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Local Systems of Care

Improving the Lives of Youth and Families in Local Communities

The Oregon System of Care is doing exciting work around Oregon. Find your local System of Care below to learn:

  • How to get connected. Connection with your local System of Care supports the growth and transformation of your system and communities it serves. 
  • About System of Care governance. Local and regional Systems of Care Governance Committees lead Oregon's local Systems of Care. These committees are made up of youth and families, service providers, state agencies, and care coordination organizations throughout the state. Find committee resources and contact information below.
  • What System of Care communities do. Groups around the state meet to improve the access to, and quality of services for, youth and families in their communities.

Learn more about Oregon's System of Care

Local Systems of Care: Use this form to submit updates to the information listed below

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Deschutes County System of Care

​Executive Comm​​ittee (Desch​​​utes, Crook & Jefferson Counties):

Meets quarterly, the seco​nd Tuesday of the month from 5:30 to 7 p.m. This is a hybrid meeting, in-person as well as virtual.

Crook County Workgroup:

  • ​​Combined Level Committee: F​ourth Monday of each month from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. (virtual only).

​Deschutes County​​ W​orkgroups:

  • Advisory Committee: Collaborative Youth Action Alliance, Third Tuesday of each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m. 
  • Practice Level Workgroup: Tuesdays from 11:30 a.m. to noon (virtual only).

​About W​​raparound

To learn more about local wraparound services:

​​Barrier Submiss​ion Form

Talk to us! Complete the online submission form

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​​Making Life Better for Oregon Families

Raising a child with complex needs is challenging. Obstacles face parents at every turn. It takes patience and persistence to navigate the many systems serving youth and families:
  • Schools
  • ODHS Child Welfare
  • Mental health treatment
  • Substance use treatment
  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Recreation
  • Law enforcement and juvenile justice
  • Early learning and early childhood services
  • Primary care and physical health
  • Dental health
  • Social service programs that address basic needs such as food, housing, and transportation
The System o​f Care aims to help young people thrive at home, in school, with friends, and in their communities. We collaborate to create a brighter future for all youth — a future that builds on the strengths of each child and honors all families' voices and choices, and where systems are aligned and responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of all.

Ou​​r Vision

Youth and families are empowered and prepared to achieve their fullest potential and realize their hopes and dreams.

Ou​r Mission​​​​

We seek to improve outcomes for local youth and families through a network of effective, community-based services and supports.

System of Care is grounded in these values and principles:
  • Youth and family guided: Youth and families have a direct voice in their own care.
  • Community-based: Services are available in the community; in people's neighborhoods and homes.
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive: Services and supports are available which match a family's culture, race, ethnicity, and language.
  • Coordinated and collaborative: Community agencies and systems work together to support families.
  • Individualized and strength-based: Youth and families are resilient and resourceful.
  • Data-driven: We use knowledge to focus our efforts.
  • Trauma-informed: Services recognize past trauma and do not create new trauma.

Contact Information

Kristina Sexton, Systems of Care Coordinator
The Next Door Inc. 

kristinas@nextdoorinc.org​

​​​Join Us!

​​Use your voice and exp​​erience to advocate for local children, youth, and families. The System of Care welcomes youth and family members who would like to share their experiences to help transform family-serving systems.

​Advisory Committee

​​​Second Thursday of each month, 9 to 10 a.m.

Email kristinas@nextdoorinc.org to receive a link to the virtual meeting, the agenda, and other materials. 

​​Executive Com​mittee

​Third T​​​hursday of January, April, July and October, 9 to 10:30 a.m.

Email kristinas@nextdoorinc.org to receive a link to the virtual meeting, the agenda, and other materials. ​

​Looking for Wraparoun​​d Care Coordination?

“Wraparound" means coordinating care for young people involved with multiple systems. The Wraparound process brings together different services, supports, and systems to help youth and families succeed.

For information about Wraparound Care Coordination in Hood River and Wasco Counties, visit Mid-Columbia Center for Living.​

​​How to Report Barriers

A barrier is a problem or obstacle to receiving needed services or support. The Barrier Submission Form exists to help you report a barrier or problem you've identified. Once you submit the form, System of Care members work together to address it.

Examples of barriers being addressed in Oregon include:
  • The need for health care providers to match the culture and language of the people they work with
  • The need for more foster homes that understand trauma
  • The need for a community-wide, coordinated suicide prevention plan
  • The need to support our most vulnerable youth and families during the COVID-19 pandemic
You can access the Barrier Submission Form here.
Please note:
  • The barrier reporting process is not intended to address urgent situations
  • Please do not include identifying information or Protected Health Information, such as names, birthdays, health information, etc.
  • This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners.
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​We Are Here for You

Families know the challenge and uncertainty of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day.

  • ​What is the best course of action?
  • How do I give my child's voice a chance to be heard?

In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities.

That is where the Children's System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children.

