Programs of the Clay County Joint Powers Collaborative

Overview

The Clay County Joint Powers Collaborative includes the Family Services Collaborative and the Children's Mental Health Collaborative. Members of the Collaborative Board and of the Advisory Committees represent the Clay County Commission, school districts and cities within the county, a mental health agency, corrections, Head Start, social services, public health, and numerous individuals and providers who serve children and families throughout Clay County. The overall goal of the Collaborative is to work in partnership with Clay County families, communities, agencies/organizations, and institutions to increase opportunities to improve child health and development, reduce barriers to quality school performance, and improve family functioning through enhanced self-esteem and the development of general employment skills.

Clay County Family Services Collaborative Advisory Committee

Goal: To enhance children's self-esteem and ability to lead productive and healthy lives by strengthening families in Clay County.

  • Objective 1: Create an outcome-based, prevention oriented, family focused, holistic and accessible family support and service delivery system to Clay County families.
  • Objective 2: Empower families to participate in a self-assessment in order to improve their ability to access services that enhance their physical and mental well being.

  • Objective 3: Establish a shared database for assessing family needs, managing family activities, and providing coordinated and integrated services to families.

  • Objective 4: Monitor and document family-centered services provided by members of the Family Services Collaborative Advisory Committee and the Children's Mental Health Collaborative Advisory Committee.

Children's Mental Health Collaborative Advisory Committee

Goal: Ensure that a unified, accountable, comprehensive and effective mental health service system will be established in Clay County to provide children and/or adolescents with emotional and/or behavioral problems and their families with mental health care services that meet individual needs. Furthermore, the Children's Mental Health Collaborative Advisory Committee will enhance the coordinated interagency network of services at the community and family level on behalf of children with mental health needs.

  • Objective 1: To address early recognition and intervention of truancy issues, including inability to access services without labels and poor language/reading skills.

  • Objective 2: To address the development and engagement in parenting skills, including education and access to services in rural areas, both in schools and locally, and cross-training in crisis for clergy, policy makers, child care providers, teachers, service providers and others.

Local Collaborative Time Study (LCTS)

The Collaborative manages the Local Collaborative Time Study (LCTS) dollars which have the overall purpose of prventing "out of home placement." Projects currently funded by LCTS projects include:

      • Universal visits to families of newborns and two-year-old children Clay County Public Health
      • Partners In Learning, Community Education, Moorhead Public Schools
      • Truancy Intervention Program, Clay County Joint Power Collaborative
      • Building Families, Rural Enrichment and Counseling Headquarters
      • Child Care Support Services and In-Home Behavioral Services, Access, Inc.
      • Rainbow Bridge, Safe Exchange/Visitation Center, Clay-Wilkin Opportunity Council, Inc.
      • The Attachment and Development Program, The Village Family Service Center
      • Kreative Kids Drop-In Child Care Center, Clay County Joint Powers Collaborative
      • Regional Family Mentor Program, Arc Clay County
      • Alternative Learning Program, ISD #2164
      • After School Academic Mentor Program, Hawley Public School

Other Grants

Other grants managed through the Collaborative include the Adolescent Services Grant, the Wraparound Grant, TEFRA respite dollars for children with mental health issues, the Restorative Justice Program Grant, the Family Support and Outreach Program Grant, the Welfare-to-Work Grant dn the Helpwork Information and Referral Data System.

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