| Financial
benefits |
- more efficient economically in
a time of restraint
- for sponsorship, fund-raising
- pooling resources because of
funding difficulties
- avoiding duplication &
wasting precious resources
- funding requirements often
include building ties to community, obtaining community support,
etc.
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| Sharing
resources & expertise |
- utilizing people's strengths
- offsetting the workload when it
is too much for one agency
- sharing materials and access to
libraries
- input from other communities
(aboriginal)
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| Referrals,
access to families, and finding supports for clients |
- greater awareness of other
agencies' services and programs
- clients don't always connect
with agencies that can help them
- provides a way for all partners
to reach more families
- certain agencies have access to
"hard to reach" families
- some agencies have more time,
staff, and resources to recruit hard to reach families
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| An
integrated approach to better client needs |
- sharing information, new serve
clients' needs ideas to create better services
- inter-disciplinary case
conferencing to identify and address
- providing clients with more
consistent information and services
- streamlining services for
clients ("one stop" services)
- avoiding duplication of
services
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