A System of Care is:

  • A spectrum of effective, community-based services and supports for children and youth with or at risk for mental health or other challenges and their families.
  • A coordinated network that builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth. It addresses their cultural and linguistic needs, in order to help them to function better at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.

Systems of Care Core Values:

  1. Family driven, and youth guided, with the strengths and needs of the child and family determining the types and mix of services and supports provided.
  2. Community based, with the locus of services as well as system management resting within a supportive, adaptive infrastructure of structures, processes, and relationships at the community level.
  3. Culturally and linguistically competent*, with agencies, programs, and services that reflect the cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic differences of the populations they serve to facilitate access to and utilization of appropriate services and supports and to eliminate disparities in care.

Systems of Care are designed to:

  1. Ensure availability and access to a broad, flexible array of effective, community-based services and supports for children and their families that address their emotional, social, educational, and physical needs, including traditional and nontraditional services as well as natural and informal supports.
  2. Provide individualized services in accordance with the unique potentials and needs of each child and family, guided by a strengths-based, wraparound service planning process and an individualized service plan developed in true partnership with the child and family.
  3. Ensure that services and supports include evidence-informed and promising practices, as well as interventions supported by practice-based evidence, to ensure the effectiveness of services and improve outcomes for children and their families.
  4. Deliver services and supports within the least restrictive, most normative environments that are clinically appropriate.
  5. Ensure that families, other caregivers, and youth are full partners in all aspects of the planning and delivery of their own services and in the policies and procedures that govern care for all children and youth in their community, state, territory, tribe, and nation.
  6. Ensure that services are integrated at the system level, with linkages between child-serving agencies and programs across administrative and funding boundaries and mechanisms for system-level management, coordination, and integrated care management.
  7. Provide care management or similar mechanisms at the practice level to ensure that multiple services are delivered in a coordinated and therapeutic manner and that children and their families can move through the system of services in accordance with their changing needs.
  8. Provide developmentally appropriate mental health services and supports that promote optimal social-emotional outcomes for young children and their families in their homes and community settings.
  9. Provide developmentally appropriate services and supports to facilitate the transition of youth to adulthood and to the adult service system as needed.
  10. Incorporate or link with mental health promotion, prevention, and early identification and intervention in order to improve long-term outcomes, including mechanisms to identify problems at an earlier stage and mental health promotion and prevention activities directed at all children and adolescents.
  11. Incorporate continuous accountability and quality improvement mechanisms to track, monitor, and manage the achievement of system of care goals; fidelity to the system of care philosophy; and quality, effectiveness, and outcomes at the system level, practice level, and child and family level.
  12. Protect the rights of children and families and promote effective advocacy efforts.
  13. Provide services and supports without regard to race, religion, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, physical disability, socio-economic status, geography, language, immigration status, or other characteristics, and ensure that services are sensitive and responsive to these differences.

*The term culturally responsive is used more commonly in Oregon. Updating the System of Care Concept and Philosophy, Issue Brief from the National Technical ​Assistance Center for Childre​​n’s Mental Health, by Beth Stroul, Gary Blau and Robert Friedman

Orientatio​n Guide

Are you interested in joining the System of Care and want to learn more? This orientation guide will provide helpful information about our System of Care and how you can help.

Contact​ Information

Email: coossystemofcare@advancedhealth.com
Phone: 541-266-6523 
Facebook 
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​Our Meetings

Practice Level Workgroup
2nd and 4th Friday of each month, 10 to 11 a.m.
Location: In-person and virtual meeting

SOC Advisory ​​​​Committee

2nd Wednesday of the month, 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Location: In-person and virtual meeting

SOC Executive Council
4th Monday of the month, 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Location: In-person and virtual meeting

For all meetings, email coossystemofcare@advancedhealth.com​ to:
  • Confirm location and time.
  • Receive an agenda and meeting materials.

Commitment to ​Comm​​unity Representation ​and ​Equity

The System of Care will strive to have committee membership that represents:
  • The populations served, 
  • The systems providing services, and 
  • Members who can problem-solve barriers at all levels of operation.
The System of Care will have a multi-layered approach to representation:
  1. The three governance committees represent different levels of authority in systems and organizations (e.g., executives, managers, supervisors, front-line staff).
  2. Committee membership will come from diverse systems which serve the target population (e.g., education, developmental disabilities, criminal justices, hospital systems and more).
  3. Committees will hear family and youth voices alongside professional members, with the Advisory Committee specifically seeking equal participation of family and youth voice.
  4. Committees will prioritize voices of non-dominant cultures, persons and languages by dedicating 10 member seats for culturally specific organizations and representatives.
The system's Cultural Responsiveness Alliance will help guide the governance structure to ensure that all governance activities, including member recruitment, are responsive to the diverse communities who live and access services in the Coos County region.

​Barrier S​​ubmission Form

Do you know a young person who has experienced a problem or barrier while working with child-serving systems? A barrier is a problem or block to receiving needed services and support.

