Detailed Guidance

This FEDTalk describes OFA’s expectations for hiring key project positions. Along with sample job descriptions, ACF’s guidance includes information on the skills and experiences to focus on when hiring a Project Director, Project Manager, Financial Officer, and Data Manager.  

This guidance developed by ACF includes information about can and cannot be provided as a program incentive, limitations of incentive costs, and recording incentives in nFORM.

This OFA FEDTalk describes OFA’s expectations for HMRF grantees’ support of individuals and the definition of substantive individual service contacts. 

This manual provides the measure selection criteria and performance measure surveys for the 2020 HMRF grant cohort. This document also includes detailed appendices that list each question and its source for every survey. 

This document provides answers to common questions about the IRB process. Please note that this resource was updated in January 2024 to include additional information about CQI, local evaluations, participation in federal evaluations, and addressing clients who revoke consent.

This documents provides answers to common questions about using nFORM 2.0 to manage local evaluations.

This is a PDF of privacy information to provide to clients.

This template guides HMRF grantees through the key stages of data collection using nFORM 2.0 to help plan ahead and train staff so that data collection runs as smoothly as possible.

This manual provides complete step-by-step instructions for using nFORM.

This manual describes best practices for collecting data with nFORM, and describes special data collection scenarios.