Strategic Plan Overview

STRATEGIC PLAN OVERVIEW

Executive Summary

    For the last 6 weeks, this author has been developing a plan to address the many concerns within the department.   The lack of employee involvement, growing need for more money, not enough placements and having to travel too far to see children.  
      The department has a great many dissatisfied employees that are delivering service to state custody children.   This report will touch on low moral in the department and how the department will boost employee moral. The report discuss decreasing employee turnovers will increase employee loyalty to his or her job.
      With the growing amount of children coming into custody the report will address the growing need for more placements in Chicago for children in custody.   The paper will show what goals the department will do to obtaining a large enough building this help to slow down the amount of children having to be placed outside of Cook County.  
    In the department there is a growing concern of excessive traveling.   The report will show how the department should approach this less desirable part of the job.   The report will discuss what strategic goals the department will do to decrease traveling time.  

Background
    The Department of Children Services (DCS) provides very valuable services to many children within the State of Illionis.   The Department of Children's Services was created in Chicago legislature on .   For years in Chicgo, the Department of Children's Services (DCS) routinely housed children in emergency shelters and other temporary holding facilities for as long as six months because the state had nowhere else to put them.   Children in the system were also bounced through many inappropriate foster placements and, though the children stayed in state custody for extended periods, DCS made little effort to provide them with an education, return to their parents, or adoption. (Adoption 2007). The Department of Children's Services is... [continues]

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