If so, then you have come to the right place. The barrier submission form allows you to identify and describe your problem or barrier. Please use the links below to fill out the barrier submission form.

  • View the barrier submission form in English (coming soon)
  • View the barrier submission​ form in Spanish (coming soon)
Once you submit a barrier submission form, System of Care members work together to resolve barriers, improve systems, and create healthy communities.

Please note: Not all barriers will be addressed every month, and this process is not intended to address urgent situations or crisis situations. This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners. Please do not include Protected Health Information on this form.​

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About Curry County System of Care​

​​​​​We Are Here for You

Families know the challenge and uncertainty of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day.

  • What is the best course of action?
  • How do I give my child's voice a chance to be heard?

In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities.

That is where the Children's System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children.

​​​​Our Vision and Values

Youth and families have a supportive, collaborative community with sufficient resources and are empowered to be healthy, safe, resilient, and thriving.

We believe serv​​ices and supports for children, youth, and families should be:

  • Youth and family guided: Youth and families have a direct voice in their own care.
  • Community-based: Services are available in the community; in people's neighborhoods and homes.
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive: Services and supports are available which match a family's culture, race, ethnicity and language.
  • Coordinated and Collaborative: Community agencies and systems work together to support families.
  • Individualized and Strength-based: Youth and families are resilient and resourceful.
  • Trauma-Informed: Services recognize past trauma and do not create new trauma.​

Contact Info​​rmation

Email: Roxanne Robinson or Pamela Huntley

Phone: 541-471-4106 ext. 8166 (Roxanne Robinson)

Our Meetings

​​​​Practice Level Workgroup

Third Thursday of each month, 10 to 11 a.m.
Location: Virtual Meeting

​​​​​Advisory and Executive Committee​​

First Wednesday of every other month (even months), 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Location: Virtual meeting

​For all meetings, email Roxanne Robinson to:

  • Confirm location and time.
  • Receive an agenda and meeting materials.

​​​Barrier Submission Form

Do you know a young person who has experienced a problem or barrier while working with child-serving systems? A barrier is a problem or block to receiving needed services and support.

If so, then you have come to the right place. The barrier submission form allows you to identify and describe your problem or barrier. Please use the link below to fill out the barrier submission form.

Click here for the barrier submission form.

Once you submit a barrier submission form, System of Care members work together to resolve barriers, improve systems, and create healthy communities.

Please note: Not all barriers will be addressed every month. This process is not intended to address urgent situations or crisis situations. This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners. Please do not include Protected Health Information​ on this form.​

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​Mission

The Douglas County System of Care is a collaborative network of resources and supports focused on the total health of children, from ages 0-25, and families who are experiencing multi-system involvement. The SOC supports a family-driven, youth-guided approach to care that allows needs to be met within their own community and through their own cultural lens. We want children, young adults and families in Douglas County to thrive in every aspect of their lives.

Vision

Community resources that coordinate and collaborate to assist youth and families to reach their full potential.

Values and Principles

  • Family Driven and Youth Guided – Using the strengths and needs of the youth and family to determine the types and mix of services and supports provided.
  • Community-Based – The locus of services as well as system management rests within a supportive, adaptive infrastructure of structures, processes, and relationships at the community level.
  • Culturally and Linguistically Responsive – Agencies, programs, and services reflect the personal identification and orientation, cultural, racial, ethnic, and linguistic differences of the populations they serve.

Onboarding and Orientation

If you are interesting in joining the Douglas System of Care, please email the contact information below.

Contact Information

Email: DouglasSOC@umpquahealth.com

Other:

We offer System of Care Support and Success Funding. This funding is:

  • For programs supporting youth and families to achieve goals, celebrate success, and maintain progress.
  • Intended to be supplemental to existing program funding rather than the primary funding source.

Who can apply? An existing program, project, provider, organization, company or initiative serving Douglas County youth and families. The focus is on programs that can use more resources to continue or expand successful initiatives. The hope is that this funding will assist in shifting to a strengths-based perspective of working with youth and families by supporting success, development, and growth.

Workgroups

​The Douglas County System of Care consists of:

  1. A combined Practice Level Workgroup and Advisory Committee referred to as simply the Advisory Committee, and
  2. The Executive Council.

In addition, we offer a SOC Breakfast, where we provide a space for the SOC to provide presentations and additional training opportunities.

SOC Advisory Committee

3rd Tuesday of every month, 1:30 p.m.

SOC Executive Council

3rd Monday of every month, 3:30 p.m.

SOC Breakfast

3rd Thursday of every month, 8 a.m.

For all meetings, email DouglasSOC@umpquahealth.com​​ to:

  • Confirm meeting location and time.
  • Receive an agenda and meeting materials.

​Wraparound offers Intensive Care Coordination (ICC) for children, youth, and families 0-18. It consists of team based planning and mental health services and is youth driven to address needs and build on strengths. Youth works with a facilitator to build their Wraparound team, which can include friends, family, service providers and others. 

​What is the Barrier Submission Form?

