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• In the Definition Portion of the Children Services Network Guide there is no definition given to "Grant Review and Program Committee." Where does the public find- out more about this committee? o What is the purpose of preparing a Children Services Network Guide if we are going to abrogate its purpose? 1. Chapter III Needs Assessment, Priorities & Planning. Needs Assessment. Lines 7 through 9, "The needs assessment shall include a comprehensive county -wide evaluation of children's services to produce a qualitative summary of existing programs services, activities, asset mapping and identification of unmet and undermet needs. Why haven't we done this? Do we have to go outside our local community to hire Hershberg-Salter Associates to do an evaluation of our unmet or undermet needs? 1. Line 19 through 21, Targeted surveys may be requested periodically if they are topic -specific and needed to verify a service priority for Indian River County children. The request should be written and presented to the CSNetwork. It appears to me that we prepared a "Targeted Survey" (see enclosed Needs Assessment Phone Survey) before we produced a comprehensive county -wide evaluation of existing children services. Our eagerness to obtaine, dole out, and spend the $300,000 dollars so generously place on the table by the CSNetwork has caused some of our more liberal Board of County Commissioners to leap headlong into this profuse morass of unfunded/underfunded public wellfare. I think the Board of County Commissioners should listen to Mrs. Ginn and follow her suggestion as outlined in her Indian River County Memorandum, dated June 4, 1998. Sincerely yours, Glenn W. Legwen ATTACHMENT A 1 UfMODU TION 2 3 GENERAL OVERVIEW 4 5 The Children's Services Network Guide is to be used as the primary document that contains the 6 standards, policies, procedures creating a unified system of planning and delivery within which 7 children's needs can be identified, targeted, addressed and evaluated by the Children's Services 8 Network (CSNetwork). With respect to the Guide, The Board of County Commissioners (BCC) 9 will have the approval authority on its adoption and revisions. The CSNerwork will maintain the 10 Guide and act as an advisory board to the BCC. 11 12 The CSNetwork will also receive and review proposals for allocation of funds for targeted 13 children's services and make recommendations regarding funding to the BCC. County staff will be 14 made av40able at the direction of the county administrator. Although the CSNetwork Guide will 15 be the ptihtaty source for policy and procedural guidance, the Indian River County Comprehensive 16 Plan, as well as the Comprehensive Plans of municipalities in the County, will be used where they 17 contain goals, policies, and objectives relating to children's services. 18 19 The CSNetwork Guide serves as a reference for the CSNetwork throughout the continuing 20 planning process. The main principles contained in the Guide are to: 21 22 1. Recommend to provide and maintain services for children- as the CSNetwork 23 determines are needed for the general well-being of the children in the county. 24 25 2. Collect information and statistical data and conduct research that will be helpful to the 26 CSNetwork and the county in deciding the needs of children in the county. 27 28 3. Consult, collaborate, and coordinate with other agencies dedicated to the well-being of 29 children to end duplication of services . 30 31 4. Recommend the allocation of funds for programs that provided services for the benefit 32 of children in the county. 33 34 5. Recommend standards for measurable outcomes within the request for proposal and 35 monitor the agencies for actual performance on agreed upon standards. 36 JULY 79 1998 -33- •