Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 196 - Human Services Department
Chapter 9571 - COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS
Part 9571.0120 - LOCAL PLANNING PROCESS
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Each grantee must develop and maintain a written plan for submission to the department as part of its grant application. The plan must include a description of how the local planning process will be implemented, how the grantees will publicize major planning activities to encourage community participation, and how the grantee will involve low-income persons in the planning process. Each work plan submitted as part of a grant application under part 9571.0150, subpart 1, must be consistent with, and complementary to, this local planning process. The local planning process of a grantee includes the following activities:
A. develop a mission statement which defines the overall grantee's purposes and which represents the views and opinions of the grantee's board of directors or tribal council, low-income groups, and representatives of the community;
B. identify and analyze community needs in order to respond to the poverty in the community and its causes;
C. assess available resources from both the public and private sectors which are available to solve the causes of poverty;
D. establish priorities and set goals for the program year;
E. develop strategies, to implement the specified goals;
F. identify programs to achieve the specified goals;
G. select the program or combination of programs to be undertaken during a program year; and
H. analyze evaluation and monitor information to influence the structure of future programming.
Statutory Authority: MS s 256.01; 268.0122; 268.021
