HSCB Clare County

The Community Collaborative shall promote the welfare of the community through the joint planning, collaboration, and promotion of human services, with an emphasis on prevention. Successfully working together for the last twenty years the activities of the Community Collaborative are designed to promote the following goals:

- To make existing human services more effective through interagency supp

ort and collaboration.
- To allow for the expansion of existing human service projects which have demonstrated effectiveness.
- To establish additional human service programs based on: needs assessments, thorough review and analysis of programming alternatives, pooling of resources and a community systems approach to programming.
- To review on a periodic basis human service programs to evaluate their effectiveness and efficiency.
-To facilitate change in the contributing environmental risk factors and funding levels by engaging relevant policy makers, organizations, and the community.
-To provide a basis for safeguarding existing programs in difficult times.