Measures fall primarily into four categories: • Inputs • Outputs • Outcomes • Impacts

7. “Inputs” – refer to things thatthe system uses to make other things happen. Examples: • Funding – OAA and other federal funds, local community funds, private and nonprofit funds • People - AoA, SUA, AAA, Tribes, Community Service Providers, Volunteers • Technology – Strategic use of information technology • Laws – Related legislation, Executive Orders, policies, and regulations

8. “Outputs” refer to specific things that the program will produce immediately. Examples: • number of trainings • number of people served • units/hours of services • expenditures

9. “Outcomes” refer to the results of the outputs, usually expressed as an increase or a decrease. Examples: • percentage increase in people served through home and community-based services • improved knowledge • increase in the proportion of expenditures on HCBS rather than institutional care.

10. Input Output Outcome Impact

11. “Impact” refers to the overall or long term goal attainment: • Improved health and well-being of elders and their caregivers

12. The Aging Network Administration on Aging Title VI Organizations (238) Serving Older Native Americans • Information/ Assistance and Outreach • 1 million hours empowering elders to make informed choices • Transportation Services • 892,000 rides to meal sites, medical appointments and other critical activities • Native American Family Caregiver Support Program • Over 4,300 caregivers receiving services • Home Delivered Nutrition • 2.3 million meals • Congregate Nutrition • 1.9 million meals • In-Home Services • 1 million hours of personal care, chore, home health, homemaker • Funding • $32,353,000

21. Serving Elders at Risk (1995 – Title VI): • More than 50% of congregate meal recipients had incomes at or below the poverty level. • For 45% of congregate meal recipients, the congregate meal was the major or only source of food for the day. • 28% of home delivered meal recipients were elders living alone. • 29% of congregate meal recipients were elders living alone.

22. Efficiency: Title VI Services increase the number of units of service provided to elders per thousand dollars of AoA funding: FY 2004 (252) FY 2005 (255)

23. Let’s talk about: Inputs, Outputs, Outcomes, Impacts and Plans