What is Family First ?
Family First is a local search engine specifically created for the use of families within the Erie County Department of Mental Health’s Family Voices Network. Using the ideas gathered at a family focus group in April 2008, CCNY developed this search engine to identify, rank order, and match mental health workers with their child’s or family’s need(s).
The goals of Family First are to increase family voice and individual choice in Erie County’s System of Care, to decrease the labor intensive process of identifying and contracting mental health providers, and finally, to provide all agencies an equal opportunity for exposure to each family, so that families are making the most clearly informed choice.
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