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Community Services Block Grant Program Fiscal Year 2017.18 Application for Funding Planning Process Narrative 1. Explain in detail how each of the following was involved in the planning and development of this strategic plan. a. Low-Income Community: Representatives of the Low-income population are seated on the Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc.'s(SRCAA) Board of Directors to ensure broad community participation and involvement. The Head Start Policy Council Advisory is made up of low-income persons who meet once per month to review programs and to address meeting the needs of the low-income community. Members from that Council are represented on the board, and each representative of the low-income community advocates for the needs of the participants at varying levels. Participants themselves are free to express their concerns with staff and the program director. In addition,they are surveyed during workshops facilitated to improve their personal and professional development. j i A community assessment was completed May,2016. Low income residents were surveyed in all service counties and their feedback(results of the survey)on community needs were integrated in the report. Those results were used in the planning and development of the agency's strategic plan. b. Agency Staff:Staff is encouraged to participate in partnerships and collaborations with community partners and task forces designed to meet the needs of mutually served participants.These partnerships and collaborations offer opportunities for staff to participant in forums to share input and to address causes of poverty,concerns,and resources in low- income communities where staff works. Staff as well as partners serving the same populations was surveyed during the community assessment process.Staff and partner feedback will be considered in the revisions of the strategic plan and the management of service delivery at the Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc.(SRCAA)as part of the strategic plan's Collaboration Project,which is aimed at identifying overlap in the service delivery as well as procedures and processes used by various departments. c. Agency's Board Members:The Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc.'s(SRCAA). Board of Directors whose members volunteer on the Planning and Evaluation committee, in conjunction with the Executive Director, reviews all phases of the strategic planning process and makes recommendations to the full Board of Directors, The Board utilizes the strategic planning process to provide direction for the agency and the staff in order to address that need.The Salisbury-Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. (SRCAA) utilizes the Six National Goals to guide the process. By integrating ROMA into the development of the plan the Board of Directors were able to: • Assess poverty needs and conditions within the community; • Define a clear agency anti-poverty mission for community action and a strategy to address those needs. • Identify both immediate and longer term strategies in the context of existing resources and opportunities in the community; Fiscal Year 2017-18 community Services Block Grant Application Page 10 of 37 Attachment number 2\n F-9 Page 113