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Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. In Cabarrus County with for profit entities to help meet the needs of participants like — County Cleaners, Dollar General, O'Reilly's Auto Parts, Homewood Suites (for reduced hotel nights for homeless families) and Shaw University for space usage and student referrals for higher education. These are real examples of how public- private nonprofit partnerships can address and reduce barriers to poverty for community residents. It is SRCAA's goal to explore other similar options in Rowan County. In 2013 relationships established in Rowan with service providers and the local DSS office at the Director's level continued to flourish, The group began to meet regularly and had topic focused meeting that addressed issues of poverty, unemployment, housing and the like. The Director of Youth and Family Services meets monthly with the Director of DSS and other prominent, child welfare, domestic violence, health care clinic directors find creative solutions for Rowan County. One of the most recent topics for discussion was how to get leaders and workers trained in "Bridges Out Of Poverty ", Ruby Payne's model for understanding families in poverty and strategies to help them overcome barriers to success. Finally, SRCAA intends to identify and partner with already established Latino organizations in our two service counties and other non - profit and public entities that have Hispanic families as their consumers. Forums, advertisement, word -cf- mouth, Heritage and Community events sponsored by SRCAA and other organizations will be targeted to increase and improve those partnerships with the goal of enrolling more Latino families. The addition of the multicultural consultant for PY 2014- 2015 added a dimension of active and increased recruitment of the Hispanic families in our program, To date she has recruited 22 of the fifty families and they were placed on the program waiting list. 5. Describe how your agency will establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low- income individuals, to avoid the duplication of such services and to fill identified gaps in services, through the provision of information, referrals, case management and follow -up consultations. See number r above). Collaboration with our local Departments of Human Services, Divisions of Workforce Solutions, Rowan Helping Ministries, Cooperative Christian Ministries, Goodwill Industries, the Salvation Army, and various faith -based and nonprofit organizations, enables SRCAA to serve, refer and minimize the duplication of services. By sitting on committees such as Workforce Solutions Center monthly, staff are keenly aware of services provided by other agencies and organizations. An example of preventing the duplication of services is the utilization of Cooperative Extensions and Health Departments to provide food, nutrition and health services and training and Goodwill Industries to provide resume preparation, interviewing techniques and certification training - instead of doing it ourselves, By continuing to collaborate with other human service agencies this helps to close any service gaps in SRCAA areas. SRCAA is closing service gaps internally as well. Since participation in all programs is determined by income eligibility, staffs are now becoming intentional about enrolling CSBG participants in WIA youth anchor adult services and ensuring that their young are enrolled in Head Start. Case consultation with external agencies and internal case managers occurs to meet the family development needs of participants. In real time, there can effectively be several persons assigned to one family. By holding case conferencing, families can be less overwhelmed by competing goals and requirements by multiple organizations. Fiscal Year 2015 -16 Community Services Block Grant Application Attachment number 1 Page 10 of 44 F -13 Page 183