This form is used by the System of Care Advisory Committee within the Douglas System of Care (SOC) governance structure to help identify potential barriers preventing youth and families from achieving their full potential. 

The Advisory Committee is comprised of supervisors from youth serving providers and system partners. The Advisory Committee collects identified barriers and looks for themes that may need to be resolved. Once a barrier is recognized as needing resolution, the Committee makes recommendations either to the supervisors, managers, and system partners most likely to be able to address the barrier within their system or up to the Executive Council. 

The Executive Council brings together a group of leaders from various systems (health care, education, behavioral health, tribes, etc.) to address system barriers that have not been resolved at the Advisory Committee level and often require policy and funding changes, create and or provide guidance on SOC strategic plan, and send barriers that cannot be resolved to the State level SOC Steering Committee.


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​The Eastern Oregon ​System of Care is formed of community partners and informal supports that work together to provide a spectrum of effective services and supports for youth and families who have complex needs and challenges. We believe that community partners should have a shared philosophy when working together to support those in our community. 

Vision

All children and families in EOCCO c​​ounties will thrive and have the supports they need to feel empowered, independent, healthy, and hopeful for their future to reach their full potential.

Mission

Children, youth and families will have a collaborative System of Care that:

  • Is trauma-informed, family-driven, youth-guided, culturally responsive and community-based.
  • Empowers them to succeed and develop resilience.
  • Provides culturally responsive resources.
  • Involves youth and families in all discussions.
  • Provides both an early intervention and prevention focus;.
  • Gives them hope for their futures, and offers the experience of measurable change. 
  • Provides the highest quality services and supports that are equitable and consistent.

Contact Information

Eastern Oregon Coordinated Care Organization (EOCCO) and 
Greater Oregon Behavioral Health, Inc. (GOBHI):

Visit us at https://www.gobhi.org/systems-of-care-wraparound

​Baker County Workgroups

​​Review and Practice Level Workgroup​​
2nd Wednesday of each month, 1 p.m.
​​Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
​​​4th Tuesday of each month, 4 p.m.
Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Gilliam, Grant, Harney, Lake, Morrow and W​heeler Cou​​nty Workgroups

Meeting times and locations TBD

Mal​heur County Workgroups

Review and Practice Level Workgroup
2nd Tuesday of each month, 3:30 p.m. Mountain Time
​​ Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
​​​4th Wednesday of each month, 12:15 p.m. Mountain Time
Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Sherman County Workgroups

Review and Practice Level Workgroup​​
4th Monday of each month, 1 p.m.
OSU Extension Office

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
1st Thursday of odd months, 9 a.m.
Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Umatilla County Workgroups

Review and Practice Level Workgroup​​
3rd Tuesday of each month, 2 p.m.
​ ​Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
Date and time TBD

U​nion County Workgroups

Review and Practice Level Workgroup​​
3rd Wednesday of each month, 8 a.m.
​​Currently meeting virtually due to COVID 19

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
Date and time TBD

Wallowa C​ounty Workgroups

Review and Practice Level Workgroup​​
3rd Thursday of each month, 2 p.m.
​​Wallowa County Courthouse

Advisory and Ex​​ecutive Comm​​​ittee
Date and time TBD

​​​Wraparound

​Wraparound works within the framework of Systems of Care. It is a collaborative process where a team of formal, informal and natural supports come together to make an individualized plan to meet the needs of the youth and family. 

The first phase of wrap is engagement and team preparation, the second phase is plan development, the third phase is plan implementation and the final phase is transition. Wraparound always follows the following 10 principles:

  1. Family Voice and Choice
  2. Team Based
  3. Natural Supports
  4. Collaboration
  5. Community Based
  6. Culturally Competent
  7. Individualized
  8. Strengths Based
  9. Persistence
  10. Outcome Based​

​​​Barrier Submission Form

A primary component of Systems of Care is to identify and resolve barriers. If you are experiencing a problem or barrier within the community, please download and fil​l out our barrier submission form (.docx) and send it to tsharp@gobhi.org.​

​We Are Here ​​for You

Families know the challenge and uncertainty of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day. 
  • What is the best course of action? 
  • How do I navigate the complex world of child-serving systems? 
  • How do I give my child’s voice a chance to be heard?
In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities.

That’s where the Children’s System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children.

How Does the​​​ System of Care Work?

We are a group of collaborative problem solvers. We bring together youth and families, child-serving agencies, and service providers to transform, align and improve child-serving systems. 

We work together to create a brighter future for all children. A future that:
  • Builds on the strengths and needs of every child, 
  • Honors families’ voices and choices, 
  • Provides care in our communities, 
  • Aligns systems, and 
  • Responds to the cultural and linguistic needs of all children.

Our Working Intent

A spectrum of accessible, effective, community-based services and supports for youth's health and wellbeing that are organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs in order to help them th​rive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life​.

