The Cuyahoga County Service Coordination model is a navigation process designed to direct parents with children, prenatal through graduation, to appropriate services. It directs parents to a full scale of quality services for their children, particularly kids who are having a tough time, and are having difficulties with the traditional service system. It focuses on developing a coordinated and cooperative public system infrastructure that promotes cross system collaboration—at the policy, programmatic, and case levels.

The Service Coordination Team (SCT) exists to help children with multiple needs and who are involved in multiple public systems, and their families, access appropriate community services and to assure the effective coordination and delivery of services among systems for the child's best possible health and safety. This team works within the public systems to ensure families are not experiencing system barriers. The Service Coordination Team works with family teams ("wraparound" or "wrap" teams) to assist when children are in crisis or in need of a short-term placement. These system liaisons are able to commit dollars on behalf of the systems they represent, and help monitor the child’s length of stay. This subcommittee meets monthly.

Service Coordination Team Members