Midwest Academy Strategy Chart

Goals Organizational Constituents, Allies Targets Tactics

Considerations and Foes

1. Long-term Objectives 1. Resources 1. Constituents 1. Primary Targets: Examples:

1. Reducing recidivism
through facilitating ex-
offenders to acquire
employments and hence
manage child support.
2. Ensure that ex-offenders
integrate with the society
meaningfully.
3. Emphasize the
importance of parental
responsibility despite the
prevailing situation
2. Incremental Goals
1. Eliminate barriers to
employment of ex-offenders
2. Transfer child support
funds from the employers to
the families.
3. Reunite families that
would have otherwise been
forever broken by the failure
of ex-offenders to meet
parental responsibilities.
4. Re-install the ex-
offenders head role in their
families by granting them
income/employment.
3. Short-term Goals or
Partial Victories
Key people include:
- 30 Social workers - The State government
- 10 Case workers will be concerned since
- 40 Psychologists this problem entails a
- 60 Therapists significant social issue.
- A coordinator - The department of
- Child Support Enforcement employees corrections as they seek to
(care coordinators and children’s service reduce recidivism.
workers)
2. Allies
Also, access to Child Support
Enforcement Office means that the - Child Support
available data on child support is readily Enforcement Office.
available. - Ex-offenders with child
support.
Also, the campaign will have some - Families of ex-
reputation, especially to potential offenders.
employers, due to the attachment to the - Potential employers
Child Support Enforcement Office. - Personnel of the
campaign.
- Law enforcement
2. Ways you want to Build your officers.
Organization - State department of
social services.
1. The number of employees will be - Community
increased by 25 percent once more than - Family in need of child
10,000 ex-offenders with child support support
are enrolled.
2. The employed ex-offenders will be 3. Opponents
tasked with skill development and post
training through furthering their - Some ex-offenders
education to ensure growth in their - Private correctional
careers. facilities.
- Some employers
- Potential employers - Potential employers can
- Child Support cooperate and accept to
administrators hire ex-offenders without
demanding other
requirements such as
experience and education
that the ex-offenders might
not have.
- Child support
2. Secondary Targets: administrators may create
help find and increase the
- Ex-offenders enrolment of ex-offenders
- Correctional facilities with child support by
officers contacting and finding the
- Care coordinators reported child support
- Child services workers violators.
- Social workers - Correctional facility
- Psychologists officers may support the
- Therapists campaign by reporting all
- Families the offenders that have
- Policy makers been released or soon to be
released with child support
issues. This will allow the
program to prepare for the
new bunch of ex-offenders.
- Families may offer
emotional support by
understanding the state and
conditions facing ex-
offenders and encourage
them to join the program.
- Social workers,
therapists, psychologists,
child service workers, and

1. Convince potential
employers in Prince
George’s County to accept
ex-offenders.
2. Reach out and enroll as
much ex-offenders with
child support in Prince
George’s County as
possible.
3. Develop a system through
which child support will be
paid directly to the families
from the employers.
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3. The campaign will target to reach more care coordinators can
than 99 percent of ex-offenders with child collaboratively work
support in Prince George’s County. together to generate reports
4. In future, the campaign will expand to on each ex-offender that
counties neighboring Prince George’s might entice potential
County such as Montgomery, Howard, employers to hire them.
Anne Arundel, Calvert, and Charles - Policy makers might
counties and then to the rest of the state. support the program by
3. Internal Problems creating laws that
challenge potential
1. Reluctant by the employers to accept employers to accept ex-
ex-offenders. offenders or not to
2. Challenges in the coordination of the discriminate any potential
significant employee body as well as the employee based on their
huge number of ex-offenders. past conduct.
3. Mistrust and lack of trust from the ex-
offenders.