Ou​​​r Values

  • Youth-guided and family-driven: Youth and families have a direct voice in their own care.
  • Community-based: Services are available in the community; in people’s neighborhoods and homes.
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive: Services and supports are available which match a family’s culture, race, ethnicity and language.

Contact I​nformation

​Our ​​​Me​​etings

​For meeting information please contact howardt@careoregon.org​ to confirm date, location, time and receive an agenda and meeting materials.

Join​​​ us

The System of Care is open to youth and family members, as well as people working in agencies that support youth and families, who would like to share their experiences to help transform child-serving systems.

The Jackson Youth System of Care invites you to join a meeting and use your voice and experience to advocate for children and their families to transform, align and improve child-serving systems in your community.

​What is Wra​​paround?

Wraparound is a family-driven, strengths-based program for young people that connects services, supports and systems, thus creating a complete system of care. Learn about Wraparound here​.​

​Tell us what needs to be improved: We want to hear from you!​​​

Do you know a young person who has experienced a problem or barrier from a child or youth serving system? If so, then you’ve come to the right place. 
  • A barrier is a problem or block to receiving needed services and support. 
  • The barrier submission form allows you to identify and describe your problem or barrier. 
Once you submit this form, System of Care members will work together to resolve barriers, improve systems, and create healthy communities.


Note: Not all barriers will be addressed every month. This process is not intended to address urgent situations or crisis situations. This form does not replace the formal grievance process for providers and system partners. Please do not include Protected Health Information on this form.

​About Josephine County System o​​​f Care 

​​​We Are Here for You 

Families know the challenges and uncertainties of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day. 

  • ​What is the best course of action? 
  • How do I navigate the complex world of child-serving systems? 
  • How do I give my child’s voice a chance to be heard? 

In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities. '

That’s where the Children’s System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children. 

​​How Does the System of Care Work? 

We are a group of collaborative problem solvers. We bring together youth and families, child-serving agencies, and service providers to transform, align and improve child-serving systems. We work together to create a brighter future for all children. A future that builds on the strengths and needs of every child, honors family voice and choice, improves local resources, aligns systems, and responds to the cultural and linguistic needs of all children.  Learn more about System of Care.

Our Vision 

A spectrum of accessible, effective, community-based services and supports for youth’s health and wellbeing that are organized into a coordinated network, builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth, and addresses their cultural and linguistic needs in order to help them thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life. 

Our Val​ues 

We believe services and supports for children, youth, and families should be: 

  • Youth and family guided: Youth and families have a direct voice in their own care. 
  • Community-based: Services are available in the community; in people's neighborhoods and homes. 
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive: Services and supports are available which match a family's culture, race, ethnicity and language. 
  • Coordinated and collaborative: Community agencies and systems work together to support families. 
  • Individualized and strength-based: Youth and families are resilient and resourceful. 
  • Trauma-informed: Services recognize past trauma and do not create new trauma. 

​​​Our Meetings

​Practice Level Workgroup 

Day: Second Wednesday of every month 

Time: 8 to 9 a.m. 

Location: Currently via Zoom 

​​​Advisory/Executive Council 

Day: Third Thursday of every month 

Time: 9 to 10 a.m. 

Location: Currently via Zoom 

​Join Us 

The System of Care is open to youth and family members who would like to share their experiences to help transform child-serving systems. 

To learn more about our SOC or join a meeting, please contact Roxanne Robinson at Roxanne.robinson@allcarehealth.com. 

​​Wraparound

What is Wraparound?​​

Wraparound is a family-driven, strengths-based program for young people that connects services, supports and systems, thus creating a complete system of care. ​

Learn more about Wraparound.

​​​Barrier Submission Form 

Do you know a young person or family who has experienced a problem or barrier while working with child-serving systems? A barrier is a problem or block to receiving needed services and support. If so, then you’ve come to the right place. The barrier submission form allows you to identify and describe your problem or barrier.

Fill out the barrier submission form.

Once you submit a barrier submission form, System of Care members work together to resolve barriers, improve systems and create healthy communities. 

For more information, please contact Heather Robinson at HeatherR@casecadecomp.com.


Executive C​​ouncil meetings 

First Tuesday of each month, 2 to 4 p.m. (day/time will change in 2023) 

  • Facilitator - Arthur Petersen 
  • Virtual RingCentral meetings throughout 2022 

Joint A​dvisory Committee/Practice-Level Workgroup meetings 

Last Monday of each month, 2 to 3 p.m.

  • Facilitator - Heather Robinson 
  • Virtual RingCentral meetings throughout 2022 

​​​Youth, Family, and Friends Subcommittee 

  • Youth Facilitator - Sage Waters 
  • This subcommittee is for local youth and family members to learn more about SOC, to discuss barriers and how to submit, and how to become involved in local SOC governance. 
  • Meetings - First Thursday of each month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Citizens for Safe Schools 

Community​ Engagement Team 

  • Team lead - Valerie Franklin 
  • This team helps build our SOC by brainstorming ideas for activities and events to help increase meaningful youth and family involvement in our local SOC 
  • Meetings - virtual, scheduled on a month to month basis 

SOC Governance Development Team 

  • Team lead - Heather Robinson 
  • This team helps to strengthen our local SOC by creating and updating needed documents, including (but not limited to): barriers submission form, bylaws, new member orientation, marketing materials 
  • Meetings - TBD Website under development 

Please email Heather Robinson​ for more information about System of Care, governance meetings and subcommittees, and for meeting links.

