Please visit the first dedicated site to Service Coordination in Ohio:

http://escoreohio.org

or click here


EScore (Electronic Service Coordination, Outcomes, Research and Evaluation) is a statewide initiative that will introduce a web-based technology platform that will provide key stakeholders at local, regional, and state levels the ability to gain access to data related to census tracking, service coordination activities, and outcomes associated with those efforts.

Current plans include this platform being introduced, maintained, and supported for about one-half of the state (40 counties) by the end of the 2008-2009 biennium. In the subsequent 2010-2011 biennium, the plan is to expand full coverage to the remaining 48 Ohio counties.  At the same time, a more modest attempt to create a census tool for all 88 counties to begin to collect demographic information on those youth and families who are benefiting from service coordination will be undertaken.

The platform will provide counties with the ability to view and download their own site-specific data in near real time, thus not having to wait for OSU or any other state entity to provide information about their data gathering activities. The resulting information will position county professionals to manipulate their own databases in order to generate county-specific information about service coordination, as well as provide them with the ability to run basic reports (e.g., census information related to who was served by a given county’s service coordination efforts) at the touch of a button. Further, administrative personnel at the state and local level will have access to these databases in order to monitor data-gathering efforts and to provide comparisons of standardized information across counties regarding the Service Coordination process.

In addition to developing, testing, monitoring, and upgrading the Internet platform, the OSU Center for Family Research will provide technical assistance and training to county and state workers on navigation and ongoing use of the website, as well as entering, coordinating, downloading, manipulating and interpreting the data that are collected at the county level.The connection to OFCF Service Coordination pertains to House Bill 66, legislation that requires agencies, organizations and families in Ohio’s counties to work together to design an improved procedure for responding to the strengths and concerns of multiple need children and their families. 

Click here to download the Service Coordination Mechanism Guidance document (July 2005, Amended Substitute House Bill 66)