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1999-2000 Healthy Communities Plan Summary
The Board of Directors
Steering Committee
Multi-Cultural Advisory Board
Government Relations Committee
Financial Resource Development Committee
Evaluation Committee
Committees of the Steering Committee

• Quality of Life Committee
• Tier I Committee
• Neighborhood Projects Committee
• Broward Information Network Committee
• Community Resource Inventory Committee

• Council History and System
• Organizational Chart
• The Broward Benchmarks, 2^nd Edition

• "Substance Abuse Service Delivery System – Best Practices" 1999
• "Report on the 1998 Preliminary Priorities" June 1998
• "The Cultural Ground of Broward: Benchmarks and Priorities" June 1998
• "Broward Information Network Functional Design Study" May 1998
• "Data Industries South Florida Network Implementation Study" September 1997
• "Community Assessment Methodology and Action Plan for 1997-98" 1997
• "Model Characteristics for Health, Education and Human Service Delivery" 1997
• "Infant Mortality and Teen Pregnancy in Broward County" 1996
• "A Second Look at Cultural Diversity in Broward" 1995
• "Middle School Age Delinquency in Broward County" 1995

The Coordinating Council of Broward’s Board of Directors will provide policy leadership and oversight to the 1999-2000 Healthy Communities Initiatives plan and operations.

This Healthy Communities Plan will allow The Coordinating Council of Broward to continue and expand the work done since 1995, providing community leadership for a higher quality of life in Broward County, Florida using the 1999-2000 planning products, including The Broward Benchmarks, Countywide Resource Inventory, Community Assessment Information Clearinghouse, Targeted Assessment Studies and member agency operational support. These activities are designed to produce increases in Broward’s quality of life which can be targeted, measured and sustained. Increased cost/effectiveness and reduction of gapping and duplication in Health, Human Services, Education and related programs will continue to be assured through interagency working groups, formal agreements and contracts, joint planning and operations and multiple resource partnerships.

The Broward Information Network (BIN) will incorporate all available planning and operational information from CCB and other sources when on-line operations in fiscal year 2000 begin. This unique "virtual database" will support improved client services, strategic planning, grant making and related collaborative activities.

Member agency dues and contracts will be combined with the State of Florida "Healthy Communities Initiatives" funding and with resources from the numerous agencies and public private partnerships supporting the 1999-2000 community plan, for optimum operational outcomes. The Evaluation Committee of The Council will provide ongoing objective review of systemwide progress. Each functional committee will provide focus and expertise to accomplish targeted 1999-2000 tasks as assigned.

The Council invites all interested parties to participate in the 1999-2000 structures and activities described in this plan.

• The Council is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for all Broward citizens.
• The Board of Directors is composed of the Chief Executive Officers of the major funders of health, education and human services in Broward County along with private sector members.
• The President and CEO reports to The Board, and provides administrative support for all Council policies and directives.
• The Board of Directors meets monthly, and otherwise as necessary, to provide policy direction to the various committees, act on recommendations and requests from the community and otherwise guide the "Healthy Communities Initiative".
• The Council has implemented a quality of life measurement process, and in 1999-2000 is creating systems to assure measurable, sustainable increases in Broward’s quality of life. The Quality of Life Indicators have been integrated into a system-wide community assessment methodology, which includes asset mapping, targeted populations/system studies, strategic planning and improved service delivery.
• The Council will implement the Broward Information Network (BIN), a unique integrated interagency database, in 1999-2000.
• The Council, with broad community input, has identified key critical issues requiring multi-year, multi-agency community action. The Council’s member organizations will provide leadership to address these critical issues in concert with countywide stakeholder groups.

The Steering Committee provides systematic plans, recommendations and structures to create, review and sustain Council purposes and activities leading to a higher quality of life in Broward County.

