1. Data on funding for prevention of child abuse through family services (PCA-TFS) Janet Rosenzweig, Harvard’s Kennedy School Bill Levis, Urban Institute

2. Purpose of Research Explore potential improvements in the classification by activity of data on grants made by federal agencies to all recipients in a specific state. For Example….. identify all funds coming into all states for activities related to the prevention of child abuse through family support services identify all funds coming into a specific state, by location and category

3. Focus of Research Child Abuse Prevention through family support is a prime example of a public service area that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Relevant funding is available from multiple federal agencies. CFDA codes are the only categorical search.

4. FFATA WWW.USASpending.gov Searchable database of grants, contracts and other types of federal contracts, assistance and other payments. Purpose of grant is identified by CFDA code, which does not articulate what activities the recipient is conducting.

5. Example: CFDA Codes relevant to family support services – manual search results HHS only 93.551: Abandoned Infants 93.995: Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects 93.670: Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities 93.643: Children's Justice Grants to States 93.974: Family Planning Service Delivery Improvement Research Grants 93.974: Family Planning Service Delivery Improvement Research Grants 93.926: Healthy Start Initiative 93.136: Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs 93.136: Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs 93.556: Promoting Safe and Stable Families

6. Example, continued: Non HHS CFDA codes 10.573: Homeless Children’s Nutrition Program AG 10.573: Homeless Children’s Nutrition Program 84.335: Child Care Access Means Parents in School E D 84.335: Child Care Access Means Parents in School 84.360: Dropout Prevention Programs ED 84.360: Dropout Prevention Programs 84.310: Parental Assistance Centers ED 84.310: Parental Assistance Centers 16.730: Reduction and Prevention of Children's Exposure to Violence Justice 16.730: Reduction and Prevention of Children's Exposure to Violence 16.523: Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants 16.547: Victims of Child Abuse Justice 16.547: Victims of Child Abuse

7. USASpending.gov A great tool for searching by Recipient State CFDA code Generates HTML reports on screen Generates downloadable ASCII files

8. Sample Data Elements Recipient Name Recipient City Name Recipient County Name Recipient Zip Code Congressional District Agency Code CFDA Program Number CFDA Program Title

9. Sample Screen Output Recipient name: PREVENT CHILD ABUSE-NEW JERSEY Recipient State: New Jersey Federal dollars: $716,751 Get list of individual transactions for this recipient within this search Get list of individual transactions for this recipient within this search Top 10 Programs Program (link shows description) Federal Dollars 84.31084.310: Parental Assistance Centers $716,751

10. What’s Missing? A description of WHAT activities the recipient is conducting! The addition of activity codes can make this database remarkably useful for state and planning and coordination.

11. Multi-Disciplinary Planning Case in point: Prevent Child Abuse – America has 39 state chapters who develop state-level prevention plans. The potential exists to identify entities with similar mission funded through various federal sources.

12. An Opportunity The continued development of this new website presents an opportunity to further the existing NGP objective of establishing uniform object expense categories and definitions for grant budgeting and reporting by adding uniform activity codes to federal CFDA program classification.

13. For Background Information on NGP’s Uniform Guidelines Initiative In November 2004, the Uniform Guidelines Coalition (co-sponsored by the NGP) released Uniform Data Elements and Definitions for Grant Budgeting and Financial Reporting, Version 1 (UDED) -- http://www.nasact.org/downloads/11_04- UDED_v1.pdfhttp://www.nasact.org/downloads/11_04- UDED_v1.pdf

14. Next Steps for this project:…. Using “Prevention of Child Abuse Through Family Support Services as an example of a multidisciplinary service area: Develop a list of ‘activities’ relevant to the CFDA codes including: An activity code and name The related CFDA codes A definition for the activity Using resources such as the Nonprofit Program Classification system of the Urban Institute/NCCS

15. Possible Next Steps continued…. provide the NGP, Harvard and the Urban Institute with a paper presenting the results When finished, the NGP can consider sending the paper it to www.USASpending.gov and other stakeholders in improving data mining of federal awards.

16. For More Information Bill Levis, Urban Institute Qrlevis@aol.com Janet Rosenzweig, Harvard’s Kennedy School Janet_Rosenzweig@ksg 08. harvard.edu Thank you!