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Salisbury -Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. c. Agency's Board Members: 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; • Identify specific improvements, or results, to be achieved among low-income people and the community; and • Organize and implement programs, services, and activities, such as advocacy, within the agency and among 'partnering" organizations, to achieve anticipated results. During the implementation of planning, the Board of Directors decide on whether it is necessary to abandon any programs, discontinue serving a particular population or provided specific services. This gives opportunity to determine goal achievement, during which time the agency can report and evaluate goal progress and compare progress to benchmarks. The strategic planning process also provides opportunity for the agency to then self -assess to determine what adjustments need to be made to the plan in an effort to stay current on the needs of the community, and remain an organization that is cognizant of the needs of the low-income community in order to proactively strategize against and eliminate the causes of poverty. 2. Describe your agency's method and criteria for identifying poverty causes and list the identified causes. Also, describe the methods and criteria used to determine priority and selection of strategies to be implemented that will address the poverty causes. Our agency identifies poverty causes by staying abreast of current local, state and national poverty reports, and staying active members of the North Carolina and National Community Action Agency Association. Another method used to identify poverty is assessing the needs of the low-income community as well as the agencies and organizations who serve them. The 2017 Community -wide strategic planning and needs assessment conducted for our agency included feedback from low- income individuals in our service areas, and community organizations serving those individuals about the socio-economic landscape of our counties and state. The Salisbury -Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. (SRCAA) 2017 Community -Wide Strategic Planning and Needs Assessment provides information and analysis on issues relating to poverty in the agency's core service areas. Community Partners, members of the faith based community, public and private sectors were surveyed to obtain the most up-to-date information on their assessments of conditions and changes in the agency's service areas. Qualitative data was gathered and presented in the Community Needs Assessment by way of the following: Fiscal Year 2018-19 Community Services Block Grant Application Page 11 of 37 Attachment number 2 hn F-6 Page 99