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

STARK COUNTY FAMILY COUNCIL BOARD OF TRUSTEES
GOVERNANCE AND POLICY

Parent Advisory Council FACES of Stark County
  1. Consists of Parents from all existing parent groups across the county.
  2. Meets Monthly
  3. Parents as customer voices.

Executive Committee
  1. Consists of Pooled funders and parent representatives.
  2. Meets Monthly
  3. Personnel issues, budget and operations

Family Council Affiliates
  1. Consists of School, Community or neighborhood driven affiliates which develop regional or neighborhood infrastructures.
  2. Meets Monthly
  3. Each Family Council affiliate has a position on the county wide Family Council

ACCCORD
  1. Consists of Mid-level managers.
  2. Meets two times monthly.
  3. Accomplish managed care and analyze data, make service recommendations

Early Intervention Collaborative
  1. Consists of services and planning 0-3 year olds.
  2. Meets Monthly
  3. 0-3 Providers.

FAMILY COUNCIL MEMBERSHIP
  1. Allows for an inclusive approach to membership.
  2. Comprised of, but not limited to any person or agency interested in the children's area.
  3. Meets monthly

Working Councils
  1. Common Good
  2. Community
  3. Cultural
  4. Post Adoption
  5. Young Children
  6. For Employment
  7. Violence
  8. Competence
  9. Family Support Systems
    Each Meets Monthly

Creative Community Options
  1. Child and Family Teams
  2. Meets as needed Usually within 30 - 90 days