The Allegheny County Department of Human Services invited the Family Support Policy Board to take the lead in designing and implementing this reform initiative.
Communities have diverse resources and needs.
However, all too often, efforts to improve the well-being of children and families are unnecessarily duplicated, fragmented and uncoordinated. This Initiative focuses on the ways communities can more effectively coordinate and organize local resources to meet their unique needs. The goal of the Initiative is to strengthen families. The context is the community in which families live. The strategy is to build enduring community-wide, integrated service networks which build on family strengths, resources and natural supports and addresses needs families cannot otherwise meet themselves.