Community Human Service Partnership (CHSP)

Notice of the 2022-2023/2023-2024

CHSP CITIZENS REVIEW TEAM

Leon County and the City of Tallahassee will be conducting Community Human Service Partnership (CHSP) grant reviews for the 2022/2023 - 2023/2024 funding cycle. The grant review process will be performed by eleven designated Citizen Review Teams

The Citizens Review Team Schedule will be uploaded in the next few weeks.

Citizens Review Teams Schedule

For more information, contact Leon County office of Human Services and Community Partnerships at 850-606-1900.

CHSP Presentations and Deliberations are as follows:

May 3, 2022 Team One: Children's Services

(Presentations)

Children's Services Video

May 10, 2022 Team One: Children's Services

(Deliberations)

Children's Services Video

May 4, 2022 Team Two: Community Support

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Community Support Video

May 11, 2022 Team Three: Persons with Disabilities

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Persons with Disabilities Video

May 12, 2022 Team Four: Basic Needs & Emergency Services

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Basic Needs & Emergency Services Video

May 18, 2022 Team Five: Family Support Services

(Presentations )

Family Support Services Video - Part I
Family Support Services Video - Part II

May 25, 2022 Team Five: Family Support Services

(Deliberations )

Family Support Services Video

May 17, 2022 Team Six: Health Services

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Health Services Video

May 19, 2022 Team Seven: Senior Services

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Senior Services Video

May 24, 2022 Team Eight: Youth Recreation, Character Building and Mentorship

(Presentations)

Youth Recreation, Character Building and Mentorship Video

May 31, 2022 Team Eight: Youth Recreation, Character Building and Mentorship

(Deliberations)

Youth Recreation, Character Building and Mentorship Video

May 26, 2022 Team Nine: Youth Education, Employment and Training

(Presentations)

Youth Education, Employment and Training Video

June 2, 2022 Team Nine: Youth Education, Employment and Training

(Deliberations)

Youth Education, Employment and Training Video

June 1, 2022 Team Ten: Promise Zone

(Presentations)

Promise Zone Video

June 8, 2022 Team Ten: Promise Zone

(Deliberations)

Promise Zone Video

June 7, 2022 Team Eleven: Homeless Services

(Presentations and Deliberations)

Homeless Services Video

WHAT IS the Community Human Service Partnership (CHSP)?

Initially implemented in 1997, the Community Human Service Partnership is an innovative collaboration between Leon County and the City of Tallahassee. It was established to most effectively distribute community funds for human services. An overview of the process:

Training is provided through mandatory workshops for interested non-profit agencies. Afterward, access to the online application is provided to eligible agencies with technical assistance available up until the application submission date.
The application includes financial, managerial, programmatic, and performance information.
Solicitation and training of volunteers that conduct the program reviews.
Dividing volunteers into 10 teams to review application grouped into funding categories such as children's services, substance abuse, youth education, and elderly services.
Each volunteer team reviews the applications, conducts site visits, and recommends priorities and funding.
Agencies may appeal the funding recommendations.
Final recommendations are submitted to the County and City commissions for approval.
Volunteers and agencies evaluate each year's process and make recommendations for improving the program for the next funding cycle. HOW DOES IT BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY? Prior to CHSP, the County and City conducted similar but separate processes for allocating human service funds. There were isolated funding decisions; less effective, sometimes politically sensitive funding recommendations; and no coordination of application reviews, funding implementation, or planning for services. Benefits of the CHSP process include:

Non-profits file only one application.
Elimination of over-funding of some agencies for the same services (i.e. 'double dipping').
Identification of gaps in service delivery.
Effective use of knowledgeable community volunteers.
Extensive volunteer training.
Less potential for political influence in funding recommendations.
Evaluation of funding process by volunteers and non-profit agencies.
Dialogue on community-wide planning and coordination of human services.
Shared administrative processes between the County and City.
Received $6.4 million in requests for funding.

Allocated $4.5 million to 65 agencies.
Recruited and trained approximately 100 volunteers from the community. AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Awards and recognition of the CHSP process are as follows:

A report by the 21st Century Council, a private non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Tallahassee/Leon County, concluded 'One of the most successful coordinated efforts in the community has been the collaboration of the United Way of the Big Bend, the City of Tallahassee, Leon County, ...'
Awarded the John J. Gunter Blue Ribbon in Best Practices in Government from the U.S. Department of Housing and Human Development.
CHSP was one of the three showcased projects in the All-America competition.
Model replicated by other local governments.
Selected as a case study by the International City County Management Association Universities Best Practices 2000.
Process published in several government publications. For more information: Please visit the CHSP website at www.chspportal.org to register as an agency or volunteer.