Mobilizing & Planning

Fostering a framework for collaborations that lead to improvements in human services availability and delivery.

Children’s Coordinating Council: Engage public school and human service personnel in dialogue and action to improve outcomes for at-risk children and their families.
Continuum of Care on Homelessness: Engage more than 50 representatives from human service organizations, local government, schools, and faith community to respond to homelessness and poverty.
Drug and Alcoholism Council: Facilitate 25-member community council to support an array of services to respond to substance abuse.
Human Service Summit: Annually, convene providers, advocates, and policymakers to consider collective actions to build a healthy community.
Trauma Informed Care Task Force: Convene human service organizations and County departments for collective learning and support to build a trauma-informed community.

Measurable improvements in the health and human service system.

Reduce Poverty and Create Opportunity: Work in partnership with Johnson County Government to implement action strategies focused on employment, early learning, and the human service safety net.
- Employment Planning Project: An effort to expand household-sustaining jobs to low-income Johnson County residents.
- Transitional Aged Youth (TAY) Planning Project: Develop and support the implementation of a plan that coordinates best practices, protocols, and evaluation measures to ensure responsive and adequate delivery of services and supports for TAY.
Johnson County Health Equity Network (Housing Study/Housing Task Force): Build a network of health equity advocates to mitigate health inequity and improve health outcomes through collaboration.
Racial and Equity Inclusion: The Racial Equity and Inclusion (REI) Committee determines how UCS will engage in the work of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) Title II Grant: UCS is the onsite facilitator for Johnson County Department of Corrections effort to implement the Burns Institute’s Intensive Site Engagement Model (ISE) within the juvenile justice system.