Progress Report: Transforming California Counties' Delivery of Mental Health Services
Third Sector is supporting a coalition of California counties seeking to improve delivery of mental health services across the state in the Multi-County Full Service Partnership Innovation Project.
Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned: Empowering Families: Partnering with Communities to Deliver Outcomes
Third Sector partnered with six state and local government agencies for The Empowering Families Initiative for government agencies to align Two-Generational social services to foster the wellbeing of whole families from generation to generation.
Lessons Learned: Transitioning Individuals in Full Service Mental Health Programs to Lower Levels of Care
As part of the Multi-County Full Service Partnership Innovation Project, Third Sector interviewed mental health experts across the country to identify indicators and the most promising practices for stepping individuals down to less intensive levels of care.

Project Brief: Designing Programs for Young Parents & Families
The Southeastern Cohort on Young Parents and Families works to increase alignment between programs and public funding streams (including TANF, WIOA, SNAP, Head Start) promoting collaboration between government agencies, nonprofit partners, and young parent families.
Project Brief: Pay For Success in Higher Education National Cohort
Colorado and Ohio have begun leveraging Pay for Success as a way to fund wraparound student support services that improve matriculation, persistence, and graduation outcomes for underserved students.
Government Resources
Federal Government
- Building an Equitable Government: The What, the Why, and the How
- How to Design An Outcomes Focused Federal Government
- Solutions for Government in the Time of Covid
Local/State Government
- Innovative Approaches to Deploying Federal Childcare Relief Funding
- Supporting States in Planning and Deploying American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Funds
- Colorado Utilizes American Rescue Plan Funding to Re-Engage Low-income Students Impacted by COVID
- What the Department of Labor’s New Pay-for-Performance Guidance Means for State and Local Workforce Boards

Webinars
View all webinars associated with the following projects:




- The Challenge of Staying Connected: Diversity Plans and Remote Interviews That Bridge the Divide
- From Prototyping to Piloting - Lessons on Prototyping: Quicker ways to try out big challenges (Password for recording: BCDGLC-21)
- Facilitation for Design (infographic)
Southeastern Cohort on Young Parents and Families
- Insights for Community Action Agencies: Designing Better Programs to Support Young Parent Families – Spotlight on South Carolina
- Improving Economic Stability for Young Parents – Spotlight on Kentucky & Massachusetts
- Improving Transition Strategies for Young Parents Aging Out of Foster Care - Spotlight on Georgia
- Strategies to Address the Benefits Cliff
- Strategies to Promote Two-Generational Outcomes
PFS in Higher Education National Cohort
- PFS in Higher Education National Cohort Final Presentations
- Importance of PFS Pilots in Order to Launch PFS Projects
- Evidence-Based Services & Procurement Implications
- Funding in PFS Projects
- Pay for Success “101”
- Exploring PFS with Student Support Services
- Request for Information: College Access and Success Providers
- Request for Information: States and Systems of Higher Ed
Focus Areas
Videos
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