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DSFRC for 6 years, recently left to become Executive Director of her own agency. She gave DSFRC 6 weeks notice, and is available to help with training her replacement. Someone was hired to replace Ms. Gorman, but on the day she was to start, reneged and the position is still open. b. Result: Emile Awwad, Basic Needs Manager, is filling in temporarily and in part for much of the Client Services open position and will continue to do so with the help of May Cheng, Director of Health Services, and Dawn Valadez, Director of Development. Since Ms. Gorrnan's exit was planned and amicable, she took some time during her last weeks to update all her procedures so that her replacement would have a current map to the job. In addition, she worked closely with MSW interns so they could perform their jobs with minimal support during the transition. The Executive Director is taking advantage of this transition to redefine the position. The new position will be titled Basic Needs Program Social Worker. DSFRC is about to advertise the position and invite applications. 3) Jefferson & 1190 Childcare Centers: a. Situation: Jefferson was shut down 2 years ago because of evidence of fraud. It was reorganized and a new staff and director were brought in. The "new" director was transferred from another DSFRC childcare site and so was not new to the Center. 1190 was shut down two years ago and remained closed for 5 months while the facilities were remodeled. It was reopened in March 2007. The current site supervisor was hired at that time, has been with DSFRC for one year now, and most of her staff is very new. b. Result: The newly opened childcare centers seem to be operating smoothly. All four childcare centers were reorganized so that the functions that created opportunity for fraud are now performed by DSFRC Teagarden personnel, which removes any opportunity for a reoccurrence of fraud by the childcare sites themselves. There is some slight resentment by some site supervisors who were used to doing these functions themselves and so perceive this operational change as a loss in autonomy. Those feelings should recede over time and the new functional structure seems solid and to be working well, according to personnel in APP. It is worth noting that Sandra Jordan who has been the site supervisor at Garfield Childcare Center is retiring in June of this year. She has been training a member of her team, David Mason, to replace her. David has been with DSFRC for 5 years. David will hire a teacher to replace himself. This planned transition should be seamless. 4) Counseling.Department: a. Situation: The Counseling Department has undergone several reorganizations in order to better meet the requirements of its funding organizations, and to address poor financial performance and operational weaknesses. In this process, the Director of Health Services was replaced twice, once in September 2006 and again with the current Director in July 2007. There has been a significant (according to the current Director) amount of turnover in supervisors within this department due to reorganizations and cutting back Sustainability Study: Davis Street Family Resource Center- 4/08 Page 37 of 96