The Cuyahoga County model is a navigation process designed to direct parents with children, prenatal through graduation, to appropriate services. It directs parents to a full scale of quality services for their children. It focuses on developing a coordinated and cooperative public system infrastructure that promotes cross system collaboration—at the policy, programmatic, and case levels.
Service Coordination Team (SCT) exists to help multi-need/multi-system children and their families access appropriate community services and to assure the effective coordination and delivery of services among systems for their best possible health and safety. This team works within the public systems to ensure families are not experiencing system barriers. The Service Coordination Team works with wrap teams to assist when children are in crisis and in need of a short term placement. These system liaisons are able to commit dollars on behalf of the systems they represent, and help monitor the child’s length of stay. This subcommittee meets monthly.
Service Coordination Team Members
Eugenia Cash
Cleveland Metropolitan School District
Maura Coyne Lipinski
PEP Connections (Mental Health Gatekeeper)
Maureen Dee
Catholic Charities Health and Human Services (Alcohol & Drug Gatekeeper)
Mary Denihan
Child Support Enforcement Agency
Abbie Klein
Starting Point
Lori Mago
Help Me Grow
Kerry McAllester
Cuyahoga County Board of
Developmental Disabilities |
Bonita McKay
Starting Point
Arlyce Nichols
Cuyahoga County Department of Children and Family Services
Karen Ols
Cuyahoga Tapestry System of Care
Linda Torbert
Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County
Van Ward
Cuyahoga Court
Adrienne Waugh
Cuyahoga County Employment and Family Services |
For more information please contact Denise Pietrzak at (216) 443-6115.