Cuyahoga County Title

Service Coordination

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.  

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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

Kevin Berg 
Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County 

Kristen Blaze 
Department of Justice Affairs

Maureen Dee
Catholic Charities Health and Human Services (Alcohol & Drug Gatekeeper)

Mary Denihan
Child Support Enforcement Agency

Abbie Klein
Starting Point

Sue McHugh
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

Myrtle Mitchell
Help Me Grow

Mike Scherer 
Alcohol, Drug Addiction & Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County 

Linda Torbert
PEP Connections (Mental Health Gatekeeper)

Demitra Turner
Cleveland Metropolitan School District

Van Ward
Cuyahoga Court

For more information please contact Denise Pietrzak at (216) 443-6115.

© CUYAHOGA COUNTY
HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
FAMILY & CHILDREN FIRST COUNCIL
1801 St. Clair Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44114
(216) 698-2875 (216) 698-2870 (fax)
infofcfc@cuyahogacounty.us