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CCDF Program Readiness Check
Designed for state and local CCDF agencies, this tool summarizes your agency's readiness to strengthen program integrity. Once completed, results can be emailed to you. Rate your agency's capabilities across 32 statements. Your readiness phase calculates automatically — submit your email at the end to receive your personalized report.
The CCDF Program Readiness Check is highly aligned with our white paper, CCDF Program Integrity and Audit Readiness: A Practical Framework for States. Read the full paper
⚠️Please answer all 32 questions before continuing.
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How to use: Rate each statement 1–3. Scores update live. Complete all 32 questions, then click "Continue to Scoring Summary" or "Email Me My Results." The readiness check takes 3-5 minutes to complete.
SCORING:
1 = Not in place
2 = Partially in place
3 = Fully in place
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People
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We have identified program integrity leads across policy, operations, monitoring, audit, legal, and IT.
2
Roles and responsibilities for program integrity are clearly defined across divisions.
3
Staff understand the CCDF risk landscape (eligibility errors, provider anomalies, data silos, bottlenecks).
4
Staff receive regular training on red flags, documentation integrity, and improper payments.
5
Monitoring and audit staff use consistent tools, forms, and criteria during reviews.
6
We have capacity (or staff augmentation) to address backlogs, monitoring cycles, and federal reporting.
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We can clearly demonstrate how CCDF quality dollars translate into documented, defensible outcomes.
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Fiscal and program staff coordinate to ensure payments reflect actual, allowable work performed.
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Process
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We have a documented risk assessment identifying our highest integrity risks.
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We maintain a red-flag catalog for eligibility, attendance, provider compliance, and documentation anomalies.
11
We conduct onsite independent audits using standardized sampling methods and evidence-collection tools.
12
We conduct remote monitoring using digital submissions, logs, and trend dashboards.
13
We have defined improper payment monitoring processes supported by sampling plans and trend analysis.
14
We have a corrective action framework for findings, including follow-up timelines.
15
Our policies align eligibility, licensing, quality, and payment processes to prevent gaps or contradictions.
16
Quality and partner contracts are included in the agency's program integrity risk check.
17
We annually reassess which contracts present higher financial or reputational risk and their return on quality investment.
18
Quality contracts clearly define allowable activities, deliverables, and performance expectations.
19
Contract payment structures align with verifiable deliverables rather than unsupported volume or self-reported activity.
20
Contracts include documentation, reporting, allowable use of funds, and audit cooperation requirements.
21
Contracts include remedies for non-performance, improper billing, or compliance issues.
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Supporting documentation is required and reviewed prior to payment.
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We monitor quality payments for reasonableness, duplication, and consistency with contract scope.
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Technology
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We use electronic time & attendance with secure authentication.
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Eligibility data is interoperable with licensing, quality, and payment systems.
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Our systems connect to external verification sources (wage/employment, SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, vital records).
27
We have a unified data dictionary and documented data mapping across CCDF domains.
28
Program integrity dashboards show red flags, trends, and risk scores.
29
We use AI-assisted analytics for anomaly detection and advanced risk analysis.
30
OCR is used for document intake to reduce manual effort and errors.
31
We assess the reliability and accuracy of partner-reported data used for decision-making or federal reporting.
32
Partner data is integrated or reconciled with CCDF systems where appropriate.
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Score Distribution
Stabilize & Establish
Score: 0–50
Your agency is in the early stages of building a program integrity infrastructure. Agencies should focus on rapid risk assessment, assigning clear program integrity ownership, stabilizing staffing capacity and establishing baseline monitoring and improper payment metrics.
Your agency has laid important groundwork and now the challenge is connecting the pieces. Agencies in this phase often have strong individual practices that haven't yet been systematized or linked across the agency. Focus on building a repeatable, defensible program integrity infrastructure that supports federal reporting, audit readiness, and consistent corrective action.
Your agency has built a strong program integrity infrastructure. Agencies in this phase are often managing complex systems and processes. The question now is how to sustain and sharpen it. Agencies in this phase use data and automation to optimize resource allocation, reduce administrative burden, and strengthen compliance while maintaining equitable access.
