Appendix III - Public Health AmeriCorps Performance Measures

Public Health AmeriCorps Performance Measures

Each applicant is required to select at least one aligned performance measure (output paired with outcome) that corresponds to the proposed primary service activity. Each applicant must choose from the following National Performance Measures:

Focus Area

Healthy Futures

Capacity Building

Objective

Access to Care

Capacity Building & Leverage

Section Rules

Outputs

H4A: Number of individuals served

G3-3.4:

Number of organizations that received capacity building services

Section Rules

Outcomes

H17: Number of individuals with increased health knowledge

H18: Number of individuals reporting a change in behavior
or intent to change behavior to improve their health

H19: Number of individuals with improved health

H20: Number of individuals with improved access to medical care

G3-3.10A: Number of organizations that increase their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach*

*Each applicant must describe in detail how it will measure the organizational effectiveness, efficiency, or program scale/reach in meeting the public health needs of the community in the Described Instrument section.

Interventions

Outreach
Education/Training
Referrals
Medical Services
Counseling/Coaching
Opioid/Drug
Intervention/Harm
Reduction
Navigation of Services
COVID
Response/COVID
Recovery

Disaster Preparation
Disaster Response
Disaster Recovery
Disaster Mitigation

Each grantee will also be required to track and report the Performance Data Elements in its annual Grantee Progress Report. The three Performance Data Elements are the number of AmeriCorps members:

  • recruited from the geographic or demographic communities the program operates,
  • with increased knowledge about public health, and
  • who remain in the public health field post-service.