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2.4 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 if goals, objectives, and outcomes are being achieved and if adjustments need to be made to your project. Performance assessments should be used to also determine whether your project is having the intended impact on disparities in access, service use, and outcomes. 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. Annual progress reports will be submitted to Federal staff within sixty days after the end of each grant year. 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: Outcome Questions: o What was the effect of training and technical assistance on participants? o What program/contextual factors were associated with outcomes? o What individual factors were associated with outcomes, including race/ethnicity? o How durable were the effects? Process Questions: o What processes were in place to ensure continuous quality improvement? o How closely did implementation match the plan for delivery of training and technical assistance? o What types of changes were made to the originally proposed plan? o What led to the changes in the original plan? o What effect did the changes have on the planned training, technical assistance, and performance assessment? o Who provided (program staff) what services (modality, type, intensity, duration), to whom (individual characteristics), in what context (system, community), and at what cost (facilities, personnel, dollars)? No more than 10% ($459,900 for SS/HS and $157,200 for Project LAUNCH) of the total grant award may be used for data collection, performance measurement, 14
and performance assessment, e.g., activities required in Section I-2.3 and Section 2.4 above. 2.5 Grantee Meetings The grantee must plan to send a minimum of two people (including the Project Director) to at least one grantee meeting in each year of the grant. You must include a detailed budget and narrative for this travel in your budget. At these meetings, the grantee will present the results of their project and Federal staff will provide technical assistance. Each meeting will be 2 days. These meetings are usually held in the Washington, D.C., area and attendance is mandatory. II. AWARD INFORMATION Proposed budgets cannot exceed $6.171 million in total costs (direct and indirect) for each year of the proposed project. Note: Applicants may request up to $4.599 million per year for four years for the SS/HS activities and up to $1.572 million per year for four years for the Project LAUNCH activities. The budget must include a separate column for the use of the Project LAUNCH funds. Grantees will be expected to track and report the SS/HS and Project LAUNCH funds separately. Annual continuation awards will depend on the availability of funds, grantee progress in meeting project goals and objectives, timely submission of required data and reports, and compliance with all terms and conditions of award. Funding estimates for this announcement are based on the FY 2013 Continuing Resolution, as reduced by sequestration. Applicants should be aware that final funding amounts are subject to the availability of funds. This award will be made as a cooperative agreement. Cooperative Agreement These awards are being made as cooperative agreements because they require substantial post-award federal programmatic participation in the conduct of the project. Under this cooperative agreement, the roles and responsibilities of grantees and SAMHSA staff are: Role of Grantee: • Work with SAMHSA government project officers in the development and implementation of all areas of activities supported by the grant; • Secure the input and approval of the SAMHSA government project officers for activities associated with outreach to relevant organizations, and other key activities outlined in the this grant announcement; 15
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