Commissioners' Committee on Cross-Systems
Services for Children and Youth
The Commissioners' Committee on Cross-Systems Services
for Children and Youth is comprised of health, education
and human services agencies, and family and youth partners,
focusing on achieving better outcomes for children, youth
and families by improving access to services and supports;
ensuring quality coordinated services and supports from
a qualified workforce; and collaborating to eliminate service
barriers between systems. The Council provides leadership; coordination; staff support; and facilitates cross-systems communication. The Commissioners
developed a message defining
the priorities of the committee.
The Commissioners' Committee on Cross-Systems Services for
Children and Youth are committed to:
- Engage families and youth directly, listen to their
concerns and
proposals, and involve them in the design of individualized
services
and supports across agencies.
- Work together in a new way: more cooperatively, transparently,
effectively and efficiently.
- Increase the focus on effective
prevention and comprehensive early
childhood services, while also focusing better on children
with intensive
needs requiring services and supports from multiple systems.
- Explore new models for quality and continuity of care,
including
service coordination and dispute resolution.
- Support the individual
goals of other agencies relative to cross-systems
children and youth.
The
Commissioners' Senior Staff and Family and Youth Partners Workgroup meet monthly to facilitate communication between local and regional staff and Commissioners, while the Commissioners' Committee meets quarterly (
Typical Agenda). Additionally, there
are four standing workgroups that fall under the Commissioners' Committee on Cross-Systems Services for Children and Youth.
Please visit the Children's
Plan pages
to learn about an exciting new
collaborative
plan between
child-serving agencies to
effect change in the lives of
children and families in New York State.
