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 NPI 1.2 (employment supports) is mutually exclusive to NPI 6.4 (family supports). As
such, no outcome should be reported in both NPI 1.2 and NPI 6.4.
NPIs 1.2 and 6.4 measure identical outcomes for two distinct and separate populations.
Individuals achieving family stability outcomes who are able to work should be reported
in NPI 1.2. Individuals achieving family stability outcomes who are unable to work
should be reported in NPI 6.4.

Conversely, some family stability outcomes may be reported in multiple indicators. The
following reporting practices are allowed:

 NPI 1.2 is not mutually exclusive to NPI 6.2. As such, individuals may have different
outcomes reported in both NPI 1.2 and NPI 6.2. They can have maintenance outcomes
reported in NPI 1.2, and emergency efforts reported in NPI 6.2.

For example, an agency that helps a family with a low-wage worker as the head of
household receive SNAP benefits can report that effort as an outcome in NPI 1.2I. Then,
if the family exhausts its monthly SNAP allotment and receives emergency food
assistance, that effort can be reported in 6.2A.

If the low-wage worker in the example above is replaced by a head of household who is
unable to work, then the outcomes for SNAP benefits would be reported in NPI 6.4F. The
emergency food assistance indicator would still be reported in NPI 6.2A, as all
emergency assistance, whether for families able to work or not able to work, are reported
there.

Note: If the CAA chooses to report an outcome in multiple indicators, the agency must keep track
of why and how this decision was made.

When to Report Outcomes of Referred Participants

Agencies should report outcomes not only resulting from programs and activities that they
administer, but also those outcomes from participants who achieve outcomes as a result of
successful referral to partnering service providers in their community. A successful referral is
one where it has been verified that the individual used the agency’s referral to receive a service
and as a result, achieved an NPI outcome. Once a referral is made, a CAA must remain in
contact with the partner agency in order to track and verify the referred participant’s achievement
of an outcome. Untracked referrals can be reported in NPI 6.5e as a service count only as there is
no way to report an outcome associated with the referred client.

It is also possible that an individual will be referred to a CAA from a partner agency in the
community. In this case, once the individual enrolls in a program administered by the CAA, s/he
becomes a participant of that agency; achievement is reported by the CAA as it occurs.

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