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Work Plan Detail K -- Item 19, Worker Visits with Child
Goal: Reduce caseload size
K1 ACTION STEPS: Continue annual request for additional staff with a goal of making incremental steps towards meeting CWLA
staffing standards.
START
DATE
COMPLETION
DATE
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON(S)
MEASURABLE
BENCHMARKS
Sept. 2001 June 2004 Commissioner Jim Martin, Governor,
Georgia Legislature
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Support and advocate for: 2000 supplement -- 171
positions; 2002 -- 100 positions; 2003 -- 100 positions
1st and 2nd Quarter Report: The DHR Commissioner and the DHR Board of Directors supported a budgetary request for additional
staff. Governor Perdue in his proposed budget indicated a willingness to support additional staff during the 2003 legislative session,
which began 1/15/03.
3 rd Quarter Report: Achieved. Besides the 100 positions obtained in 2002 and 2003, the Department received 125 positions in 2004.
4 th Quarter Federal Response: The State is relying on legislative approval for additional staff. What is the contingency plan for the
State if the proposed budget/staff requests are not approved.
5 th Quarter Report: The additional 125 positions were received in SFY '04 (July 2003). Effective the first of February 2004, 65 State
Office staff was deployed to specifically identified county offices needing immediate attention with case management and supervisory
functions. These were temporary 90-day reassignments. Plans are in place to restructure State DFCS to permanently reduce the State
Office workforce and return these positions to county and regional offices.
BARRIERS TO ACHIEVEMENT:
1 st and 2 nd Quarter Report: Economic down turn in Georgia may prohibit the authorization of staff as recommended.
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Safe Future – A Plan for Program Improvement
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March, 2004 Quarter 5 – Work Plan K Page 1