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$m*mmB3!Bmmmmmmmm wwrn^w^ww mi wwrtn\***\''www i P l >S»W^^^W»\W*W*F\ Silent sobbot koJ DomlnlcQfi father Matthew Fox has agf^d to tote a saooaticai as a com- j^rorTHSe to th^ VotkOfl's request to m- mtnate his activities on behalf of creatrarvcenteffea' spirituality: Page 3. Soccer sectlonob i% I •fx I FAMILIES AT RISK - Evidence of a hurleddeparture Uttered thifcaouthws.t Rochester apartment, which the Department.of Social Services ordered a mother and her three chldren to leave because off the dweetag's substandard conditions. Many tow-income famOes are forced to choosebetween poor ^housing and becoming homeless. For more on housing homeless ffamiies. see page?!!. Combined board to three social ministry agencies asV#8rV~ By Rob Cullivan The Genesee Valley Office of Social Minis- try announced Wednesday, Oct. 19, that it will merge with the Catholic Youth Organization and Catholic Family Center under a regional board that will consolidate planning and ad- ministration of the three programs. The reorganization concludes a process be- gun in late April of this year by a committee chaired by Richard Dollinger.The new organi- zation will initially adopt Catholic Family Cen- ter as its name, but GVOSM board President Kathleen Machi said that the new regional board might change the name in the next six to 12 months. The entire reorganization process may take up to two years, Machi said. The new CFC will be officially inaugurated when the three or- ganizations sign an operating agreement on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Pastoral Center in Gates. Machi will be named president pro tern at that time, and will guide the regional board until an executive director is found. The first board meeting is planned for Wednesday, Nov. 9, Machi jsaid. , - ---eurrSTOy/ir Search committee consisting of Father John A. Firpo, director of the dioce- san o¥0ce-pf-soela1irninistry, -and\ the current _presidents of the three compoinent agencies is screening applications for the new regional board's executive director. The search commit- tee must unanimously agree on three candi- dates, from whom the regional board will select the new director., \We havefsceived an overwhelming num- ber, of applications from around the country;' Father Firpo remarked. The prospective direc- tor's salary would be between $50,000 and $60,000, Father Firpo said. The board will probably have chosen a director by February 1 of 1989, according to Machi. The new director wilf preside over a struc- tural shake-up that ; includes the following changes: / '••/-. • Consolidation of the three programs' boards into one board. Active members of the three separate boards will be automatically ac- cepted ontp,the-CFG board if they choose to join. TJusooard wulhave: the power to approve nominations foisits membership and will be ableto hire and fire the executive director. Efficiency key to reorganization of personnel division By Lee Strong In a realignment of the diocesan Division of Personnel, Staffing and Development, the director of priest personnel will no longer head the division. In addition, for the first time in diocesan history, the director of personnel will in all likelihood not be a-priest. This change is the first step in what dioce- san officials describe as a long?lerm process of restructuring intended to improve efficien- cy and increase professionalism in\ personnel services for the Diocese of Rochester. Separat- ing the roles of division director and director of priest personnel also recognizes that priests now constitute just one component of a much bioaderpeisbn^picnuethatin^ tag numbers oi^lay employees. The diocese bis already begun a search for I*- II-. Schrader, whqhasheidthepositionsof divi- sion director aMdi^ of priest personnel sin^^^uary,|^.;After the new director is hjr^^ posjnbryas esuly as November — Fa- \ *'\\\\ wiU remain as director of priest % ; Olra=lj^ne^l|u3ec|6r,is on board, the divi- sjotfi^^^ejrgO s^tionai modifications in stnicture andpersonneloperations. Among changes being discussed are: \regrading\ the salary ranges of Pastoral Center positions; res- tructuring the Personnel Commission;, and consolidating or better coordinating person- nel operations conducted by other divisions. The changes areguided, in part, by recom- mendations contained in a report of the Na- tional Association, of Church Personnel Administrators (NACPA), which in December, 1987/audited diocesan personnel operations and surveyed diocesan employees. These recommendations were presented to the dio- cese in March, 1988. After receivi^the report. Bishop Matthew H. Clark appointed an im- plementation committee to study the docu- ment. The committee has since made suggestions to the Persoimef Commission about which of NACPA's iecommendatipiis to implement. ' The diocest u y dded to commission the au- dit, Father Schrader said, because the current structure of the personnel division had been in place for several, years, and \we thought it would be a good time to look at it. Also we were seeing some duplication of services in some areas. We wanted to look at the most ef- ficient-way to administer the human resources of the, tjiocese.\ \I thtakthereVa growing awareness that the area, of personnel in the pastoral office and throughout the diocese is an area where we need increasing sensitivity!' said Father John Mulligan, moderator of the pastoral office. \Many of the Church's social teachings talk about fair treatment of employees. We can't be about telling other people to be fair unless we are looking at ourselves, too\ The implementation committee that studied the audit report was comprised of individuals who had helped with the audit. Committee members were: Father Schrader; Mary Kess- ler^airector of the department of personnel senfies; MarthaAndukiutis,; former person- ndcooidinator in Kessler-s office; Sister There- s^u^RSM, principal of St. James School al^SiniBmber of the Joint Executive Commit- tee; 'Gerald Madden, manager of employee benefits at Xerox Corporation; and Father Faiil^omasso, secretary to Bishop Matthew H. Tile committee considered not. only the NACPA audit report, hut also recommenda- . tions made by the Five Year Financial J*lan- nihg ^k I&fc^^ ' and ServicesIRepoifcrtlealiBd inTSeptember, • CoadaeedoaP««e7 program • Creation of eight departments to_«ncom- pass the programs of the thiw organizations. The new departments are: Catholic You& Or- ganization; Elderly Seraces;;Pajentaland:Chil- dren; Personal and Family;, Development; Justice andPeace; \ Migration; the substance-abuse Restart; and Disabilities. Each department will have an advisorycom- mittee whose chair will be a voting member of the regional board. Current board members in each of the three organizations anay^pit.to serve on these committees rather^hanclioos- ing to serve on the regional board, Niacin said. Other reorganizational changes include: * A streamlining of financial, rjerspiihel and employee benefit policies. Standardization of health benefits, pension plans and job descrip- tions are among the areas that the regional board will discuss, Machi said. \•Coordination of human services with those offered by the Justice and Peace ministry. The Dollinger committee's August report on recom- mendations for reorganization noted that the future of Justice and Peace ministry warrant- ed considerable debate: The Dollinger commit- tee discussed creating a separate board for Justiceand Peace, but«ven&ially thecommit- iee decided, to recommend that it become a department. Machi commented that consolidating the human services ministries with justice and peace advocacy is one of the most important aspects of the reorganization. She illustrated the new relationship that sTieJiopes will form between human service and J/P advocates by using an example of a'situation workers in the new disabilities department might face. Such workers may Jcnow that their clients have such special transportation needs as lifts on buses, but due to time constraints, are un r able to advocate with transportation compa- nies on behalf of the disabled. Prior to the reorganization, these workers might have not considered advocacy efforts, but under the new structure, the J/P staff will be able to advo- cate for the disabled persons. Maurice J. Tierney, associate director of so- cial ministries, said improved communications between departments under the new agreement Confined oe Psge 7 Around the Diocese... 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