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Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency 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, participants are sometimes enrolled in Youth Workforce, Head Start, or Weatherization programs. Case consultation with external agencies and internal case consultation to meet the family development needs of participants can occur. 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. ROMA Goal 2, 4 and 6 DHHS Excels -Goals 1 and 3 Low income People Become More Self- Sufficient; Partnerships Manage resources that provide an elevated level of effective among supporters and providers of services to low- income and efficient delivery of services and programs to North people are achieved; Low - income people, especially vulnerable Carolinians; Offer outreach and services to individuals and populations, achieve their potential by strengthening family and families identified as being at risk of compromised health and oth support systems s afety. 6. Provide a description of how your agency will support innovative community and neighborhood - based initiatives related to the purposes of the Community Services Block Grant (fatherhood initiatives and other initiatives with the goal of strengthening families and encouraging effective parenting). In 2011 -2012 SRCAA in conjunction with the City of Salisbury and other entities submitted a grant for the Choice Neighborhoods initiative to HUD. In 2012 SRCAA participated in the Promise Neighborhoods grant application with Livingstone College, the City of Salisbury, the school district and the community college. The goals for these grants has been to collaborate and address issues for families that effect their ability to be strong and to address some of the most critical needs they face around housing, transportation and education. While to date, neither of these grants was funded, SRCAA continues to participate in community -wide coalition - building and resource development to meet the needs of individuals and families and reduce barriers to family and community growth. At the beginning of the school year, parents sign a partnership agreement that they will be fully involved with their children, and set goals for their family. This gives low- income families the capability to make decisions, initiate programs, and obtain resources to encourage stronger families in our area. Parent trainings are also offered in areas such as: Parenting skills, child and health development, preparations of food, and child abuse and neglect. By offering these services, parents' skills are strengthened and parents' understand the responsibility they have to their children. SRCAA continues to provide support to families as they learn new skills. Internally, the merging of departments included an intentional effort to train Family Development Specialists in Head Start in the Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework. The ultimate goal of the framework is to ensure families understand what school readiness is. During the upcoming months and years, FDS will train families in core competencies of parenting and school readiness. SRCAA will also be in conversation with the National Fatherhood Initiative (NFI) to increase father - focus. Family Services (CSBG) will partner with Head Start to improve the way fathers are treated as integral family members in goal the goal attainment process. Fiscal Year 2013 -14 Community Services Block Grant Application Page 10 of 42 Attachment number 1 F -6 Page 74