Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Data Collaborative Small Group Discussions

OMB Control Number: 0970-0401, Expiration Date: June 30/2024.

TANF DATA COLLABORATIVE PILOT INITIATIVE

SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION

APRIL 2023 VIRTUAL REUNION

The purpose of the small group sessions at the virtual reunion is to learn what progress pilot teams have made since the pilot ended in July 2022. This reunion is one year after our last cross pilot convening, so we thought it was a good time to check in. The pilot ended in July 2022 and MDRC would like an update about what knowledge, practices, resources from the 30-month pilot you continue to use in your daily work.

Sharing your progress and what you have sustained within your agency is your choice. There is no penalty for not participating. What you share will not be attributed to any one of you individually. We will use the discussion to inform the final pilot report, a publication that MDRC and Chapin Hall are co-authoring.

Let’s think back to July 2022 when we all logged on for the last time and celebrated all of your work. You made presentations in April and submitted your final project reports in July. We want to pick up the conversation from there and talk about what has happened with your data analytics efforts since then.

In each small group, share your thoughts on the following topics:

1. Current progress: Whether it is your TDC pilot project or other data analytics efforts involving pilot team members, what is happening? What activities are under way? What has continued or changed since July?

2. Current barriers: What, if any, barriers to conducting data analytics projects have you faced or are facing since July? What has stalled or slowed your progress?

3. Future plans: What plans for data analytics do you have moving forward?

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BURDEN:  The purpose of this information collection is to improve the TANF Data Collaborative pilot program and write a report.  Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 15 minutes (.25 hour) per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information.  This is a voluntary collection of information. agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.  The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 06/30/2024.  If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Nicole Deterding.