2019-431-E Health - Family Success Alliance partner MOU

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DocuSign Envelope ID:C83972F6-1100-4600-8747-8D3DE320234B 3. Partner Mutual Expectations & Responsibilities: The following responsibilities are required of partners to ensure the effectiveness of the collaborative: All Partners: • Provide services and support that furthers the long-term mission and vision of all children in the zone graduating from high school prepared for college and career and the empowerment of their families and communities • Commit to using an equity and asset-based approach when working with families and planning services. Engage in ongoing discussion to strengthen our understanding and implementation in this area. • Refer eligible children,youth and caregivers to partner agencies when appropriate in order to provide comprehensive services to each family. • Assist in promotion, marketing, and outreach of FSA as opportunities arise. • Ensure that appropriate staff attend regularly scheduled meetings of the collaborative to discuss grant implementation, service coordination, and strategic direction. • Submit reports and provide additional information requested by the fiscal agent and backbone agency in a timely manner, including paperwork required for receipt of funds. • Participate in agreed upon processes that ensure accountability to services and supports committed to FSA- enrolled families and to deliverables outlined in FSA-related work plans, including reporting outlined in "FSA Collaborative Partners:Accountability& Reporting", incorporated by reference. • Agree to the budget allocation reported in the Funding Agreement for the current fiscal year. Funding allocations will be based in criteria agreed upon and discussed by partners with recommendations from the backbone agency. Amendments to the Funding Agreement will be discussed with partners for review. • Ensure appropriate child safeguarding protocols are in place when providing services to children, including the provision of childcare during adult-oriented programs, and agree to consider adoption of a formal child safeguarding policy, such as any relevant policy adopted by the FSA Advisory Council and incorporate into MOU by reference. • It is also recommended that all partner agencies be covered by General Liability insurance that includes sexual abuse/molestation coverage. Fiscal Agent: • The Orange County Partnership for Young Children has fiscal monitoring responsibilities for funds dispensed by United Way of the Greater Triangle, as follows: (1) review of partners' quarterly budget to actual reports and (2) review of partners'fiscal year audit. Backbone Agency: • Lead efforts to ensure a shared vision for change, including a common understanding of the problem and a joint approach to solving it through agreed upon actions. • Facilitate agreement on common measures, collect and analyze relevant data, and evaluate results to ensure outcomes for families are achieved and partners can hold each other accountable. • Coordinate partners to establish a plan for implementing mutually-reinforcing activities that help families achieve their goals and is consistent with the resources available in the Funding Agreement or with resources potentially available through fundraising efforts. • Communicate consistently and openly to build trust, assure mutual objectives, and appreciate common motivation.