The five federal performance measures that are utilized in establishing the “Top Ten Award” ranking are as follows: Paternity, cases with support orders, collections on current support, cases with collections on arrears and cost-effectiveness.
The Director's Excellence Award is presented to LCSAs in recognition of their outstanding performance in exceeding all six performance goals established for the federal fiscal year.
In addition, the state established a performance goal for total collections dstributed.

Size Category
When awards categories are given for a specific size of LCSA, the sizes are based on caseload as follows: very small, small, medium, large, very large.

Honorees

Alpine (See Central Sierra)

Amador (See Central Sierra)

Butte – (Medium with 12,260 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Most improved LCSA in overall performance among the 13 total medium LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Calaveras (See Central Sierra)
Central Sierra
(Amador: 1,476 - Alpine: 63 - Calaveras: 1,929 – Tuolumne: 3,117 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #10 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
El Dorado – (Small with 6,637 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #7 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
Humboldt – (Small with 6,985 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #3, tied with Plumas, as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
Imperial – (Medium with 12,640 cases as of 12/2/2011
Imperial was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. Imperial increased distributed collections by 5.96 percent.
Kern – (Large with 52,130 cases as of 11/2/2011
Director's Excellence Award for exceeding all federal performance goals. Kern was one of three chosen out of all 51 LCSAs statewide. The others were San Bernardino and Napa.
Kern was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. Kern increased distributed collections by 3.56 percent.
Madera – (Small with 6,582 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Madera was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. Madera increased distributed collections by 5.89 percent.
Marin – (Very Small with 3,064 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #2 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
The top performing LCSA by size, chosen out of 10 total very small LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Most improved LCSA in overall performance by caseload size.
Mariposa – (Very Small with 778 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #8 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
Received the “Most Improved in CS 34 Distributed Collections.” This year is the first year this award has been given, recognizing the top LCSA out of all 51 LCSAs in the state for having the largest percentage increase over the prior year in collections distributed to families. Mariposa earned this award with a 6.99 percent increase from federal fiscal year 2010 to 2011. Several others were recognized for exceeding the federal performance goal of three percent increase in collections distributed to families:
Imperial 5.96%
Madera 5.89%
Placer 5.04%
San Bernardino 4.59%
Kern 3.56%
Napa 3.03%
Napa – (Small with 4,270 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Director's Excellence Award for exceeding all federal performance goals. Napa was one of three chosen out of all 51 LCSAs statewide. The others were Kern and San Bernardino.
Napa was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. Napa increased distributed collections by 3.03 percent.
Nevada – (See Sierra/Nevada)
Placer – (Medium with 9,456 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Placer was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. Placer increased distributed collections by 5.04 percent.
Plumas – (Very Small with 1,066 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #3, tied with Humboldt, as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
San Bernardino – (Very Large with 120,565 cases as of 11/2/2011
Director's Excellence Award for exceeding all federal performance goals. San Bernardino was one of three chosen out of all 51 LCSAs statewide. The others were Kern and Napa.
San Bernardino was recognized for being one of seven LCSAs that exceeded federal performance standard requiring a three-percent increase over prior year in collections distributed to families. San Bernardino increased distributed collections by 4.59 percent.
San Diego – (Very large with 86,625 cases as of 11/2/2011
The top performing LCSA in the very large category – (very small, small, medium, large, very large)
Most improved LCSA in overall performance by caseload size.
San Luis Obispo – (Small with 4,880 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #1 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
The top performing LCSA by size, chosen out of 12 total small LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Sierra/Nevada – (Small with 4,178 cases as of 11/2/2011)
(Sierra had 157 and Nevada had 4,021 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #5 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
Most improved LCSA in overall performance among the 12 total small LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Sonoma – (Medium with 13,708 cases as of 11/2/11)
The top performing LCSA by size, chosen out of 13 total medium LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Ranked #9 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
Tuolumne (See Central Sierra)
Ventura – (Large with 21,695 cases as of 11/2/2011)
Ranked #6 as performing best out of the 51 LCSAs statewide on overall performance.
The top performing LCSA by size, chosen out of 10 total large LCSAs in California's Child Support System.
Most improved LCSA in overall performance by caseload size.