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Deepa Avula, CSAT, SAMHSA, 1 Choke Cherry Road, Rockville, MD 20857, 240-276-2961, deepa.avula@samhsa.hhs.gov

The Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) passed on 1993 to ensure accountability for the spending of federal funds. The purpose of this paper is to examine the way in which The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), has chosen to use this Act and the collection of data to support it.

This paper will explore CSAT's various uses of the GPRA data at a number of different levels. CSAT has over 500 Services grantees, many of whom use the data to enhance their program and guide their local program evaluations. How can these data be used to enhance services? Hs this been done before? What can grantees learn about their programs through the use of these data?

Federal Project Officers use the data for performance management/monitoring purposes. The paper will describe the ways in which these data have been used to assist the Project Officer in managing their grant portfolios and also describe the process by which funding decisions are made based on these data. What reports are available to Project Officers? How can they use these reports to inform discussions with their grantees?

The next level of use for the GPRA data is at the Congressional and Department level. The agency gets great benefit from the collection of these data and has been able to use this information to justify dollars being put into its programs.

Learning Objectives:

• 1. Identify SAMHSA’s required performance measures
• 2. Describe how performance measures are used at National and State levels to inform program and policy directions.
• 3. Describe the factors that contribute to program costs and how substance abuse prevention cost bands can be used to meet efficiency requirements

Keywords: Performance Measures,

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No