Government regulations set goals that clients participate a specified number of hours in specialized groups of activities. A&T includes features to associate activities to groups of activities (federal components) to facilitate tracking and regulatory reporting. Initial content is provided for components for both Cash Assistance and Food Assistance. Government regulations further break down the specialized groups of activities into sub categories called core and non-core activities. Agencies can configure the federal components and if they are considered core or non-core. For Cash Assistance, activities are mapped to federal components as part of initial content. For Food Assistance federal components are provided as part of initial content; however, because no activities (services or actions or referrals) are provided as initial content, no mapping of components to activities is provided. Agencies can configure Food Assistance activities as desired.
In viewing participation, if an activity is associated with a federal component that is configured as Core, then the hours are listed in the Core column. Likewise if an activity is associated with a federal component that is configured as Non-Core, the hours are listed in the Non-Core column. Activities that are not associated with a federal component are listed in the Other Hours column.