A.    Utilization of and redirection of and to Community Resources

        Partnering to maximize collaboration and linkages between an agency and the community with an emphasis on engaging the community in helping in the protection of children.

        Community includes entities like court, board, family first council, MRDD, Mental Health, schools, kinship, foster parents, neighborhoods, family to family . .

B.         Organization Development

        Developing and integrating a structure that effectively supports the mission, the agency and the staff.

        This includes emphasis on things like common vision, mission, shared values, skill building, leadership development, continuous improvement, building ownership so that people take responsibility, quality assurance, organizing people around the work, allocating people in the right configurations given the nature of the work, getting people meaningfully involved in the continuing development of the organization and its core business.

C.         Fiscal Management

        Working to secure, maintain and maximize the funds available and to use them to best advantage

        This includes things like getting funding, reallocating funding, changes in placement $, pooling funding. Richland will distribute their definition for review at the next ILF.

D.         Data Driven Management/Decision Making

        Integrating a fundamentally sound, systematic process for collecting, interpreting and utilizing relevant data to drive decision-making at every level.