Geauga Family First Council

Geauga Family First Council is a collaborative, interagency organization designed to meet the diverse needs of families living within Geauga County through a unified system of services. Our Council is strongly committed to removing barriers for multi-need children through prevention, early intervention and an inter-system provision of services which support the entire family. Our Council provides the framework for county agencies to coordinate efforts and to take a pro-active approach to sharing resources and information and discussing areas of concern that impact both families and services. Council members believe that pooling resources is the best way to create systems changes. The Council, which is composed of local agencies working together on behalf of Geauga's families, currently funds a broad spectrum of community-based services. All the programs that Council has helped develop and now funds are community solutions to identified service gaps that existed in Geauga County. One of the major programs/services Council provides in the county is Service Coordination. In Geauga, Service Coordination is defined as a coordinated approach to serving kids/families whose needs cross agency boundaries & our way of planning and organizing services for these families. The services/programs Council funds are based on the Council philosophy that kids being served through Council-funded programs and individualized services are the 'community's kids,' not just the responsibility of one system.