ROMA

Results Oriented Management and Accountability 

Results Oriented Management and Accountability (ROMA) is a performance-based initiative designed to preserve the anti-poverty focus of community action and to promote greater effectiveness among state and local agencies receiving Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds.

The Community Action Association of Pennsylvania (CAAP), in conjunction with The Center for Applied Management Practices, Inc., with funding from HHS OCS and Pennsylvania CSBG discretionary funding support, developed the Peer to Peer (PtP) ROMA "Train the Trainer" Project in 1998, for the Community Action Agencies (CAAs) in Pennsylvania.

CAAP demonstrated its ability to move this training model to a national application in 2000-2001. CAAP's successful, National Peer to Peer (NPtP) Project established a corps of certified trainers who conducted more than 200 training sessions for more than 4,000 CAA Network leaders and agency personnel.

The result of the trainings is an increased awareness across the county about the principles and basic implementation tools associated with ROMA. These trainers, bringing experience and skills from a broad range of backgrounds and CAA network involvement, have helped state CSBG offices, Community Action Associations, local CAAs and related entities with their transition to performance-based management.

For more information please follow the link to the ROMA website.