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Vi​sion

Lane County children and youth aged 0-25 and their families have a supportive community and enough resources to be healthy, secure, strong and successful.

Mis​​sion

Our System of Care works together to fix system barriers, identify service gaps and needs, and helps create and support opportunities to improve services and supports in Lane County.

Join​ Us

Family/caregivers, youth, and community partners interested in learning more about or joining the Lane County System of Care (LC SOC) should contact:

Email: Hayley.VanHorn@lanecountyor.gov

Phone: 458-221-5527

Website: www.lanecounty.org/SOC 

Lane County System​ of Care Commit​​tees

The committees are made up of family members/caregivers, youth, mental health providers, community partners.

All meetings are held via Zoom.

  • We are the Voices of Youth (WAVY) Council is for youth ages 13-25 and meets the 1st Tuesday of each month from 5 to 6 p.m.
  • Executive Council meets the 1st Wednesday of each month from noon to 1 p.m.
  • Advisory Committee meets the 2nd Thursday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m.
  • Practice Level Workgroup meets the 3rd Thursday of each month from 3 to 4:30 p.m.​​

Barrier Resolution Process

A barrier is anything that is getting in the way of youth and families getting the services and supports they need. Anyone in the community can submit a systemic barrier they are experiencing specific to youth that are ages 0 - 25 years and multi-system involved. Youth, family/caregivers, and community partners experiencing barriers can submit them to the LC SOC to review. You can find out more about this process here. 

Please note that not all barriers will be addressed every month. This process is not intended to address urgent situations or crisis situations. This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners. Please do not include Protected Health Information on this form


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We Are Here for You

Families know the challenge and uncertainty of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day.

  • ​What is the best course of action? 
  • How do I navigate the complex world of child-serving systems? 
  • How do I give my child's voice a chance to be heard?

In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities. That's where the Children's System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children.

​​Our Mission

We build on System of Care values to transform and improve services and support for children with complex needs and their families.

Our Visio​n

A future where all children are healthy, safe, at home, in school, out of trouble, and thriving.

Our Value​​s

  1. Youth guided
  2. Family driven
  3. Community based
  4. Coordinated
  5. Culturally and linguistically responsive

Orientation Guide

Are you interested in joining the System of Care and want to learn more? This orientation guide​ was prepared to provide helpful infor​mation about our System of Care and how you can help.

Co​ntact Inform​​ation

Email: schwartzconsulting@gmail.com​

Linn County Workgroups

Practice Level​ Workgroup of Linn County
Every Tuesday, 9:30 to 11 a.m.
Location: ODHS Self Sufficiency, 118 SE 2nd Ave, Albany

Benton County Workgroups​

Practice Level Workgroup of Benton County
First and Third Mondays of the month, 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Location: Old Mill Center for Children and Families, 1650 SW 45th Pl, Corvallis

Lincoln County Workgroups

Practice Level Workgroup of Lincoln County
First and third Wednesdays of the month, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: ODHS Self-Sufficiency, 120 NE Avery St, Newport

Advisory Committee

First Friday of the month, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Location: ODHS, 4170 SW Research Way #100, Corvallis​​

Executive Council

First Friday of the month, 1 to 3 p.m.
Location:  ODHS, 4170 SW Research Way #100, Corvallis

For all meetings, email schwartzconsulting@gmail.com to:

  • Confirm meeting location and time.
  • Receive an agenda and meeting materials.​

​Barrier Sub​mission Form

Do you know a young person who has experienced a problem or barrier while working with child-serving systems? A barrier is a problem or block to receivin​g needed services and support. If so, then you've come to the right place. The barrier submission form allows you to identify and describe your problem or barrier.

View the barrier submission form

Once you submit a barrier submission form, System of Care members work together to resolve barriers, improve systems, and create healthy communities.

Please note: Not all barriers will be addressed every month, and this process is not intended to address urgent situations or crisis situations. This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners. Please do not include Protected Health Information on this form.​

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​​​​Making Life Better for Oregon Families

Raising a child with complex needs is challenging. Obstacles face parents at every turn. It takes patience and persistence to navigate the many systems serving youth and families:
  • Schools
  • ODHS Child Welfare
  • Mental health treatment
  • Substance use treatment
  • Intellectual and developmental disabilities
  • Recreation
  • Law enforcement and juvenile justice
  • Early learning and early childhood services
  • Primary care and physical health
  • Dental health
  • Social service programs that address basic needs such as food, housing, and transportation
System of Care aims to help young people thrive at home, in school, with friends, and in their communities. We collaborate to create a brighter future for all youth — a future that builds on the strengths of each child and honors all families' voices and choices, and where systems are aligned and responsive to the cultural and linguistic needs of all.

