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1992 HSAC Forum Recommendations <br />The Vision Statement for the Orange County Human Services network evolved <br />from the work conducted during the 1991 Human Services Forum. In 1992, the purpose <br />of the forum was to design strategies to encourage the development of forum attributes <br />described in the Vision: The network should be coordinated, should be accessible to the <br />public, should obtain user and community input for guidance, and should provide <br />community education about human services issues. <br />Forum participants were divided into four groups and were given three questions <br />to guide the discussion about these topics: <br />What are the current strengths and weaknesses of our human services network <br />in your assigned topic area? <br />What characteristics would define a good system? <br />What would be workable strategies for achieving the system previously <br />described? <br />Although the work groups were charged with developing strategies to achieve four <br />different goals, their suggestions were often inter - related. Recorded comments indicated <br />forum participants frequently mentioned three topics: <br />• the need to obtain more client input; <br />• the need to educate, learn from, and employ the resources of people and <br />organizations outside the traditional human services network; and <br />• the need to establish a central human services information and referral system. <br />