Vanessa Hicks-Edwards

This document is the Fiscal Year 2025 Performance Accountability Report for the Department of Human Services. It assesses the agency's performance relative to its annual Performance Plan, detailing accomplishments, objectives, activities, and projects for the fiscal year. Key objectives include providing high-quality services, implementing economic mobility initiatives, making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring, fostering an anti-racist and high-performing organization, delivering reliable and trauma-informed service, and maintaining an efficient, transparent, and responsive government.

The Department of Health Care Finance's Fiscal Year 2025 Performance Accountability Report details the agency's progress in achieving its mission to improve health outcomes for District of Columbia residents. The report focuses on key objectives including providing comprehensive and high-quality healthcare services, deterring fraud, waste, and abuse, and maintaining an efficient, transparent, and responsive government. Accomplishments highlight initiatives such as the successful update to Medicaid dental reimbursement rates, aiming to enhance access and provider sustainability.

The strategic plan, titled HomewardDC, focuses on making homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in Washington, DC. Key areas of focus include closing DC General and replacing it with smaller community-based emergency housing, ensuring shelter availability for families in need, decreasing the time families experience homelessness by connecting them quickly with housing and supports, providing safety to families whose eligibility for shelter cannot be quickly determined, and clarifying the role of emergency housing. The plan encourages community involvement and support for proven strategies to end homelessness.

The meeting was convened to discuss election preparedness, focusing on the period between election day and the inauguration. Key discussion points included ensuring that DC residents know how, where, and when to vote, countering misinformation, and coordinating with federal partners for a peaceful transfer of power. The city is preparing for potential scenarios, including a lack of declared winner on election night, and is emphasizing the importance of validated sources of information.

The 2019-2022 District of Columbia State Plan on Aging focuses on improving the lives of older adults (60+), adults with disabilities (18+), and their caregivers. Four main goals guide the plan: strengthening programs and service coordination; improving access to services and customer service; promoting well-being; and empowering the workforce. Key areas of focus include caregiver support, falls prevention, combating social isolation (particularly for LGBTQ+ seniors), transportation options, elder abuse prevention, addressing Alzheimer's disease, affordable housing, nutrition access, and integrated health and long-term care services. The plan emphasizes community engagement, data-driven decision-making, and collaboration with various District agencies and community partners to achieve its objectives.