On Thursday, June 24, the Alliance hosted a webinar titled Creating a High Performing Rural Continuum, Part II: Increasing Stakeholder Engagement & Strengthening Collaboration. Presenters included Melany Mondello and Scott Tibbits of the Maine Balance of State CoC and Ragan Claypool of the Wood, Seneca, Ottawa, Sandusky (WSOS) Continuum of Care in Ohio. Speakers provided an overview of their communities’ CoC infrastructures and services. They also presented strategies to strengthen interagency coordination and collaboration to address key challenges in a rural CoC. This webinar was the second in the webinar/workshop series hosted by the Alliance's Center for Capacity Building regarding Critical Success Factors in High Performing Rural Continuums of Care.

1. Increasing Stakeholder Engagement & Strengthening Collaboration Ragan Claypool, Support Services Coordinator WSOS Community Action Commission Fremont, Ohio [email_address]

4. How the Continuum Works: Updates, funding opportunities and requests for additional data are provided from the state level Data and accomplishments are shared with advocacy groups and funding sources Information from each CoC is compiled and submitted Data is shared ideas are discussed at Coalition Meetings In Each County

10. Questions ? For more information, please contact: Ragan Claypool, Support Services Coordinator WSOS Community Action Commission, Inc. [email_address] www.wsos.org