Service Coordination Mechanism (2010)
Service coordination is a way of organizing services for families and children. It finds agencies, people and services that can help children and families. Then, with the family’s involvement, it creates a plan to get the child and family what they need.Who is eligible for Service Coordination?
Any Logan County family with a child under the age of 21 in need of a coordinated plan to address needs in 2 or more areas of life, that are unable to be met by an individual agency may be eligible for service coordination.
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Activities of Service Coordination:
- The coordination of evaluations and assessments
- The development & evaluation of a Comprehensive Wraparound Plan
- The identification of available service providers
- The coordination and monitoring of service delivery
- Referral to advocacy services
- The development of a transition plan when service coordination ends
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Commitments and Values
- Children have the right to live with their own family.
- Children have the right to be nurtured and protected in a stable family environment.
- When children are at risk of harm, the community has the responsibility to intervene.
- Families are our community’s most important resource and must be respected, valued and encouraged to build upon their strengths.
- The racial, cultural and ethnic heritage of children and the neighborhoods where they live are respected and supported as strengths. Ethnic and cultural child-rearing practices are valued.
- Families have the right and responsibility to participate in identifying their concerns, priorities and needed resources.
- Families have a right to individualized service provisions that addresses the multiple needs of their children