Mission
To provide shelter services to children
and youth of any age who need temporary out-of-home housing, and
for whom another resource is not available, through the development
of community based and operated shelter services.
Goal 1
Reach agreement among partners about
the scope of services to be provided (state and local partners)
- Get stakeholders committed to
mission
- Establish model parameters for
local planning and agreements
- Establish memoranda of understanding
between state and local partners
Goal 2
Create flexible and pooled funding
(all inclusive funding) at the state and local levels for the
provision of shelter services
- Build administrative support for
unrestricted funding (out of categorical funding)
- Identify new and existing resources
of funding and barriers to providing services
- Determine services model
- Build or identify management structure
at state and local level to manage flexible funding
- Build auditable system
Other Priority Activities
- Create state administrative management
team
- Create local administrative management
- Visit communities to determine
match with proposed model
- Assist counties in coordinating
data
- Identify local needs
- Build information-sharing mechanism--databases
which talk to each other
- Develop database of children and
youth currently receiving shelter services to better define extent
and characteristics of population
- Develop/integrate comprehensive
plan in each county to deliver shelter services locally
- Develop statewide comprehensive
plan by November 2002
- Create specialized recruitment
for resources for adolescents
- Establish local capacity in each
community to provide services
