Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia (RPIC)
CAFCA serves as a lead organization under the Regional Performance and Innovation Consortia (RPIC), funded by the federal Office of Community Services (part of the Administration for Children and Families).
This cooperative agreement supports an ongoing state and regional strategy for collaboration, capacity-building, and exemplary practice in the Community Action Agency (CAA) network. There are 11 RPICs across the country. CAFCA has served as the lead organization for Region 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, and VT) since the first iteration of the RPIC program in 2011.
As the lead, CAFCA’s role is to serve as a regional focal point for T/TA and capacity building activities across New England.
2023 - 2026 RPIC Focus & Goals
The current three-year RPIC grant cycle focuses on assisting states with:
- Identifying and highlighting Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) opportunities grounded in capacity building and quality improvement.
- Improving outcomes and advancing equity for underserved individuals, families, and communities facing poverty, and historically marginalized population groups.
- Organizational standards and ROMA implementation
The RPIC will also work with the Office of Community Services (OCS) and National CSBG T/TA providers. Through these partnerships, the RPIC is working toward its overall goal: identifying, promoting, and supporting multiyear T/TA efforts that result in high-quality programs, services, and effective outcomes for the population groups to be served in Region I.
Major Goals
The RPIC assists State Associations, CAAs, and State agencies leading Community Services Block Grant efforts, or CSBG Lead Agencies, (in CT, this is the Department of Social Services) with four major goals:
- Improve service delivery models, strategies, and partnerships.
- Build and strengthen their knowledge, capacity, and ability to implement effective programs and activities.
- Address capacity building, quality improvement, and T/TA needs.
- Foster relationship-building, collaboration, and information-sharing efforts with CSBG State Lead Agencies.
- Build capacity to meet and exceed Organizational Standards through targeted T/TA.
- Develop powerful storytelling and messaging strategies to demonstrate CSBG impact.
- Integrate territories and directly-funded tribes and tribal organizations project activities.
Tools & Resources
- Region I Reports Newsletter
- Organizational Standards
- Results Oriented Management and Accountability (ROMA) Trainers & Implementers
For more information about RPIC or to be added to the Region I Reports newsletter list, contact Tanaysia Jefferson at Tanaysia@cafca.org.
