Safe Futures A Plan for Program Improvement - Department of ...
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Work <strong>Plan</strong> Detail L -- Item 20, Worker Visits with Parents<br />
Goal: Reduce caseload size<br />
L1 ACTION STEPS: Continue annual request <strong>for</strong> additional staff with a goal <strong>of</strong> making incremental steps towards meeting CWLA<br />
staffing standards.<br />
START<br />
DATE<br />
COMPLETION<br />
DATE<br />
RESPONSIBLE<br />
PERSON(S)<br />
MEASURABLE<br />
BENCHMARKS<br />
Sept. 2001 June 2004 Commissioner Jim Martin, Governor,<br />
Georgia Legislature<br />
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:<br />
Support and advocate <strong>for</strong>: 2000 supplement -- 171<br />
positions; 2002 -- 100 positions; 2003 -- 100 positions<br />
1st and 2nd Quarter Report: The DHR Commissioner and the DHR Board <strong>of</strong> Directors supported a budgetary request <strong>for</strong> additional<br />
staff. Governor Perdue in his proposed budget indicated a willingness to support additional staff during the 2003 legislative session,<br />
which began 1/15/03.<br />
3 rd Quarter Report: Achieved. Besides the 100 positions obtained in 2002 and 2003, the <strong>Department</strong> received 125 positions in 2004.<br />
3rd Quarter Federal Response: When is the next annual request due?<br />
4 th Quarter Update: See 4 th Quarter Barrier Statement.<br />
4 th Quarter Federal Response: State is behind in completion date <strong>of</strong> this action step. See comments on K1.<br />
5 th Quarter Report: The additional 125 positions were received in SFY '04 (July 2003). Effective the first <strong>of</strong> February 2004, 65 State<br />
Office staff was deployed to specifically identified county <strong>of</strong>fices needing immediate attention with case management and supervisory<br />
functions. These were temporary 90-day reassignments. <strong>Plan</strong>s are in place to restructure State DFCS to permanently reduce the State<br />
Office work<strong>for</strong>ce and return these positions to county and regional <strong>of</strong>fices.<br />
BARRIERS TO ACHIEVEMENT:<br />
1 st and 2 nd Quarter Report: Economic down turn in Georgia may prohibit the authorization <strong>of</strong> staff as recommended.<br />
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<strong>Safe</strong> <strong>Futures</strong> – A <strong>Plan</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Program</strong> <strong>Improvement</strong><br />
Georgia <strong>Department</strong> human Resources<br />
March, 2004 Quarter 5 – Work <strong>Plan</strong> L Page 1
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