1. Gulf Bend Community Collaborative Group
“Crafting Sustainable Collaboratives”
Gulf Bend Community Collaborative Group
22 June, 2018

2. Who are we?
We are a collaborative community of 7 rural Texas counties
We typify rural communities that comprise nearly 80% of the Texas area
Like all other rural Texas regions, we have limited resources and growing behavioral health needs

3. Building a
Collaborative

4. Who are the Players?

5. Capacity for thinking – conceptually, imaginatively, systematically, and opportunistically – with regard to the attainment of success in the future
Strategist

6. Strategist Develops the Plan of Action Defines the Question
Identifies the Problem
Finds Opportunities to Fix It
Strategist
Makes the Case
Develops the Plan of Action

7. HOW DO YOU FIND? Requires a search INTJ (Myers-Briggs)
Introversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judgment
Very rare Only 2% if the population
Good Strategy Bad Strategy, Richard Rumelt

8. Champion

9. Champion Identifies Issues and Raises Them Quickly
Identifies and Manages Resistance
Argues for a Cause on Behalf of Someone Else
Creates Super-Users
Tenacious

10. HOW DO YOU FIND? You don’t find a champion. They find you.
“If you build it a champion will come”
“When the project is ready a champion appears”

12. Stakeholders!

13. Anyone who can ruin your day!
Interested entities both internal and external
Those who can impact the project
Those who are impacted by the project
Those with a vested interest
in the success of the project
Those with a vested interest
in the failure of the project
Anyone who can ruin your day!

14. The Cast

15. The Work of the Collaborative
Meet future Mental Health needs
Forecast short and long-term community needs
Cultivate Community Relationships
Collaboratives chase community needs. But the collaborative comes first. Don’t let a need drive the collaborative.
Collaboratives exist apart from the needs they chase

16. Meeting future mental health needs
Gulf Bend Community Collaborative
Plausible future?
Problems A to B?
Solutions A to B!
Possible?
Probable?
Preferred?
Prototype
Implement
Forecast environment, concept, organization, people, preparations, equipment, facilities, resources B
Change
Mental Health Programs A
Irrelevant
Time

17. We have to do better We have a problem
Rural Texas communities are ill- equipped to care for people with behavioral disorders
Rural Texas jails are de facto mental health care providers for people with serious mental illness
We have to do better

19. I

20. An initial program focus
Jail
Improved Community Awareness and Involvement
Reduce Recidivism
Gulf Bend Community Collaborative
Before
After
During
Diversion
Transition
Intervention
Jail
(Legal Encounter)
(Detention)
(Support Services)
New Direction
Criteria for Success: Break the Cycle and Take a new Direction

21. We can identify priorities
Mental Health Deputies
Mental Health Case Managers
Assessment tools
Mental Health Network system
Database
Community Support Services
Mental Health Court System
Criteria for program measurement
Communication and education

23. 6502 Nursery Drive, Victoria, Texas
GULF BEND CENTER
6502 Nursery Drive, Victoria, Texas
Jeff Tunnell, Executive Director
Lane Johnson, M.Div., LPC
Chief Clinical Officer
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