This project will facilitate five demonstration projects implementing incremental measurement systems for individual, family, and community change as a result of local agency programming. Three sites are Head Start agencies. All sites operate a wide variety of programs, and although they are successful in developing resources for serving significant numbers of low-income people in their communities, they all report a lack of public recognition for their role. The second stage of the project will assist the agencies to complete the transition to ROMA by examining needs for management redefinition and reorganization, providing information and guidance on agency reorganization or reinvention, assisting sub- contract agencies to develop performance based contracts, and focus all agencies on defining results for community outcomes. Some agencies do, but not all.
Agencies provide data and the state calculations one statewide report.