Overview
The
State Interagency Council for Services and Supports to Children and
Transition-age Youth (SIAC) is a group of leaders representing 12 state
agencies from across 5 Cabinets that serve children and transition-age
youth and their families, a youth, a parent of a child or transition-age
youth with a behavioral health need, a member of a nonprofit family
organization, and a representative from the Subcommittee for Equity
& Justice for All Youth (SEJAY).
SIAC
oversees coordinated policy development, comprehensive planning, and
collaborative budgeting for services and supports to children and
transition-age youth with or at risk of developing behavioral health
needs and their families. SIAC operates in accordance with the system of
care approach (see Related Links) and encourages community partners to
do the same. SIAC conducts monthly meetings that are open to the public.
These monthly meetings support collaboration among child- and
family-serving agencies and system of care partners. SIAC serves as the
governing body for the state system of care and directs Regional
Interagency Councils (RIACs) (see Related Links) to operate as the
regional locus of accountability for the system of care. RIACs provide a
structure for coordination, planning, and collaboration of services and
supports at the local level to children, adolescents, and
transition-age youth and their families, to help them function better at
home, in school, in the community, and throughout life.