Needs Assessment for the 2007-2009 Child & Family Oneida County Service Plan

"TAP"
Teen Assessment Project Report and Results

2007 Oneida County TAP Report

2005 Herkimer County TAP Report

2003 Oneida County TAP Report

2003 Oneida County TAP Survey Results Compared to 1999 Results

2003 Oneida County TAP Survey Results Compared to U.S. Results

2001 Herkimer County TAP Report

2001 Herkimer County TAP Survey Results

1999 Oneida County TAP Report

1999 Oneida County TAP Survey Results

"Outlook" Articles

"Oneida County Youth's Concerns, Behaviors and Opinions Surveyed"

"Teen Talkline: A Response to a Youth Summit Idea"

"Herkimer County Awarded State Grant for Integrated Services Plan"

   The goal of human services planning is to help allocate finite resources and organize interdependent activities in such a way as to best achieve social ends with the available means.
   With this goal in mind, the Herkimer-Oneida Counties Comprehensive Planning program has continued its agreements with both Oneida and Herkimer Counties Departments of Social Services and Oneida County Youth Bureau. Staff prepares plans, conducts needs assessments and evaluations, coordinates program developments, and examines the services delivery system. Assistance is provided on a consultant basis. Planning staff supplements Social Services' and Youth Bureaus' staff efforts and works together with them to establish a more focused planning process. Human services planning involves specific service areas, for example, protective and preventive services, foster care and adoption services, health care, employment, mental health and education, as well as specific populations such as youth, elderly, and the homeless.
   The four general functional areas of human services planning activities include: 1) formal plan preparation; 2) needs assessments, research projects and evaluations; 3) program planning, and 4) organizational analysis. 

ASSISTANCE TO COUNTY DEPARTMENTS OF SOCIAL SERVICES

• development of Consolidated Service Plans
• program development and evaluation
• development of school/ human services partnership programs
• human services needs assessment
• development of:
  • PINS Plan
  • Employment Plan
  • TANF Plan

OTHER PROGRAM AREAS

• assistance to Herkimer County DWI and Oneida County Youth Bureau
• alternatives to incarceration programs
• law enforcement collaboration

Chief Planner:
Fred Cook

Principal Planner:
Chip Bassett

Principal Planner:
Dale Miller