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| ASAP 2008 Strategic Focus Areas |
In 2008, ASAP selected four Strategic Focus Areas to address through specific goals and action steps. An Executive Action Briefing was produced for each Strategic Focus Area and served as a work plan and measure of outcomes for each priority. These Briefings helped to guide ASAP, its sub-commitees and member agencies in focusing their efforts efficiently and more effectively on selected priorities. The Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Strategic Focus Area was tied to Executive Order 2008-01: Enhanced Availability of Substance Abuse Services for Families Involved with Child Protective Services (CPS), and enhanced cooperation among state agencies to achieve the requirements of the Executive Order, culminating in the Progress Report detailing the actions taken by each state agency to prioritize substance abuse services for CPS involved families. This prioritization has marked a systematic change in planning and policy in the state, and continues to impact the work of ASAP as an overarching paradigm. For 2009, ASAP took this one step further by adopting Drug Endangered Children as a Strategic Focus Area. Data Driven Decisions and Policy Development and Emerging Trends and the State’s Capacity to Respond are Strategic Focus Areas based around systemic change in thinking which overlays the work of ASAP and its member agencies. The Substance Abuse Epidemiology Work Group has adopted the Data Driven Decisions Focus Area as its work plan and continues to enhance and expand the goals and steps. Likewise, the Emerging Issues Sub-Committee continues to address Emerging Trends and the State’s Capacity Respond through their scope of work. |
Child Welfare and Substance Abuse Data-Driven Decisions and Policy Development Law Enforcement and Drug Trafficking |
