SYSTEM OF CARE TEAMS
The System of Care consists of five teams that connect to work on strategic goals, priority areas, removing system-level barriers, and making improvements within the community to better serve children, youth, and families in the Marion-Polk region.
SOC Teams Include:
SOC Administration Team:
The Administration Team is made up of Willamette Health Council staff and SOC team Champions.
This team is responsible for coordinating and organizing SOC efforts and ensuring contract deliverables are met by:
- Developing and maintaining the SOC structure and network.
- Monitoring and guiding SOC teams to completion of contractual responsibilities.
- Serving as formal leaders of the SOC and ensuring connection between SOC spaces and teams.
- Coordinating and convening SOC team meetings.
- Monitoring implementation of the strategic plan and ensuring the action plan is carried out through SOC work.
SOC Youth Leadership Team:
The SOC Youth Leadership Team is made up of youth, ages 14-25, who live in Marion County or Polk County and have experience with local child, youth, and family-serving organizations and systems. This team is staffed by the Willamette Health Council and community partners connected to youth leaders.
The SOC Youth Leadership Team is responsible for elevating youth and family priorities and driving SOC work forward by:
- Being the voice for children, youth, and families in the community and advocating for their priorities.
- Applying their lived expertise to inform positive systems-level change/solutions to barriers for multi-system involved children, youth, and families in the region.
- Advising and partnering with the SOC Visioner’s and Barrier Busting Teams to ensure the experience of children, youth, and families is centered in the SOC’s work.
- Consulting and providing guidance on moving the SOC strategic plan, barriers, and general work forward.
- Building and maintaining relationships with children, youth, and family groups and neighborhood councils.
SOC Family Leadership Team:
The SOC Family Leadership Team is made up of parents, caregivers, and family members of youth, who live in Marion County or Polk County and have experience with local child, youth, and family-serving organizations and systems. This team is staffed by the Willamette Health Council and community partners connected to Family Leaders.
The SOC Family Leadership Team is responsible for elevating youth and family priorities and driving SOC work forward by:
- Being the voice for children, youth, and families in the community and advocating for their priorities.
- Applying their lived expertise to inform positive systems-level change/solutions to barriers for multi-system involved children, youth, and families in the region.
- Advising and partnering with the SOC Visioner’s and Barrier Busting Teams to ensure the experience of children, youth, and families is centered in the SOC’s work.
- Consulting and providing guidance on moving the SOC strategic plan, barriers, and general work forward.
- Building and maintaining relationships with children, youth, and family groups and neighborhood councils.
SOC Visioner's Team:
The SOC Visioner’s Team is made up of a network of diverse child, youth, and family-serving organizations and systems committed to blending resources to better serve our local children, youth, and families.
This team is responsible for setting the strategic vision for the SOC and ensuring SOC work is moving forward by:
- Partnering with Youth & Family Leaders to build SOC work and strategic vision around youth and family priorities.
- Developing the strategic plan and partnering with the SOC Administration Team to monitor its ongoing implementation.
- Aligning SOC spaces with one another and other community work.
- Partnering with the SOC Barrier Busting Team to resolve system-level barriers submitted to the SOC by the community.
SOC Barrier Busting Team:
The SOC Barrier Busting Team is made up of a network of diverse child, youth, and family-serving organizations and systems dedicated to removing system-level barriers.
This team is responsible for reviewing system-level barrier submission and, when possible, removing barriers by:
- Developing and maintaining a barrier resolution and tracking process.
- Reviewing new system-level barrier submissions received by the SOC.
- Analyzing system-level barriers.
- Partnering with Youth & Family Leaders, as applicable and as fits their interest.
- Resolving system-level barriers, when possible, and requesting support from the Visioner’s Team and State SOC Committees, when needed.
- Serving as connection point to State SOC Advisory Council, alongside SOC Manager.
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