Hall, Safe Homes of Augusta Dilma Amado, Atlanta Victim Assistance Joan Prittie, ProjectSafe 11:35-12:15 Review progress on goals and objectives Provide feedback on VSSR Ensure alignment with FVPSA/State/PHBG/Community Grant reporting requirements DV database transition Tabled at September meeting: discussion of ALICE reports that potentially double-count services for new and existing victims. Please contact Betty if you’ve experiencing double counting of new and existing victims when pulling a report from ALICE Agencies report that they feel that the VSSR updates have improved reporting and made the process more fluid and user friendly Agencies for a seamless transition to Apricot while doing VSSR reports because it is a massive transition/migration of data. Would like to see continued customizable reports in Apricot as currently in ALICE to ensure that staff and admin can create required reports as necessary from various funders Strongly suggest not moving to standardized victim service activities in the Apricot system because it is relatively convenient and useful for agencies to have their own creative freedom to name activities internally whatever name that fits their individual agency’s needs changes to report and deadlines Committee suggested to reduce the number of reports submitted to annual reporting for reporting efficiency to align with federal funder reporting deadline Committee also suggested reducing reporting requirement for VSSR as well to semiannually instead of quarterly Dee explained that some improvements to the CJSSR is that a great deal of the repetitive sections have been removed to make the report more user friendly Some suggestions were to review CJSSR questions to ensure they are clear for each service type in the future Assess utility of OPMs TTA efforts Collect goals on applications and compare to OPMs during compliance monitoring SAC and assessment survey - Launch planning this fall/winter and complete report to use for 2017-2019 Plan. o The consensus of the is that they are no longer useful to inform practices for improvement in service delivery however agency’s review them occasionally
Hall, Safe Homes of Augusta Dilma Amado, Atlanta Victim Assistance Joan Prittie, ProjectSafe 11:35-12:15 Review progress on goals and objectives Provide feedback on VSSR Ensure alignment with FVPSA/State/PHBG/Community Grant reporting requirements DV database transition Tabled at September meeting: discussion of ALICE reports that potentially double-count services for new and existing victims. Please contact Betty if you’ve experiencing double counting of new and existing victims when pulling a report from ALICE Agencies report that they feel that the VSSR updates have improved reporting and made the process more fluid and user friendly Agencies for a seamless transition to Apricot while doing VSSR reports because it is a massive transition/migration of data. Would like to see continued customizable reports in Apricot as currently in ALICE to ensure that staff and admin can create required reports as necessary from various funders Strongly suggest not moving to standardized victim service activities in the Apricot system because it is relatively convenient and useful for agencies to have their own creative freedom to name activities internally whatever name that fits their individual agency’s needs changes to report and deadlines Committee suggested to reduce the number of reports submitted to annual reporting for reporting efficiency to align with federal funder reporting deadline Committee also suggested reducing reporting requirement for VSSR as well to semiannually instead of quarterly Dee explained that some improvements to the CJSSR is that a great deal of the repetitive sections have been removed to make the report more user friendly Some suggestions were to review CJSSR questions to ensure they are clear for each service type in the future Assess utility of OPMs TTA efforts Collect goals on applications and compare to OPMs during compliance monitoring SAC and assessment survey - Launch planning this fall/winter and complete report to use for 2017-2019 Plan. o The consensus of the is that they are no longer useful to inform practices for improvement in service delivery however agency’s review them occasionally
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