Tennessee’s Office of Evidence and Impact (OEI) defined five evidence steps. The Office also completed inventories of state- and federally-funded program areas including corrections, mental health, substance abuse services, early literacy, labor and workforce, economic development, and higher education as a part of the state’s evidence-based budgeting initiative. Several evidence-based programs are directly administered by state staff and agencies submit updated program outcome data to OEI annually. Currently, 40 of these programs are evidence-based and over $2.3 billion state and federal are invested annually.