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The Impact Of Relationship Impacts On Business Performance

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Engaging Shareholders Engaging shareholders directly impacts business performance. DDS engage shareholders by allowing them to participate in special events, meetings, and campaigns. Through these events, shareholders are informed of the various changes and new information about services within the agency and the agency’s forecast for the future. For example, the District conducts a comprehensive needs assessment of disability services every three years as required by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and as amended by the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. More than 400 people participated in the 2017 assessment through interviews, focus groups, and electronic surveys. Since its inception in the fiscal year 2012, the …show more content…

Mr. Reese stated in his email that since the agency was established, it has functioned far too often as two separate agencies, for instance, DDA and RSA. He stated that within these two administrations, there had been a tendency to function within silos, rather than the agency working together as a whole. Mr. Reese stated in his email that DDD had achieved a quality rating that surpasses the national average and improved case processing time by 14% since the fiscal year 2017. He mentioned that since DDA has exited the 2010 Revision of the 2001 Plan for Compliance and Conclusion of Evan v. Fenty, which was a long-standing class action that challenged the unconstitutional conditions of confinement and lack of community supports for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the District of Columbia. The lawsuit was filed in February of 1976 and ended on January 10, 2017, when the court held the District responsible for compliance through multiple court orders. The lawsuit included about two thousand people that resided at the Forest Haven institution which was closed in 1990. The institution was located in Laurel Maryland and closed because the District failed to comply with the court orders that required that the District provide adequate services to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of class members. With only 479 class members still alive when the judge ended the forty years of court oversight,

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