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DocuSign Envelope ID: FOFFD659- 4159- 4D4C- 82FD- FF8E51A5A7E4 <br />EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION <br />e) Other Pertinent Agency Information (Ex. Has the agency experienced any major changes <br />in the past year? is there a new Executive Director? Are there new initiatives ?) <br />The result of a nine -month planning process, the Compass Center Board of <br />Directors finalized a new three -year strategic plan for Compass Center in September <br />2016. The goals set forth in the plan center on increasing the overall number of <br />clients using our Career and Financial Services by growing our staffing and <br />volunteer capacity, and further integrating our Domestic Violence and Self - <br />Sufficiency Services by making Career and Financial Services more trauma - <br />informed. As part of this goal we planned to complete a program assessment project <br />that would include community stakeholder focus groups and involving content expert <br />consultants. This past year we partnered with Inspiring Capital and The Institute for <br />Consumer Money Management to assess our current Financial and Career <br />Services, provide research on best practices and focus group analysis, offer <br />recommendations for ways to make these services more in line with the needs of <br />low- and moderate - income clients, and to make recommendations on expanded pilot <br />services and volunteer trainings for our Financial and Career Services. We are now <br />poised to launch these pilot services in 2018, and are requesting additional funds <br />from Orange County, the Town of Chapel Hill and the Town of Carrboro to add a <br />Self - Sufficiency staff position necessary to ensure we have the staffing capacity to <br />begin implementation. This plan is meant to serve as the next step in Compass <br />Center's merger process begun in 2012, and to ensure that our work continues to <br />reflect the needs and interests of the community we serve. Expanding Career and <br />Financial Services will enable us to provide more career and financial workshops <br />and individual counselling sessions, increase the variety and frequency of topics <br />covered, offer more evening and weekend hours for sessions, expand our volunteer <br />training to significantly increase the number of Career and Financial volunteers, <br />forge new partnerships with other organizations with self - sufficiency expertise, offer <br />incentives to participating clients including free childcare and transportation support, <br />and would mean we could serve more Career and Financial clients overall. <br />f) Schedule of Positions (For Entire Agency) <br />• Full Time Equivalent (FTE) staff will be noted as 1.00; half time as .50; quarter time as .25, etc. <br />• Calculate a Full Time Equivalent for all recorded volunteer hours using the following: <br />Total Volunteer Hours = Volunteer FTE <br />2,080 <br /># of FTE - Full -Time Paid Positions: 11 <br /># of FTE - Paid Part -Time Positions: 2.48 <br /># of Volunteers: 243 # of FTE - Volunteers:Q <br />Total number of volunteer hours FY 16 -17 = 9,915 hrs. <br />g) Living Wage <br />Does this agency pay permanent employees a minimum living wagge? (Yes/ No) Yes <br />If yes, is this agency an Orange County Living Wage Certified Employer? Yes <br />Agency Information 1/22/2018 5:50:18 PM Page 1 1 of 47 <br />