| Strategic Planning Services:
The NRCOI’s training and technical assistance (T/TA) services help State and Tribal child welfare agencies enhance their understanding of and infrastructure for strategic planning and outcome-based management. Our focus includes:
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Organizational leadership |
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Integrated planning |
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Systemic change, change management, and implementation science research |
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The use of participatory design |
We promote the development of comprehensive and quality plans that link leadership, managers, supervisors and field staff to targeted outcomes and integrated activities. We do this by engaging the commitment of leadership and key stakeholders in the planning process and by helping agencies build their own capacity to develop and implement planning structures and implementation processes that will result in realistic and workable plans.
The NRCOI has developed a framework for strategic planning that is based on four distinct stages:
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Prepare |
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Plan |
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Implement |
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Review/Revise |
This framework is described in detail in our publication, Strategic Planning for Child Welfare Agencies, which is illustrated throughout with examples of how public child welfare agencies have utilized strategic planning. You can also download a one page fact sheet. We have also developed a Strategic Planning Checklist to guide organizations through each stage of the strategic planning process.
Child and Family Service Plans (CFSP)/Annual Progress and Services Reports (APSR)
To assist States and Tribes in planning for and implementing both short- and long-term strategic plans, we focus much of our attention on helping agencies integrate the federal five-year CFSP/APSR with their two-year Program Improvement Plan (PIP). A conference call, co-hosted with the Children’s Bureau in November 2008, highlighted several States and their efforts to more fully integrate the CFSP and CFSR processes. Information and strategies discussed during the call can be found on our CFSR/CFSP Peer Network page.
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