Our Vision​​

A community where youth and families thrive in their homes and neighborhoods.

Our Missio​​n

Local youth, families, and community partners collaborating to build an aligned, comprehensive network to elevate policies and practices and promote safety, health, and wellness for all youth and families. ​

The Marion-Polk System of Care is grounded in these values: 

  • Inclusive and Accessible: We value timely, equitable access to services and supports wanted and needed by all youth and families with a commitment to ensuring service equity for those impacted by systemic racism. 
  • Culturally Responsive and Community-Based: We value services and supports that honor a person’s preferred language, culture, and identity while promoting home and community-based outcomes. 
  • Youth-Driven and Family-Guided: We value the elevation of youth and family voices and commit to empowering youth to lead alongside community partners.
  • Holistic: We recognize the importance of aligning systems to take a holistic, person-centered approach when supporting youth and families in their community. 
  • Prevention: We value upstream thinking and resource development that sets families up for success. 

C​​​​ontact Information

Email: hpascoe@willamettehealthcouncil.org

Advisory/Practice-Level Committee

Third Thursday of every other month, 3 to 4:30 p.m.

​​​Executive Committee

First Tuesday of each month​​, noon to 1:30 p.m.

For all meetings, email hpascoe@willamettehealthcouncil.org​ to receive a link to the virtual meeting, the agenda, and other materials.​

​Looking for Wrapa​​round Care Coordination?

“Wraparound" means coordinating care for young people involved with multiple systems. The Wraparound process brings together different services, supports, and systems to help youth and families succeed.

How to Report Barriers

A barrier is a problem or obstacle to receiving needed services or support. The Barrier Submission Form exists to help you report a barrier or problem you've identified. Once you submit the form, System of Care members work together to address it.

Examples of barriers being addressed in Oregon include:
  • The need for healthcare providers to match the culture and language of the people they work with
  • The need for more foster homes that understand trauma
  • The need for a community-wide, coordinated suicide prevention plan
  • The need to support our most vulnerable youth and families during the COVID-19 pandemic
You can access the Barrier Submission Form here.

Please note:
  • The barrier reporting process is not intended to address urgent situations.
  • Please do not include identifying information or Protected Health Information, such as names, birthdays, health information, etc.
  • This form does not replace the formal grievance process that exists for providers and system partners​.

The North Coast System of Care is a network of youth, families, community and system partners working together to break barriers to meaningful care in Tillamook, Clatsop and Columbia County. Our Practice Level Work Groups are a place where we track, review and break barriers in the community on the practice level. Any barrier we cannot break on this level, we elevate to our Cross Regional Executive Committee to track, review and break barriers on the regional executive level. Any barrier that we cannot break on this level, we elevate to our State System of Care Standing Committee and Governor appointed Advisory Council to be broken on the state level. 

For more information, please contact Qurynn Hale at haleq@careoregon.org.

Tillamook Practice Level Wor​​k Group 

Second Wednesday of each month, noon to 1:30 p.m.

Clats​op Practice Level Work Group 

Second Thursday of each month, 1 to 2 p.m.

Colum​bia Practice Level Work Group 

Last Wednesday of each month, 2:30 to 4 p.m. 

Cross-Regional Executive Committee 

Meets each seasonal quarter on the second Monday of that month (November, February, May, August) 

If you would like to serve as a member or simply attend any of the North Coast System of Care meetings, please contact Qurynn Hale at haleq@careoregon.org.

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We Are Here For You

Families know the challenge and uncertainty of supporting children with complex needs. They must ask themselves difficult questions every day. 
  • ​What is the best course of action? 
  • How do I navigate the complex world of child-serving systems? 
  • How do I give my child's voice a chance to be heard?
In the process of seeking the best care for their children, families face challenging obstacles, from minor to far-reaching, in their lives and communities.

That's where the Children's System of Care steps in. It is our mission to improve pathways leading to a brighter, healthier future for all children.


Our V​​ision​​

Children, youth, and families are empowered and well-equipped to achieve their fullest potential and realize their dreams through living independent, healthy and productive lives. They are supported by a seamless, sustainable, comprehensive, aligned collaboration across systems and communities, which leads to generations of healthy adults. Services are youth-guided, family-driven, easily accessed, and culturally responsive.

We believe services and supports for children, youth, and families should be:
  • Youth and family guided: Youth and families have a direct voice in their own care.
  • Community-based: Services are available in the community; in people's neighborhoods and homes.
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive: Services and supports are available which match a family's culture, race, ethnicity and language.
  • Coordinated and collaborative: Community agencies and systems work together to support families.
  • Individualized and strength-based: Youth and families are resilient and resourceful.
  • Trauma-informed: Services recognize past trauma and do not create new trauma.

