Direction Set by the Agency Strategic Plan

The leading section of a budget and finance plan must establish a strong link to the overall agency strategic plan and the path it sets for improved outcomes for children, youth and families to which resources are allocated and aligned. Critical guidance for the budget and finance plan includes the agency’s vision, mission and values, its core principles, including eliminating disparity and reducing disproportionality, its environmental challenges and opportunities, the needs of those being served and, especially, the front-line practices that are most likely to help them improve their lives. The budget and finance plan must identify any formally established strategic goals, objectives and initiatives, stakeholder mandates and non-negotiable expectations, projects already launched and other work commitments already made and established means to measure and monitor agency progress.



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