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Comprehensive Planning:
2007 Guidelines For Planning, Implementation, and Measuring Results
Phase 1 Executive Summary
Phase 2 Instructions
Frequently Asked Questions
Goal:
To facilitate community mobilization and collaboration among community groups, government agencies, private providers and others; to produce one coordinated comprehensive plan in each county for integrated services, programs and strategies that create positive outcomes for children and families.
Senate Bill 555
In 1999 the Oregon Legislature adopted Senate Bill 555, which established a state policy requiring state agencies to work in partnership with local communities to plan, coordinate, and provide services accordingly for Oregon´s children and families. It defined the role for the state and local commissions on children and families in coordinating and facilitating community-based comprehensive planning.
Strong Families and Healthy Communities are Interdependent
- SB 555
What is Coordinated Comprehensive Planning?
The process engages communities in assessing their needs, assets and strengths, and examining their capacity to support children, youth, and their families. Each local commission brings community partners together to initiate the planning process, with the ultimate goal of providing programs that are based on best practices and have measurable outcomes. It is a collaborative process that produces an overall county plan and coordinates and integrates multiple plans from different sources.
Why Do Planning? Integrated, coordinated planning ensures that the whole service delivery system is more collaborative, more inclusive, and more effective. It provides information needed to determine where to best focus resources, such as new project development and expansion of existing services. It paves the way for systems integration, and ensures that all the "bases" are covered.
Who Should Be Involved in Planning? Local communities are best suited to determine their needs, and local decision-making is best suited to determine how those needs are filled. So local citizens from all segments of the community, including service organizations, state and county agencies, churches, civic groups, and businesses are invited to participate.
For information, contact:
Local Commissions
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