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Five Steps for Making Your Strategic Plan a Reality
SESSION INFO
Monday, January 27, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Leadership and staff are full of excitement and momentum as new strategic plans are developed. Unfortunately, the anticipated results are often not achieved because little attention is given to what comes after the strategic planning process ends. Time, competing priorities, unanticipated barriers, and a lack of leadership and resources often impede the plan’s progress, leading to its failure. This workshop will focus on what needs to occur after completing the plan to increase successful implementation. The trainers will guide participants through five steps, utilizing personal experiences, to make a strategic plan a reality.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Chris Modica
Division Manager, Ventura County Probation
Chris began working for the Ventura County Probation Agency in 2000. He has held a variety of assignments including juvenile and adult armed field supervision, investigations, training, and served as a juvenile court officer. He is currently the Manager overseeing the Juvenile Field Division, which consists of four field units and the Title IV-E program. He also manages nearly two dozen collaborative contracts with county partners and stakeholders. Chris is known to be creative and innovative with programs he brings to the division and is always looking for ways to improve outcomes and increase services to the community.
Rick Parsons
Deputy Director, Carey Group
Richmond "Rick" Parsons joined Carey Group in 2022 as deputy director after 30+ years of probation and parole experience in two Pennsylvania counties. In addition to his leadership roles at the county level, he served on the Governor’s Advisory Board of Probation, the executive board of the County Chief Adult Probation and Parole Officers Association of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Evidence-Based Practices Implementation Team. He is a founder and past president of the Mid-Atlantic Region Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He specializes in identifying organizational roadblocks and facilitating needed organizational changes. Rick’s career began in the Adult Probation and Parole Department of Montgomery County near Philadelphia. As an officer, he developed expertise in supervising sexual offenders and treatment courts operations. He co-founded a consulting firm to offer training primarily focusing on the management and treatment of individuals who sexually offend and retired as deputy chief in 2015. In 2016, Carbon County, PA hired Rick as the chief of Adult Probation and Parole. He facilitated rapid organizational modernization to upgrade departmental supervision practices through continuous training and technological innovation. He started and coordinated the county's Veterans and Drug Treatment Courts. During his tenure, the department nearly doubled in size due to strategic identification of grant funding opportunities. His experience provided notable improvements to the county’s criminal justice processes as well as to the prison and supervised populations. Rick was honored for his efforts throughout his career including the Matty Muir Award from the Victim Services Center of Montgomery County for his work with victims; the Montgomery County Office of the District Attorney Unit Commendation for the accomplishments of the sex offender unit that he supervised, and the Award for Exceptional Services to Benefit Children and Youth for his work with adolescents. Rick holds a bachelor of arts in interdisciplinary studies in criminal justice from American University and a master’s of science in administration from West Chester University.
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