• The Council names all Steering Committee member representatives. They include key agency staff members and other volunteers from the Health, Education and Human Services community. The Steering Committee annually develops and manages select committees to provide collaborative interagency action for The Coordinating Council of Broward’s Work Program.
• In 1999-2000 the Steering Committee will continue to develop, refine and recommend systems and structures, interagency collaboration and other program support methodologies.
• The Steering Committee meets on a monthly basis to review the work of all of its committees and functions, and provides information and recommendations to The Council at each Council meeting.

The Multi-Cultural Advisory Board gives The Coordinating Council multi-cultural information and perspectives, helping to influence cultural consciousness and diversity in public policy, to improve the quality of life Broward County.

• The Chair of the Multi-Cultural Advisory Board is a full Council member.
• The members of the Multi-Cultural Advisory Board are representatives of the diverse multi-cultural community within Broward County.
• The Multi-Cultural Advisory Board meets monthly and provides culturally proficient technical assistance, advice and recommendations to embed cultural sensitivity into the development of Council quality of life improvement systems in Broward County.

The Government Relations Committee provides The Coordinating Council recommendations on key legislative initiatives and supports enactment of the annual CCB Legislative Initiatives during the annual Legislative session.

The Government Relations Committee will forward its Legislative Initiatives for the 2000 Legislative Session to the Board of Directors in the fall of 1999. As in previous years, the Committee will present the approved Initiatives to the Broward Legislative Delegation at its "Human Service" Public Hearings in December of 1999 and help manage the legislative process throughout the March/April 2000 Session. All Health, Human Services, Education and related issues are eligible for consideration.

• All CCB member agencies will forward their key legislative issues to the Government Relations Committee, who will recommend the Legislative Initiatives to The Council.
• All member agencies will task their Legislative liaisons and Lobbyists to pursue the approved the key Legislative Initiatives during the session, in coordination with The CCB Legislative liaison.
• The results of The CCB Legislative Initiatives and Governor’s action will be reported at the June or July 2000 Council meetings.

Create a Financial Resource Development Committee, enlisting participation from the private sector, and an inter-agency grants support initiative, for both public and foundation grants.

• The Committee will support The CCB plan and Work Program through increased private sector participation.
• The Committee will also organize an inter-agency Grants Support Initiative to secure additional Federal, State, and Foundation grants, under The Coordinating Council’s program priorities.
• The Committee will also seek wider opportunities for communitywide resource development supporting The CCB.

The Evaluation Committee will initiate the implementation of a formalized evaluation process to measure the effectiveness of the delivery system in addressing the critical needs and provide recommendations and information to The Council supporting the Annual Community Assessment.

• The Committee is responsible for tracking of actions taken by stakeholder groups in addressing the priorities and critical issues to determine positive or negative system impact.
• The Committee will initiate a formalized process to measure system change to assist The CCB and Tier I project stakeholders in evaluating system performance.
• The Committee will provide opportunity for more system accountability to the public and user groups.
• The Committee will provide support for improved evaluation of the annual benchmarking and priority setting process.

The Quality of Life Committee will continue to establish and update benchmarks and goals to measure and increase the quality of life within Broward County on an annual basis. These will be recommended for use in establishing service and funding priorities. The Committee will also provide special studies and targeted assessments based on these benchmarks.

The Tier I Committee will create an appropriate infrastructure and interagency partnerships to assure coordinated implementation of the Tier I Coordinating Council Priorities. This multi-year collaborative project is designed to provide measurable, sustainable increases in the quality of life for citizens in Broward County.

• In late 1998, The CCB chose the four Tier I Priorities and designated the Convenor of Stakeholders for each priority, as listed below.

The Neighborhood Projects Committee will continue to support the three neighborhood projects in the North, Central and South areas of Broward County. The Committee will work to remove barriers and support collaboration to assure more effective and efficient delivery of services at the neighborhood level. It will develop model strategies for expansion of enhanced services beyond the three targeted neighborhoods in the future. The Neighborhood Projects will be a testing ground for the tools developed by The Coordinating Council, including the Model Service Delivery Characteristics, the Community Assessment Plan and Methodology, the Broward Information Network and the Accelerating Communities Transformation "Outcomes Toolkit".

