City Council Agenda and Packet 1978 04 04

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? ,r low 11 KRV 1CVS I NTECHA!ION l'K . A • A State and Local Government Partnership Proposal This is a proposal for project under the Colorado State-Local Partnership in Nyasa Services. Pro�act Descrlgtion _ •ri The proposed project is to collect preplanning data and to develop a comprehensive plan which can be implemented countywide to integrate the delivery of human services, involving all of the major service providers. The initial efforts at human service integration planning occurred in Boulder County in 1974 at the time that the first partnership grant was funded and the State Human Services Cabinet Council established. Those initial cffnr1 , failed because of a lack of ongoing interest and sense of direction on ten p .st of some local agencies. A. second planning effort was begun in July, 1977 with the encouragement of the Region VIII HEW Intergovernmental Affairs Officer and the staff of the State Office of Human Resources. A group of agency directors has been meeting regularly for the past eight months. They are the directors of County Departments of Social Services, Human Resources, Probation, Sheriff, County Clerk, City of Boulder Human Resources, Mental Health Center. and a representative of Boulder County United Way. The goal of this group has been "to explore the feasibility and the'value of developing an integrated, effective and efficient human services planning and delivery system to benefit clients arid, indirectly, to benefit service providers." In addition to the biweekly meetings, one full-day workshop was held with two consultants to provide information regarding integration efforts of other communities arount the country and social planning concepts. The City's Human Resources Director then made an onsite visit of one of those projects. The County Department of Social Services and Boulder County United Way have provided staff time to study and to report on the interagency cooperative planning and information-sharing r+hich are currently in place in Boulder County. Exemplary of our interagency planning is the application Which was submitted for Boulder County's designation as a demonstration area for the Community Care Organization. The next phase of this endeavor is to identify the major decision makers in the human service planning and delivery system, including elected officials and representatives from various levels of government. and to call them together to present the rationale for a better integrated system. At this tweeting it will be suggested that a Human Services Planning Alliance be organized, made up of these decision makers and others whom they might suggest. Members will be asked to commit a limited amount of staff time to collect data which will describe the "human services industry" in Boulder County. Included well be the dollar amount involved in human service delivery, nueaber of jobs created, program size, client load, and function of the various providers including such areas as health, housing, transportation, and recreation as well as the more traditional social services. After this preplanning information is documented, it will be suggested that the Human Services Planning Alliance contribute the time of their planners