Self-awareness provides insight and purposeful applications of agency goals and child welfare’s intention to help families in crisis. Most importantly, is the congruency that exists when personal leadership style is echoed within an organizational structure. This creates a mutually supportive and beneficial relationship ultimately providing adequate services, as evidenced in the dynamic between a child welfare leader and agency of practice, Children’s Home Society.
Organizational Background Early in the inception of Children’s Home Society there was an embodiment of transformational leadership in addressing a countrywide issue of abandoned children. In 1902, Children’s Home Society of Florida opened with the intention of creatively aiding …show more content…
Transformational leadership is an approach that capitalizes on the motivational and moral process that occurs between leaders and followers (Northouse, 2016). The leadership team within Seminole County is inclusive of the Quality Management Manager, Dependency Program Manager, Dependency Program Director, Director of Program Operations, and Executive Director from the corporate office. The leadership team sets the standard for the exchanges with the seven Supervisors that manage the frontline staff of forty Case Managers. Throughout the organizational structure there is an entrenched dissemination of transformational …show more content…
They have sought to reform and implement an approach to meeting performance measures that is linked to ethical propelled and implement a dependency program philosophy that uses empowering clinical and casework practice. Transformational leadership is not only a way to lead, but a way to practice.
As part of the contractual agreement between the lead agency, Community Based Care of Central Florida, and Children’s Home Society of Florida there are performance measures that must be met in order to receive financial holder back, which are incentive monies separate and apart from the operational budget. Contract performance measures in Seminole County include the following: seeing 99.5% of children in the home every 30 days; making face to face contact with at least 55% of parents of children with the goal of reunification; obtaining and maintaining at least 91% of up to date medical, dental, and immunizations; seeing 95% of children under the age of six weekly for the first three months and bi-weekly the subsequent three months; and an overall 90% timely submission of Judicial
Organizational Background Early in the inception of Children’s Home Society there was an embodiment of transformational leadership in addressing a countrywide issue of abandoned children. In 1902, Children’s Home Society of Florida opened with the intention of creatively aiding …show more content…
Transformational leadership is an approach that capitalizes on the motivational and moral process that occurs between leaders and followers (Northouse, 2016). The leadership team within Seminole County is inclusive of the Quality Management Manager, Dependency Program Manager, Dependency Program Director, Director of Program Operations, and Executive Director from the corporate office. The leadership team sets the standard for the exchanges with the seven Supervisors that manage the frontline staff of forty Case Managers. Throughout the organizational structure there is an entrenched dissemination of transformational …show more content…
They have sought to reform and implement an approach to meeting performance measures that is linked to ethical propelled and implement a dependency program philosophy that uses empowering clinical and casework practice. Transformational leadership is not only a way to lead, but a way to practice.
As part of the contractual agreement between the lead agency, Community Based Care of Central Florida, and Children’s Home Society of Florida there are performance measures that must be met in order to receive financial holder back, which are incentive monies separate and apart from the operational budget. Contract performance measures in Seminole County include the following: seeing 99.5% of children in the home every 30 days; making face to face contact with at least 55% of parents of children with the goal of reunification; obtaining and maintaining at least 91% of up to date medical, dental, and immunizations; seeing 95% of children under the age of six weekly for the first three months and bi-weekly the subsequent three months; and an overall 90% timely submission of Judicial