Performance Partnership Pilots Hill Briefing

The Performance Partnership Pilots (P3) is a transformational policy innovation that gives selected local, tribal and state agencies unprecedented flexibility to use existing discretionary federal funds in new, locally determined, evidence-informed, collaborative ways that are likely to achieve significant improvements in the lives of disconnected youth (16-24 years olds who are not in school and not employed).

Instead of holding sites accountable for undertaking a specific set of activities proscribed by federal policymakers, P3 instead hands the reins over to local, tribal and/or state agencies to develop their own approaches, providing them the flexibility to connect efforts previously fragmented by narrow federal funding streams. In exchange for the flexibility, the federal government holds the P3 sites accountable for achieving significant, agreed upon outcomes for disconnected youth.

At this Hill briefing you will hear from the first round of P3 sites about their projects, early successes and reflections.

The briefing is designed not only to inform about the P3 initiative for disconnected youth, but also to help congressional staff and advocates consider if a similar performance partnership approach would be beneficial for other populations as well.

Additional information about P3 is available at www.forumfyi.org/P3