Community Infrastructure

In every community there is a need for a human service system infrastructure; a place where systems, providers and families can come together. In Stark County, we are moving to a seamless systems approach to family driven services.

Mechanism
Stark County Family Council
FAMILY LEVEL
  • Individual child and family teams
  • Strengths-based assessment process
  • Direct service level with parents and children
Creative Community Options CCO
  • Meets often as needed to develop creative, flexible services with families
  • Identifies services that will really help
AGENCY LEVEL
  • Clinical review teams
  • Brokering, bending or breaking bureaucratic rules
  • Identify service gaps
  • Develop new services
  • Parents problem solving with mid-level management
ACCORD
  • Meets twice monthly to help CCO teams get what they need
  • Tries to get through bureaucratic red tape for the family
  • Develops recommendations for the Board to redirect service dollars to better meet the service needs of families as identified in Creative Community Options
SYSTEMS LEVEL
  • Systems development
  • Resource development
  • Resources redirected
  • Policy impact
  • Systems executives with
Family Council Board of Trustees
  • In partnership with families, providers and the community to make a difference
  • Redirecting resources together through effective collaborative decisions