• The Committee will focus Council member leadership and resources, in collaboration with neighborhood organizations, in resolving problems, addressing identified barriers and creating new interagency service delivery partnerships.
• The Committee will provide a greater sense of neighborhood empowerment through direct input into local system decisions and direct access to service providers.
• The Committee will assist The Council in assuring that resources being expended in selected neighborhoods will be better coordinated and existing gaps will be addressed on a higher priority basis.
• The Committee will seek additional neighborhood resources through grants and targeted agency programming.

The Broward Information Network (BIN) Committee will continue the design and implementation of a health, education and human service information network for all Broward organizations. The Committee will provide support during FY00 in linking the first eight agencies to the Network. The first eight agencies to be on-line by October 30, 1999 are; Broward County Human Services, Broward Workforce Development Board, Memorial Healthcare System, School Board of Broward County, Broward Community College, and the Florida Departments of Children & Families, Juvenile Justice and Labor and Employment Security.

• The Broward Information Network will provide consumer access to availability of a full array of services from any point of contact within the system.
• It will provide for shared client data to facilitate more cost-effective servicing of clients across agency-program lines.
• The Broward Information Network will create a more "seamless" system reducing duplication of information and paperwork.
• The Broward Information Network will provide enhanced information and referral capability that will support total community needs.
• It will create increased standardization of data and information countywide.

STATUS OF COUNCIL ACTIVITIES, BEGINNING FY00

THE BROWARD BENCHMARKS – This publication provides both statistical (quantitative) and community survey (qualitative) information to the public and all involved agencies in Broward County, as a "report card" on several hundred indices of Broward’s Quality of Life, with specific goals for future years. It is updated each year, from ongoing community surveys and system statistics, to drive further improvements in our quality of life initiatives.

THE COUNTYWIDE RESOURCE INVENTORY – This unprecedented project, creating a database of comprehensive information on who has what resources and how they are using them is developed from detailed surveys of over 400 governmental, non-profit and private organizations in Broward County. It will allow the Broward community for the first time to precisely gauge gaps, duplications and other critical information, to achieve optimum service levels.

TARGETED COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT STUDIES – Partnerships with other organizations in Broward produce special reports on critical needs/concerns, yielding new and better ways of doing business. Studies in process or complete to date include: Infant Mortality and Teen Pregnancy, Middle School Age Delinquency, Children, Substance Abuse/Behavioral Health, Multi-cultural communities, Senior Citizens and the Disabled.

NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECTS – Planning and operations in three at-risk neighborhoods are ongoing, in coordination with state and local agencies throughout Broward, creating model ways to empower local communities, bring improved services to citizens and create new local partnerships.

WELFARE REFORM IMPACT ANALYSIS – The CCB, in conjunction with the Broward Workforce Development Board and Florida Atlantic University, is finalizing an analysis of how Welfare Reform is working in Broward County, to both inform the system and create "best practices" in local programs.

LONG-TERM QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENT STRATEGIES – The CCB has selected four "Tier I" Community Priorities and is leveraging Healthy Communities Initiatives and local funds to create measurable, sustainable improvements in our Quality of Life. These include: (1) Jobs, Better Pay and Benefits, (2) Healthcare Access, (3) Mobility /Transportation Access and (4) Education.

THE BROWARD INFORMATION NETWORK – This "virtual database", designed to integrate the computer systems of hundreds of agencies throughout Broward County, is partially funded through a separate state allocation to the Broward County Board of County Commissioners. Healthy Communities Initiative funds are used to support CCB planning, oversight and management. This network will allow, at very low overall cost, all participating agencies to operate as if they were on the same large computer system. Opportunities for improved client service, better planning and collaborative resource use will continue to expand.

The CCB has provided technical assistance and information to other Florida counties seeking to establish Quality of Life systems. We will continue to support all requests, creating a high return on investment.