Purpose:

The Human Services Coordinating Body shall promote the welfare of the community through the joint planning, collaboration, and promotion of human services, with an emphasis on prevention. The activities of the HSCB are designed to promote the following goals:

To make existing human services more effective through interagency support and collaboration.
To allow for the expansion of existing human service projects which have demonstrated effectiveness.
To establish additional human service programs based on:
- Making existing human services more effective through interagency support and collaboration.
- Thorough review and analysis of programming alternatives.
- Pooling of resources.
- A community systems approach to programming.
To review, on a periodic basis, human service programs to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency.
To facilitate change in the contributing environmental risk factors and funding levels by engaging relevant policy makers, organizations, and the community.
To provide for a basis for safeguarding existing programs in difficult economic times.

Implications:

The HSCB is involved in bringing the human service agencies to smoother cooperation by finding new and more effective ways to do business. The buzz words here are: pooled, integrated, comprehensive, flexible, consumer driven, and accessible.
The HSCB should know the answer to the question, “What human resources in Gladwin County are we lacking or in need of modifying?” We should be looking at what systems need improving so there is no wrong door for clients.
We should be reforming the system by urging change in the way the workers do business. Much of this is accomplished by the HSCB being involved in a comprehensive planning process which is updated regularly. HSCB plans should include the various allocations and contracts under its direct control as well as agency activities not under its direct control.

Membership:

Various requirements provide for a minimal membership of eight persons or their designees (able to speak for the agency): FIA, Prosecutor, Michigan Works!, Area Agency on Aging, MidMichigan Community Action Agency, Mental Health, Clare Gladwin Regional Education Service District, Public Health, and Probate Judge.
Several other categories of members are indispensable: Clergy, business leaders, county government officials, and consumers of human services. These community members provide a watchdog service.

Meetings:

Usually monthly
Executive, membership, and community planning committees meet as needed.

Activities:

The planning goals of the HSCB are met primarily by distributing funds that are allocated to it from various sources (primarily FIA). The HSCB serves as the decision making body over each of these initiatives.
The philosophy is that local bodies such as the HSCB can better determine how human services funds should be spent to address local concerns rather than a statewide decision that every community is best served by a single program.

Strong Families Safe Children:

Gladwin HSCB distributes $120,000 a year from a state allocation. SFSC initiatives must address at least four outcomes: increase immunizations, decrease children in out of home placements, increase adoptions, and improve services to kinship caregivers. Currently the HSCB distributes this money in six contracts:

1. HSCB coordinator and referral services, $22,500

2. FIT (or COPE II), a wraparound program for families, $28,000. Families are referred by the schools instead of regular COPE referrals which come only from FIA and are limited to delinquent or neglect/abuse court wards.

3. Healthy Start, a newborn home visitation program, $25,000

4. Immunizations, $15,000

5. COPE, a wraparound program for families. Families are referred by the Juvenile Court and FIA. $22,000.

6.Foster Home Recruitment and Training, $9,500.

7. Kinship Care Support Group, $1,400.

Child Protection Working together as Community Partners:

This state allocation to Gladwin HSCB targets services to children in families investigated by Children’s Protective Services, found to be low risk, but in need of services. Gladwin’s allocation of $44,000 has gone to enlarge the Wraparound program, actually the FIT portion, to allow Wraparound to include such families in its services.

HSCB serves as advisory body for other groups:

In many ways the HSCB serves as one meeting that does the work of three.

What do HSCB members “get” out of their membership?

Sharing information
Updates of new human resource programs
Helps me to refer individuals to the correct programs
Puts a face to a name
Problem solving

Purpose:

The Human Services Coordinating Body shall promote the welfare of the community through the joint planning, collaboration, and promotion of human services, with an emphasis on prevention. The activities of the HSCB are designed to promote the following goals:

To make existing human services more effective through interagency support and collaboration.

To allow for the expansion of existing human service projects which have demonstrated effectiveness.

To establish additional human service programs based on:

Making existing human services more effective through interagency support and collaboration.

Thorough review and analysis of programming alternatives.

Pooling of resources.

A community systems approach to programming.

To review, on a periodic basis, human service programs to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency.

To facilitate change in the contributing environmental risk factors and funding levels by engaging relevant policy makers, organizations, and the community.

To provide for a basis for safeguarding existing programs in difficult economic times.

Implications:

The HSCB is involved in bringing the human service agencies to smoother cooperation by finding new and more effective ways to do business. The buzz words here are: pooled, integrated, comprehensive, flexible, consumer driven, and accessible.

The HSCB should know the answer to the question, “What human resources in Gladwin County are we lacking or in need of modifying?” We should be looking at what systems need improving so there is no wrong door for clients.

Membership:

Several other categories of members are indispensable: Clergy, business leaders, county government officials, and consumers of human services. These community members provide a watchdog service.

Meetings:

Usually monthly

Executive, membership, and community planning committees meet as needed.

Activities:

The planning goals of the HSCB are met primarily by distributing funds that are allocated to it from various sources (primarily FIA). The HSCB serves as the decision making body over each of these initiatives.

The philosophy is that local bodies such as the HSCB can better determine how human services funds should be spent to address local concerns rather than a statewide decision that every community is best served by a single program.

Strong Families Safe Children:

1. HSCB coordinator and referral services, $22,500

2. FIT (or COPE II), a wraparound program for families, $28,000. Families are referred by the schools instead of regular COPE referrals which come only from FIA and are limited to delinquent or neglect/abuse court wards.

3. Healthy Start, a newborn home visitation program, $25,000

4. Immunizations, $15,000

5. COPE, a wraparound program for families. Families are referred by the Juvenile Court and FIA. $22,000.

6.Foster Home Recruitment and Training, $9,500.

7. Kinship Care Support Group, $1,400.

Child Protection Working together as Community Partners:

HSCB serves as advisory body for other groups:

In many ways the HSCB serves as one meeting that does the work of three.

What do HSCB members “get” out of their membership?

Sharing information

Updates of new human resource programs

Helps me to refer individuals to the correct programs

Puts a face to a name

Problem solving