Professional Capacity Committee 2003-2004 Annual Report

Professional Capacity Committee

Annual Report

June 18, 2004

 

The Professional Capacity Committee met ten out of the twelve months during FY 2003-04 accomplishing the majority of its goals. The role of the committee is to build the professional capacity of county directors, and state and local county departments of social services staff. The Committee accomplishes this by implementing goals and strategies from the NCACDSS Strategic Plan which are appropriate to the Committee's scope of work or as assigned by the President.

 

The Professional Capacity Committee identified several critical issues facing county DSS agencies and focused its attention on developing training venues specific to those needs. Committee activities for the year are as follows:

 

• Eight Regional Meetings, the Social Services Institute, three Fiscal Conferences, the Building Success Conference, the Annual Directors Meeting, and three Methamphetamine Conferences were offered during 2003-04. The combination of conferences reaching close to 2000 participants.
• New Director/Senior Management Training offered at both the Social Services Institute in November 2003 and the Building Success Conference in April 2004
• New Director Orientation to NCACDSS and DHHS was hosted in June 2004
• A “Mentor Assignment Program” for new directors was implemented
• a DSSManagers listserve was created to enhance communication between supervisors and program managers with different counties
• A Central Region was created for directors and their management teams
• A Professional Capacity Coordinator was hired to assist with the training demands placed on the committee as well as to diversify funding sources for conference/training implementation.
• Training is being developed for District Representatives as identified by the committee's bylaw amendment recommendations approved by the Board at the Annual Meeting in May 2004.
• The committee co-chairs continue to finalize the IOG Legal Training agenda for directors and leadership. (scheduled for December 2004)
• The committee continues to work on the Director Certification/Training Program with implementation beginning in 2005.

 

Professional Capacity Committee membership has improved tremendously this year enabling the committee to successfully attain established goals. Through additional strengthening next year, the Committee anticipates the continuation of current efforts as well as the development of new initiatives.

 

Respectfully Submitted,

 

Sarah Bradshaw and Earl Marett