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Board Member Roles and Responsibilities Responsibilities and duties of WCIPF

Board of Directors include, but are not limited to:

1. Planning
   • Develop plans for services to those populations identified as appropriate for interagency services; be responsible for developing a comprehensive interagency plan for the delivery of services to families and children.
• Develop specific outcome measures that include reductions in numbers of children entering out-of-home and out-of-state placements; increase number of children who are effectively supported and maintained in their homes.
  
  
2. Data Collection
   • Assure development of an integrated data collection system; conduct independent, ongoing analysis to determine the effectiveness of the data collection model.
   • Develop, in conjunction with the State of Maryland, the capacity to monitor service delivery, track outcomes, maximize federal funding opportunities and assure fiscal accountability.
     
     
3. Fiscal
   • Monitor the expenditure of all WCIPF funding.
   • Monitor provider services to assure that program funds are being expended in keeping with the priorities in the WCIPF Five-Year Subdivision Strategic Plan.
   • Allocate earned reinvestment/incentive monies to community-based services in accordance with Subcabinet guidelines.
   • Assure that federal and other funding opportunities are maximized in all family and children services in the jurisdiction.
     
     
4. Evaluation
   • Evaluate the progress of WCIPF efforts to assure target populations are being served and whether the planned service is being provided.
     
5. Monitoring
   • Establish procedures to track progress in achieving the outcomes noted in the WCIPF Five-Year Subdivision Strategic Plan.
     
6. Reporting
   • Prepare and review annually the Memorandum of Understanding between Worcester County’s Initiative to Preserve Families, the Worcester County Commissioners, and the State of Maryland.
     
7. Service Design
   • Develop specific models of service delivery within the parameters established by the State.
   • Develop community plans for reaching the goal of providing non-categorical intensive family preservation services to all families with a child at imminent risk of placement, and reduce the number of children in out-of-state placements.
   • Develop, implement, and evaluate plans for community-based, high risk, primary prevention, and early intervention services.

Appointment to the WCIPF Board of Directors shall be by the Worcester County Commissioners.