Thursday, May 2, 2024
5/2/2024
The overall goal of the Onondaga County Family and Youth Driven Transformation Initiative is to transform from a provider driven to a cultural/linguistically competent, family and youth- driven system of care for children with serious emotional disturbances (SED), and their families, served by multiple service systems. There will be a special focus on addressing those who have been disproportionately placed in residential care (African Americans), and transitioning youth. The Initiative will build upon existing best practices (e.g., strong cross system planning team, child/family team/wraparound; family partners) by addressing/achieving several objectives: fully invest in family/youth-driven approaches to care and systems; strengthen infrastructure to support cross system service delivery, policy reform, evaluation, planning, and financing; elevate the level of cultural and linguistic competence system-wide; expand community-based wraparound planning for youth/families who are in/at high risk for entry into out-of-home care; restructure the role of residential care in the system of care so that its purpose and goals for each child are clear and that it is used 'strategically' for short-term assessment, treatment, stabilization and/or safety; make better use of existing community-based intensive services capacity and partnerships and thoughtfully add to this capacity to ensure that children remain in the community and in their families with appropriate support whenever possible; significantly increase community-based services and supports; and increase resources in the community to nurture the development of natural supports and thus reduce reliance on formal systems.
HHS’ Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS) website provides access to detailed descriptions of grants, loans, aggregated direct payments and other types of financial assistance awarded by the HHS Operating Divisions (OPDIVs) and the Office of the Secretary Staff Divisions (STAFFDIVs).
