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Why ROMA?

Why is reporting on services provided by your agency not enough?

Cycle graphic created by B. Mooney and J. Jakopic from the Core Activities identified in
OCS Information Memo 49, 2001
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ROMA and
• This cycle can be followed our
to assess the needs of a Agencies
community and support
agency strategic planning to
meet those needs.
 Community Action Agencies help people change their lives for the
better, and helps communities become better places to live.
 CAAs are change agents -- not simply service providers -- and the
“change” we focus on is the “transition to self sufficiency” or
“movement out of poverty” or even “achieving stability”.

We must also be able to identify how our historic
interventions produce results.

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Situation:
 As of January 2016, the The team finished last in the prior season. To boost dwindling
ROMA & Community Action attendance, the team promotes that:
Organizational Standards became
Organizational part of the new Performance • Outfielders ran three times more laps during spring training.
Standards Management Framework Baseball
presented to the CSBG network • Pitchers threw twice as many pitches during spring training.
by the US Office of Community Case
Services. Study • Batters took four times as much hitting practice during spring
 Many of the Org Standards are training.
directed at the actions of the
CAA Board of Directors. • The team hired two new coaches and invested $100,000 in a
state-of-the-art communications system to enable the Manager
 Through the Org Standards, the to talk with them so they can give real-time perspectives on
ROMA principles are reinforced each play from their strategic vantage points in the stands
and they are expected to be during the games.
supported and promoted by the
Board. • By the All-Star break, the team is taking an average of 17 more
swings at pitches per game . . .
https://nascsp.org/wp‐content/uploads/2018/02/intro‐to‐roma‐for‐boards.pdf
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