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Annual Progress Report & State Plan Update

This document provides proposed updates to the Annual Progress Report for FY 2020-2022, updates to the State Plan for FY 2018-2020, and highlights of historical data trends. It also includes revisions targeted to address areas of data inconsistency, clarifications in categorization, and elimination of rarely used or misunderstood data elements.

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Annual Progress Report & State Plan Update

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  1. Annual Progress Report & State Plan Update Dr. Diane Cordry Golden March 2019

  2. Topics • Proposed Updates to Annual Progress Report (for FY 2020-2022) • State Plan for FY 2018-2020 Update • Historical Data Highlights/Trends

  3. Updates to next APR (FY2020-2022) • Proposed revisions targeted to -- • Address areas of data inconsistency • Clarify categorizations/taxonomy application • Eliminate data elements or exclusions rarely used or prone to misunderstanding • Revised Instruction Manual • Updated AT Type Taxonomy • Eliminated duplication between APR and Instruction Manual

  4. Proposed Update – State Financing • Require “investment” description for partnership financial loans reported with no interest buy-down or guarantee • State AT Program must have some kind of subsidy or other “investment” in partnership loans reported in APR • Most common is low-interest rate (prime or less) obtained via written agreement • If loans are not low-interest, must provide description of subsidy/investment

  5. Proposed Update - Exchange • Eliminate option for automatic exclusion of all exchange recipients from performance measure • Programs will need some kind of intermediary role to collect performance measure data and report exchange events • Can exclude any reuse event (including exchange) when collecting performance measure is not appropriate because recipient cannot legitimately respond because they have legal obligation to provide AT (e.g. VR, IDEA, Medicaid, etc.)

  6. Proposed Update – Device Loan • Separate decision-making from other purposes in Borrower Type and AT Device Type

  7. Proposed Update – Device Loan • Separate decision-making from other purposes in Borrower Type and AT Device Type Number of Borrowers by Type equals Purpose

  8. Proposed Update – Device Loan (cont.) AT Type total greater than or equal to purpose

  9. Proposed Update - Demonstration • Add separate decision-maker identification to participant data • Each demo event has one AT type and one decision-maker participant type identified who completes performance measure

  10. Proposed Update - Leveraged Funding • Delete Section B. AT Act authorized activity not included in State Plan (no APR data reported) • Add selection for data reported/not reported • In State Plan, data not reported needs narrative • Use notes to report activity not in State Plan and why

  11. Proposed UpdateAcquisition Performance Measure • Maintain current area calculations & eliminate 75% targets • Add new overall calculation with ACL target = 85% • Unable to afford or otherwise obtain AT without State AT Program

  12. Proposed UpdateAccess Performance Measure • Maintain current area calculations & eliminate 70% targets • Add new overall calculation for ACL target = 90% • Positive decision-making through State AT Program

  13. Proposed UpdateOverall Satisfaction Measure • Maintain current activity satisfaction calculations • Add new overall calculation and ACL targets • Sum of all four state level activity satisfaction tables • 95% Target for sum of highly satisfied + satisfied • 90% Target for overall response rate

  14. State Plan Update • Last complete State Plan for AT was FY 2015-17 • Original version posted on CATADA with grantee profile • Updates formally done for FY16 and 17, informally since • Program participation page kept current on CATADA • Last approved State Plan serves as approved application until replaced • New State Plan form approved for FY 2018-20 • ACL developing online collection tool • Current status

  15. Data Trends – Use Your Data • Add prior year above data to APR and ask for explanation of change? • Actual variance – what is cause? • Reflection of data fidelity issues/corrections? • Reflection of data system integrity issues?

  16. Next Steps • Share feedback on proposed APR changes • Watch for State Plan updates • Participate in Using Your Data session and understand your data changes. • CATADA – Diane Golden diane.golden@ataporg.org • ACL – Rob Groenendaal Robert.Groenendaal@acl.hhs.gov

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