2018 Results for Health Conference

Anne is the Director of Performance Management for Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families (DCF), the state’s child welfare agency responsible for child protection, behavioral health, juvenile justice, and prevention services. Anne has worked in the human services field for over thirty years, including twenty-two years with the State of Connecticut, first at the Judicial Branch and most recently at DCF. Throughout her career, she has focused on systems change by developing and overseeing accountability practices for providers, programs, and service systems, and leading strategic planning and performance management work.

In her current position with DCF, Anne leads agency-wide implementation of Results Based Accountability for both internal and contracted-service performance management systems. She is a leader in Connecticut’s inter-department and inter-branch RBA projects, including the state’s statutorily mandated RBA report card on children’s health, safety, stability, and future success. As a certified RBA trainer, she regularly helps colleagues and private service providers learn to use RBA to improve their operations and outcomes. Given her years of hands-on experience, Anne is also a frequently requested speaker on how to implement RBA across large systems. She has made presentations about her RBA work in Connecticut at numerous local and regional conferences on data-driven decision-making, managing for results, and strengthening government accountability. She has been invited to present Connecticut’s RBA work to colleagues in other states.

Before entering state service, Anne worked in the non-profit sector for 10 years with homeless, indigent adults, high-risk and runaway youth, and adults and adolescents involved in the criminal and juvenile justice systems. She holds a BA degree in English and Experimental Psychology, a MS degree in Counseling and School Psychology, and is a former adjunct faculty member at Housatonic Community College.

Anne is the author of Stop Spinning Your Wheels, a book on the implementation of RBA for public or private agency leaders who are ready to focus on outcomes to ensure the people they serve are better off.

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