Service Coordination: A Guide for Families
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The purpose of service coordination is to bring children and families together with the services they need.
Your individual family service coordination plan identifies services, agencies, and how agencies and your family will share responsibilities.
Your family is an important part of the family service coordination planning team of your county Family and Child First Council (FCFC).
The law says that each county FCFC must have at least three family members who have received services from an FCFC member agency.
The law says that the county FCFC must be evaluated and monitored by the state, by counties and by families.
If you disagree with your individual family service coordination plan, you have the right to file a complaint through the dispute resolution process.
Your county's service coordination mechanism is your county's plan to get agencies to work together as a team to provide services.
Your FCFC must follow the county service coordination mechanism to develop individual family service coordination plans.
The family members on the FCFC have a say in their county's service coordination mechanism and how service coordination works.
Become a member of your county FCFC to have a voice in how service coordination works for children and families in your county.