Leadership Roundtables (LRT)

 

 

Pennsylvania uses a Roundtable model to guide dependency practices and to maintain collaboration between the courts, the Department of Public Welfare, and other relevant parties. The Roundtable structure currently in operation consists of three levels: Local Children’s, Leadership, and State. The Leadership Roundtable is the intermediate level of this statewide system and plays an important role with respect to the information displayed on the dependency dashboards.

 

The Leadership Roundtable is actually a collection of seven smaller roundtables. Each of Pennsylvania’s 67 Counties have been divided into these seven groups based roughly on their population size. Each LRT is numbered from 1 to 8 with the largest counties grouped into LRT 1 and the smallest in LRT 8. The purpose of these roundtables is to bring together the counties who are most likely to have similar experiences so they can raise areas of interest or concerns and provide each other support, problem solving techniques, and best practice methods. The Leadership Roundtables meet twice a year, in spring and fall, and are co-chaired by a dependency court judge from one judicial district and a children and youth administrator from another.

 

From a dashboard perspective, it is important to take into account the counties that make up each LRT whenever you view statistics at this level. Case totals and other volume-related metrics will usually be higher for LRT 1 than all others. In addition, statistics represented by percentages for LRT’s made up of smaller counties, such as LRT 8, may be skewed since they may only have a handful of cases and they all fall into the same category.

 

  

 

 

Roundtable 1

  
 

 

Allegheny (02)

Bucks (09)

Delaware (23)

Montgomery (46)

Philadelphia (51)

 

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 1.

 

  
 

Roundtable 2

  
 

 

Berks (06)

Chester (15)

Lancaster (36)

Westmoreland (65)

York (67)

 

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 2.

 

  
 

Roundtable 3

  
 

 

Dauphin (22)

Lackawanna (35)

Lehigh (39)

Luzerne (40)

Northampton (48)

 

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 3.

 

  
 

Roundtable 4

  
 

 

Beaver (04)

Butler (10)

Erie (25)

Cumberland (21)

Washington (63)  

 

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 4.

 

  
 

Roundtable 5/6*

  
 

 

Adams (01)

Blair (07)

Cambria (11)

Centre (14)

Fayette (26)

Franklin (28)

Fulton (29)

Lebanon (38)

Lycoming (41)

Monroe (45)

Northumberland (49)

Schuylkill (54)

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 5/6.

  
 

Roundtable 7

  
 

 

Armstrong (03)

Bedford (05)

Cameron (12)

Clarion (16)

Clearfield (17)

Crawford (20)

Elk (24)

Forest (27)

Greene (30) Huntingdon (31) Indiana (32)

Jefferson (33)

Juniata (34)

Lawrence (37)

Mercer (43)

McKean (42)

Mifflin (44)

Perry (50)

Somerset (56)

Venango (61)

Warren (62)

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 7.

  
 

Roundtable 8

  
 

 

Bradford (08)

Carbon (13)

Clinton (18)

Columbia (19)

Montour (47)

Pike (52)

Potter (53)

Snyder (55)

Susquehanna (58)

Sullivan (57)

Tioga (59)

Union (60)

Wayne (64)

Wyoming (66)

 

Map of Pennsylvania that highlights counties in Roundtable 8.

  
 

 

*When the Leadership Roundtables were originally formed there were eight groups. Roundtables 5 & 6 subsequently voted to combine themselves into a single Roundtable. On the dashboards, consequently, LRT statistics for these counties are combined and the joint Roundtable is referred to as '5/6'.