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The challenges facing families and communities are diverse, complex and often changing. Metropolitan Family Services' Public Policy team is currently focused on...
Support Illinois Partners for Human Services!
Human services – the services that Metropolitan Family Services provides, and that help keep families healthy and strong – typically get last priority in Illinois when it comes to state funding. State monies comprise a major chunk of human services support. Due to the State’s ongoing budget crisis, this creates a constant dilemma for human services agencies and those they serve.
To help make human services a priority, Metropolitan encourages you to support Illinois Partners for Human Service. Illinois Partners is a statewide coalition that advocates for a human service infrastructure based on quality services, adequate funding and measureable results.
Illinois Partners believes the following is needed to create a strong human services system in Illinois:
- Quality Services
- High quality services capable of helping Illinois residents improve their lives
- Adequate Funding
- Funding levels that reflect the needs of Illinois residents and the true cost of providing quality service
- Measurable Results
- Human services providers, just like all elements of the State’s public infrastructure, that are accountable for achieving meaningful outcomes
To address these issues Illinois Partners proposed to Governor Pat Quinn that a Human Services Commission be appointed. The Commission is examining the current human services system, which has developed haphazardly over the past three decades in response to court orders, federal directives and advocacy from concerned citizens.
Between 2010 and 2011 the Commission will generate recommendations for the system’s redesign. Metropolitan Family Services is part of the core Commission team that is conducting related research. More details will be available in Metropolitan’s Winter/Spring 2010 newsletter, available online April 2010.
Find out more about Illinois Partners and the need to advocate for a strong human services system at www.illinoispartners.org.
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