What is Care Team Collaborative?

Care Team Collaborative (CTC) is a uniquely designed initiative that carefully balances effective research-based strategies around community engagement, systemic reform and positive youth development with the individual needs of partner counties, agencies, schools/districts, children and their families. CTC uses broad environmental strategies addressing change at individual, classroom and school levels, as well as family and community levels. CTC supports communities as they develop a collaborative infrastructure with capacity to:

  • Share effective practices regarding system alignment and community engagement
  • Provide enhanced opportunities for cross system training
  • Use a common K- 12 multi-agency, web-based data system to monitor and report on educational, social, emotional and behavioral outcomes (individual, school, community).

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Our Mission

The mission of the Care Team Collaborative is to mobilize family and community resources and develop systems that create opportunity to build assets and achieve academic success, which will enable all youth to become healthy, resilient contributors in our community.

Core Values

Collaboration + Assets + Relationships + Engaged Learning = Healthy, Resilient Youth

Commitments

The Care Team Collaborative will:

  • Engage communities in critical conversations to more effectively align systems to support all youth and families.
  • Provide high quality, cross-agency professional development related to Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets and non academic barriers so adults have the skills needed to ensure all students succeed.
  • Promote youth leadership in Care Team schools and communities teaching all sectors the value of youth voice.
  • Support communities as they develop a comprehensive system of care available to all children and families.
  • Guide communities through Care Team implementation, making schools and communities safer, more supportive environments, where all youth grow into healthy resilient adults.

Outcomes

As a result of Care Team Collaborative services, communities will achieve measurable improvements in:

  • Academic achievement (Tier 2, 3 youth and school-wide)
  • School Climate (school-wide)
  • Attendance (Tier 2, 3 youth and school-wide)
  • Out of School Suspension Occurrences (Tier 2, 3 youth and school-wide)
  • Juvenile Adjudication and Recidivism (Tier 2, 3 youth and school-wide)