FY2023 Adopted Operating and Capital Budget

FY2023 Adopted Budget Organizational Budgets

Citizens Services Division

Departmental Strategic Goals

Empower Families to be Safe, Stable, and Healthy

County Strategic Goal Alignment: Community Needs OCF contracts with non-profit providers to fund child, youth and family focused programs that provide services to improve education and self-sufficiency, reduce instances of child maltreatment and trauma, address homelessness and child poverty, and reduce out of home placements. Measures are based on effectiveness of the vendor program.

FY 2020 FY 2021 FY 2022 FY 2023 100% 100% 100% 100%

Target Actual

Percentage of health & wellness programs funded by OCF meeting or exceeding overall performance measures Local Care Team families participating in community based after care services in lieu of out of home placements Percentage of Youth programs funded by OCF meeting or exceeding their overall performance measures Percentage of Family programs funded by OCF meeting or exceeding their overall performance measures

33% 100% 100%

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Target Actual

100% 100% 100% 100%

100% 50% 100%

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100% 100% 100% 100%

Target Actual Target Actual

50% 75% 100%

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90% 90% 90% 90%

94% 84% 81%

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Child Advocacy Center Mission Statement

Promote child well-being by providing a child -focused approach to address reports of child maltreatment. We seek to prevent and reduce trauma to children and families by using multi-disciplinary collaboration throughout the investigation, prosecution, treatment, education and advocacy processes.

Every child is filled with extraordinary potential, and we have a collective responsibility to prevent maltreatment and other forms of childhood adversity from diminishing their ability to learn, grow, and contribute to our community. The Child Advocacy Center is fully accredited by t KH 1DWLRQDO &KLOGUHQ¶V $OOLDQFH DQG provides a safe, child and family friendly facility designed, staffed, and equipped to provide comprehensive and coordinated trauma based services to child abuse victims and their families. The CAC works with local, state, and national law enforcement agencies, the )UHGHULFN &RXQW\ 'HSDUWPHQW RI 6RFLDO 6HUYLFHV WKH 6WDWH¶V $WWRUQH\¶V 2IILFH Frederick Health Hospital, Frederick County Public Schools, community service providers and citizens to help children and families heal past traumas, prevent future trauma from occurring, and assist in promoting life-long well-being of the

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