| Types of collaborations |
Examples from Family Council |
Interagency contracts and written agreements |
Pooled Funds Agreement, Family Council Bylaws, Service Coordination Plan, County Plan for children |
| Managing care across multiple social service systems |
Creative Community Options, ACCORD, lead case manager assignments, common case plans, ACCESS line |
| Community resource and service development |
Ohio Early Start, Project LIFE, Family Stability Incentive Fund, Early Childhood Mobile Unit, Healthy Tomorrows, Southeastern Comm. Ctr., Summit School Family Resource Center, Wellness Block Grant |
| Eliminating duplication / maximizing services |
Treatment Foster Care, Sex Offender Services for Young Children, Transition Beds, Professional Parenting, Lead System Case Management |
| Improved access to services - Working toward a seamless system with common intake, common assessment and common case plans |
Creative Community Options, Community Services Workstation Network: A multimedia technology to form a network for community social services, A county-wide telephone line for parents to access information - an "information line" |
| Parent support networks that bring parent groups together |
FACES of Stark County: A working parent council |
| Public and private sectors working toward serving parents better |
The Working Councils including: Cultural Competence, Employment, Post Adoption Family Support Systems, and Young Children - all are county-wide community partners |
| Redeployment of existing staff into the community and neighborhoods |
Summit School, Alliance City Schools and the Family Preservation Unit, Juvenile Justice, Head Start |
| Interagency transition procedures |
Project LIFE (Local Interagency Transition Teams: LITT) |
| Coordination of Early Childhood Services |
Working Council on Young Children, Ohio Early Start, Early Intervention Collaborative |
| Employment of paid collaborative infrastructure staff |
Stark County Family Council Staff |