The Office of Strategic Analysis provides regular analysis of data and strategic planning to ensure the Department’s success in achieving its goals. The Office consists of three units:
The StateStat unit is responsible for providing data for StateStat, contractual providers’ performance report, daily population reports, data reports for Governor’s Delivery Unit, and monthly workload reports. The unit ensures that DJS leadership and management staff will always have ready access to accurate critical performance data. The unit leads the analysis and reporting of key data indicators for the Department.
The Research and Evaluation unit supports all major planning, program development, policy, and budgeting decisions by providing the required data to DJS leadership and management staff. The unit also supports the Department’s data-based regional management projects that are patterned after the StateStat model. The unit provides data for the Department’s Gap Analysis, annual statistical reports, quarterly JDAI reports, Pending Placement reports and case reviews. In addition to managing and coordinating the production of data for these reports, the unit regularly responds to numerous ad-hoc requests from all offices within the Department as well as its external stakeholders and public agencies.
The Policy and Planning unit is responsible for developing departmental policy and strategies to accomplish the goals, objectives and performance of DJS. The unit oversees policy development initiatives and coordinates the enhanced development of Agency regulations and standards. The unit develops the Department’s Comprehensive Three Year Strategic Plan, its annual updates which are required by Maryland statute, and the Managing for Results (MFR) document which reports performance data for the annual departmental budget. The unit also provides support for ad-hoc planning documents, the Child and Family Services Interagency Joint Strategic Planning process and DJS-related task forces, committees and workgroups.
The office regularly reports data and analysis for StateStat, the Governor’s Delivery Unit, the monthly departmental indicators and workload reports, the monthly contractual providers’ performance report and the annual departmental Managing for Results document. The office also ensures that all major planning, program development, policy, and budgeting decisions are supported by providing the required data. The office regularly publishes the Department’s Strategic and Annual plans, and Task Force reports. The Office also will ensure that best practice models and strategies are incorporated into policy development and in the development and management of contracts and provider performance.
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