Systems for Wrap-Around Support

Goal: Create a better experience for youth and their families and provide the right resources to those who need them most

Theory: If each organization knows what resources are being offered to a youth and their family, then they can better coordinate the provision of those services and work through trusted relationships to support the family more effectively.

Strategies

 Unified System

Take advantage of Microsoft’s donation to MBSKCO in order to provide a suite of technologies to community-based organizations (CBOs) that support their needs, encouraging widespread adoption and common infrastructure

Success Measurement

Replicate / integrate the processes that Montbello Organizing Committee (MOC) has established for its mental health programs. Recruit other interested orgs to help us generalize those methods to apply to the wide range of community programs offered.

Case Management

Replicate / integrate the system that Life-Line Colorado uses to define the case management functionality that will both support program operations and enable referrals, partnering CaseMgr and building on the robust efforts of the Latino Coalition

Legal

Put dedicated work into creating a module that can collect release of information forms from families and help them understand what they are signing and the implications

Iterative Expansion

Recruit additional community-based organizations to use the system and continue to extend functionality to ensure it can generically support all who would wish to use it, building on the investment of above orgs

An overview of this impact team’s work is here.

Running notes from impact team meetings are here.