About Alignment Saginaw

    
In 1996 the Saginaw County Human Services Collaborative Body (SCHSCB) was established to act as the planning and decision making body to coordinate human services in Saginaw County.  The mission of the SCHSCB was to work toward a collaborative service delivery system, which fostered strong, safe families and communities and was cost effective. In 2009 the collaboration in Saginaw County evolved to include additional critical community dimensions and the related community leadership in a wider view of the community and its needs.   An “enhanced community collaborative” is a national trend that is being recognized across the country.  To enhance the dynamics of a community collaborative requires data collection and management that establishes benchmarks and measurable indicators of change to help guide progress and planning for our community.  A small group of community leaders had already identified the need to expand the focus of the SCHSCB, and referred to themselves as Alignment Saginaw.  After much deliberation, it was decided that it would be necessary to merge SCHSCB with Alignment Saginaw.  The purpose of Alignment Saginaw is to serve as the community collaborative for Saginaw County to improve the capacity for work by Alignment Saginaw members.  To this end the mission of Alignment Saginaw is to prepare and mobilize around opportunities that impact key areas affecting Saginaw County’s quality of life.  It was also decided and approved by the Alignment Saginaw body that the Saginaw Community Foundation would be the fiduciary to manage the operations of the group and to identify and oversee the leadership behind the program. 

Opportunities will be data driven and action oriented. 

The function of Alignment Saginaw is:

  • Act as a sounding board to learn about, connect and promote the success of other "collaborations" with an eye on innovation, efficiency, reduction of duplication and pertinent outcome measures and community indicators once established
  • Be action orientated and accomplish tasks having both broad and specific community impact (build on Vision 20/20)
  • Act as the community focal point for data warehousing and community level statistics and facilitate/sponsor the development of a report card and other data/information purposes to help quantify both Saginaw needs and strengths and progress.
  • Act as senior level problem fixers/ barrier busters, facilitators, communicators and establish formal Saginaw leadership Networking
  • Provide the collective leadership voice to address/ take action on public policy on local state and national levels
  • Act as an aligner, i.e., leadership to move priority community indicators in a positive direction through related projects
  • Communicate well with the community and in as transparent a fashion possible.
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