Leveraging Partnerships in West Chicago

SS/HS initiatives are funded to help establish a comprehensive system of services for youth and their families. Yet it is not possible for an initiative to provide funding to all the local agencies and organizations whose participation is necessary to create such a system. In these excerpts from a longer conversation, Marjory Lewe-Brady, Project Director for WeGo Together for Kids, an SS/HS initiative in West Chicago, Illinois, speaks to the challenge of creating a partnership that includes organizations that receive funding from the grant as well as others that do not. She also describes how several WeGo Together partners established collaborations above and beyond those proposed in their grant application.

Can partners who do not receive any funding from the grant benefit from an SS/HS initiative?

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