Charles County Government

Local Management Board

The Local Management Board plans, manages, and evaluates services to families and children.

The Local Management Board is responsible for developing a comprehensive array of human services for all of Charles County’s children, youth, and families as well as monitoring and evaluating contracts for services, outcomes and results provided by the county and private human services.

Except for advocacy and information and referral services, the Local Management Board does not provide human services directly, but contracts with public and private agencies to provide a variety of services for which the Local Management Board has received funding. As well, it provides technical assistance to interested human service agencies to help them incorporate best practices in their ongoing work and to evaluate the results achieved.

The Local Management Board is funded through local, state and federal sources. The main funding agencies are the Governor’s Office for Children, the Maryland State Department of Education, the Department of Juvenile Services and the Department of Human Resources.

The Local Management Board’s mission is to improve the quality of life for Charles County children, youth, and families by ensuring that human service programs are plentiful, accessible, and excellent. Working with citizens, government, public and private human service agencies, the Local Management Board strives to make Charles County a place where:

Babies are born healthy
Children are physically and mentally healthy
Children are ready for school
Children succeed in school
Children complete school
Families are stable and economically independent
Citizens are safe in their families and communities
Communities support family life

To these ends, the Local Management Board:

identifies the community’s needs and strengths;
promotes the use of documented best practices by local human service providers;
maximizes existing resources through collaboration and systems reform;
designs new programs aimed at filling gaps in service;
acquires funding to implement those programs; and
monitors and evaluates programs to ensure that they achieve results.

Along the way, the LMB facilitates collaborative problem-solving, engages in community-wide strategic planning, and offers technical assistance to agencies in the areas of clinical services, grant writing, program development and evaluation.

Underlying these activities is a commitment to family-focused services that prioritize prevention and early intervention. We are equally dedicated to continuous quality assessment. Only through rigorous program evaluation can we learn how to tailor our services to meet the unique needs of Charles County citizens.

The LMB Board is comprised of 16 community members. Of these sixteen, nine shall be public sector members representing each of the following:

the Department of Social Services,
the Department of Juvenile Services,
the Board of Education,
the Health Department,
the Sheriff’s Office,
the Charles County Government,
the Charles County Developmental Disabilities Administration
A Representative of the local court system (circuit or district), and
Local public mental health advisory or advocacy,

In addition, two citizens/consumers representing children, youth, and families serve on the board, as do two consumers/citizens representing mental health. Two people representing human service agencies serve as well. One seat on the Board is reserved for a citizen at large.

The Office of the Local Management Board consisting of a staff of six carries out the Local Management Board’s mission on a day-to-day basis. It includes a manager, an administrative assistant, four staff dedicated to program development and monitoring, fiscal, and evaluation services.

Programs Funded through the Charles County Local Management Board

After School Youth Development
Community Services Initiative
Family Connection Center (Single point of Access)
Family Navigator
Functional Family Therapy (Clinic referred youth)
Functional Family Therapy (Dept. of Juvenile Services youth)
Healthy Families Charles County
Healthy Start
Interagency Family Preservation Services
Local Coordinating Council
Summer Youth Achievement Program
Youth Services Bureau

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Local Management Board

To these ends, the Local Management Board: