Year One: What We've Achieved 2015 | Page 4

We developed a five-year strategic plan and twelvemonth operational plans to keep DCS on mission and working towards making our vision a reality, and we established 114 measures encompassing every department and level of our agency to ensure we continue to perform at our best. HOLDING US ACCOUNTABLE. PLANNING TO SUCCEED. UNIFYING OUR OPERATIONS. INITIATING A NEW SUPERVISION MODEL. This past year in the field has been a time of great changes, and great strides forward. We’ve overlayed the former Parole Districts with Judicial Circuits, appointed DCS Coord inating Chiefs using a groundbreaking community-based hiring process, and changed the fundamental organization of caseloads so that our officers work in a geographic area—helping embed them in the communities they serve and improving their quality of life while on the job. Every officer now works on a unified, combined caseload, providing consistent services to parolees and probationers. MORE SERVICES AND RESOURCES. MORE ACCESSIBLE. This year we established a Community Counseling Services Unit, charged with building and coordinating resources with service providers. And as of July 1, 2016, we formally welcomed the Reentry Services Unit (formerly the Governor’s Office of Transition, Support and Reentry) into our organization. This will enable better coordination of reentry resources and help make them more readily accessible to those we serve. OPERATIONS DCS.GA.GOV