Learn More​

Contact Inform​ation


Practice Level Workgroup​

Fourth Thursday of each month, 10 a.m. to 12 noon
​Location: Virtual meeting

Advisory Committee​

First Tuesday of each month, 4 to 6 p.m.
Location:  Virtual meeting

Executive Council
Third Wednesday of even numbered month, 12 to 2 p.m.
Location: Virtual meeting

For all meetings, please email​ stebbinss@healthshareoregon.org to receive a meeting link, agenda and other materials.

Commitment to Commun​ity Representation and Equity

The Tri-County System of Care will strive to have committee membership that represents:
  • The populations it serves, 
  • The systems that provide services, and 
  • Members who can problem-solve barriers at all levels of operation.
The Tri-County System of Care will have a multi-layered approach to representation:
  1. The three governance committees represent different levels of authority in systems and organizations (e.g., executives, managers, supervisors, front-line staff).
  2. Committee membership will come from diverse systems which serve the target population (e.g., education, developmental disabilities, criminal justices, hospital systems and more).
  3. Committees will hear family and youth voices alongside professional members, with the Advisory Committee specifically seeking 51% family and youth membership.
  4. Committees will prioritize voices of non-dominant cultures, persons and languages by dedicating 14 member seats for culturally specific organizations and representatives.
  5. The Tri-County System of Care will adopt and implement an equity statement by the end of 2020.
The system's Cultural Responsiveness Alliance will help guide the governance structure to ensure that all governance activities, including member recruitment, are responsive to the diverse communities who live and access services in the tri-county region.

Wraparound​

View local Wraparound information for Clackamas, Multnomah, and Washington Counties.​

Barrier Submission Form​

If you or someone you know is experiencing barriers when accessing child/youth and family-serving systems in Clackamas, Multnomah, or Washington counties, please complete our barrier submission form​.​

Examples of current barriers under review include:

  • A need to strengthen trauma-informed care in crisis services, 
  • Improving access to mental health and crisis services for children under age 5, and 
  • The increasing need for providers in our region who match diverse cultural and linguistic groups.
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Families know the challenges of supporting children and youth with complex needs.  That is where System of Care can help!

System of Care (SOC) is a service delivery approach that builds partnerships to create a broad, integrated process for meeting children, youth, and families' multiple needs.  It is a comprehensive spectrum of mental health and other necessary services which are organized into a coordinated network to meet the changing behavioral health needs of children, youth, and their families.  In addition, it builds meaningful partnerships with families and youth to help them navigate the many systems serving this population, and honors their voice and choices to best serve them.

S​​ystem of Care is grounded in these values and principles:

  • Community-based:  Services are available in the community, and include traditional and nontraditional services as well as natural and informal supports
  • Family driven and youth guided:  Youth and families have a direct voice in their care, and are full partners in the planning and delivery of services
  • Culturally and linguistically responsive:  Services and supports are available which match a family's culture, race, ethnicity, and language
  • Coordinated and collaborative:  Community agencies and systems work together to support children and families to help them thrive at home, in school, in the community, and throughout life
  • Individualized and strength-based:  The strengths and needs of youth and families determine the types of individualized services and supports provided
  • Trauma-informed:  Services recognize past trauma and do not create new tra​uma
Our Mission: “The children and youth of Yamhill County will experience meaningful support across all life domains via a collaborative system of care which is family driven, culturally responsive, community integrated, and empowers them to succeed with each life task while feeling hope for their family and their future as evidenced by measurable outcomes."

​Our Vision: “Our vision is that all children and families have the supports they need to feel empowered and hopeful for their future."​

​​​​​System of Care meetings for Yamhill County: 

Please note, the current committee structure is under evaluation, and the following meeting dates and times may change as a result.  Updates will be posted once these changes have occurred.

  • Executive Council: Meets quarterly (March, June, September, December) on the second Thursday of the month from 11  a.m. to noon. 
  • Combined Practice and Advisory Committee:  Meets the third Thursday of each month from 9 to 11 a.m.

The System of Care welcomes youth, family members, and community partners who would like to share their experiences to help transform family-serving systems.  If you or someone you know is interested in participating, please contact:  yamhillsoc@c-who.org​


​Barrier Submission Form:

This form is used to help identify and describe a problem or potential barrier which is preventing youth and families from receiving needed services or support.  Once the form is submitted, System of Care members work together to address it with the goal of improving systems and creating healthier communities.  

It is important to note that the barrier reporting process is not intended to address urgent situations. 

Please do not include any personal information on the form such as names, birthdays, health information, etc.  We will omit any identifying information from state barrier submissions.

https://www.yamhillsoc.org/barriers


Local Barriers

If the local System of Care cannot resolve a barrier youth and families experience, it escalates the barrier to the System of Care Advisory Council. 

Statewide Barrier Submission Form for local Systems of Care.

View local submissions and council responses.

Technical Assistance

Learn about the free technical assistance available to local Systems of Care convened by coordinated care organizations and Tribal partners.