Tip Sheets

This tip sheet provides detailed information on how grant recipients can use nFORM data to monitor and report on their program’s progress towards ACF’s goal of equitable program delivery, including enrollment, workshop and individual services, and survey responses by target demographic groups. 

This OFA FEDTalk describes how ACF and HMRF programs are learning about and investing in diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts for the families they serve. 

During the October 2023 nFORM office hours, the nFORM team provided a tutorial on survey completion and refusal rates, along with techniques to identify potential data quality concerns and enhance survey response and completion rates. The infographic expands on the information provided during the October 2023 nFORM office hours, and includes additional examples of how to monitor and understand survey data.

The nFORM team introduces their new user locking system added to nFORM. They also provide an overview of the economic stability data available throughout nFORM and highlighted the data tools available for effectively monitoring this data. A grantee shared their approach to monitoring economic stability data. Additionally, the tip sheet below expands on the content presented in the office hours tutorial with additional examples about using nFORM to monitor economic stability data. The infographic provides a snapshot of nFORM data on economic stability services provided across grantees through July 31, 2023

This tip sheet maps each type of HMRF performance data in the PPR to relevant nFORM 2.0 tools.

This tip sheet provides detailed steps for accessing and saving the template and tips on how to complete the progress narrative each quarter.

This tip sheet provides detailed information on how workshop participation data is reported in the QPR/PPR. It also explores how grantees can review their progress toward the annual targets they set for ACF’s primary workshop participation (PWP) measures.

This infographic provides answers to common grantee questions on how to use nFORM’s query tool, operational reports, and data export to review and better understand quarterly performance measures that are reported to ACF and support program monitoring and CQI efforts.

This tip sheet provides step-by-step instructions for new users on how to prepare for collecting, entering and monitoring data in nFORM.

This tip sheet provides suggestions for ways that the Query Tool can be used to answer common recruitment and participation data questions.