Community Human Services Partnership Enhancements

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2022

For more than 20 years, Leon County and City of Tallahassee have worked collaboratively through the nationally recognized Community Human Services Partnership (“CHSP”) to provide a “one-stop” process for human services grant funding to local human service agencies in our community. In prior years, the CHSP also included participation from the United Way of the Big Bend; however, in 2016 the United Way withdrew from the CHSP and established its own separate process for allocating funding to local human service agencies. As a result, in 2018, Leon County and the City of Tallahassee entered into a new agreement through which both agencies restated their mutual commitment to the CHSP and substantially reformed and enhanced the process to provide greater funding stability for the human services agencies addressing citizens’ most critical needs in the community. The CHSP continues to be a national best practice in recognition of its streamlined funding application process for agencies, its collection and sharing of common data by the funding agencies to address human services needs countywide, and for facilitating the collaboration and optimization of local government human services funding across political jurisdictions.