For example, does your most recent grant request tell what you're going to do? Did you set goals? Sure you did. You have grant goals, right. Where are you tracking your progress on the grant goals? If you're not? Why not? Because that's an area where you said you were going to do something. Then you ought to be able to show that you did what you said you would do. Sometimes we forget these very basic pieces. We get so into the data collection of those specific individual records that we forget that, hey, we've made other promises about what we're going to accomplish. So how can we look at those promises and see whether or not we met them? So your goals would be one of those. If you have a strategic plan and if you look at the requirements in the regulations, you'll see that you are supposed to have a strategic plan. If you have a strategic plan, does it reflect goals? Do those include building a transition program? Building a diversion program? Or certain results from those programs? Those should be things you're looking at and thinking about. Holistically what is my center doing? It's not only the individual record. It's also the big scope things. If you can't see both at the same time, you've only got part of the picture. So you want to make sure you're doing that.
For example, does your most recent grant request tell what you're going to do? Did you set goals? Sure you did. You have grant goals, right. Where are you tracking your progress on the grant goals? If you're not? Why not? Because that's an area where you said you were going to do something. Then you ought to be able to show that you did what you said you would do. Sometimes we forget these very basic pieces. We get so into the data collection of those specific individual records that we forget that, hey, we've made other promises about what we're going to accomplish. So how can we look at those promises and see whether or not we met them? So your goals would be one of those. If you have a strategic plan and if you look at the requirements in the regulations, you'll see that you are supposed to have a strategic plan. If you have a strategic plan, does it reflect goals? Do those include building a transition program? Building a diversion program? Or certain results from those programs? Those should be things you're looking at and thinking about. Holistically what is my center doing? It's not only the individual record. It's also the big scope things. If you can't see both at the same time, you've only got part of the picture. So you want to make sure you're doing that.
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