Review of Data Reporting for Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants
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Revises the data collection and reporting rules for federal Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant recipients. The changes apply to the new 2025 grant cohort, which is expected to start collecting and reporting performance data in April 2026. Grant recipients would face fewer reporting steps, including no applicant characteristics survey and no quarterly program operations reports in the first three quarters. They would still collect entrance and exit survey data, service delivery data, and annual performance information. Public comments are due June 3, 2026.
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Key Changes
- Removes the applicant characteristics survey at program enrollment
- Ends required program operations reports after the first, second, and third quarters of each grant year
- Updates entrance and exit surveys, adds Spanish translations, and keeps annual performance reporting
Obligations
What this law requires
Collect and report ACF-approved HMRF performance measures covering program operations, service delivery, and participant characteristics and outcomes for the 2025 Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant cohort.
Administer program entrance surveys to participants at enrollment using the applicable version: HM Adults, HM Youth, RF Community-Based Fathers, or RF Reentering Fathers.
Administer program exit surveys to participants at program completion using the applicable version: HM Adults, HM Youth, RF Community-Based Fathers, or RF Reentering Fathers.
Enter entrance survey and exit survey data into ACF’s web-based nFORM performance measures system to support data collection, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation.
Collect and report service delivery data for HMRF program participants, with program length reported using the median program length approach reflected in the revised burden estimate.