Breakthrough Communities

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The National Breakthrough Network is built on the straightforward premise that results are more powerful when stakeholders commit time and resources to work together.

The goal of the National Breakthrough Network is to increase the capacity of service delivery through collaborative data exchange across the country, one community at a time. The measures of success for the Breakthrough Network are:

• Engaged partners
• Coordinated data and services
• Maximized resources
• Measurable impacts
• Clients well-served

The objectives of this initiative are to work from both ends of the spectrum, on the ground at the local level, and as the convener of a national network of leaders.

By working at both the local and national level, VisionLink will:

• help communities build useful and sustainable multi-agency partnerships.
• build an active network of communities who share purpose, technology, challenges and opportunities in order to better serve their clients.
• foster the collective voice for collaborative data exchange to reach community objectives.

The National Breakthrough Network is convened and facilitated by VisionLink where practitioners learn from and teach one another. The result: more effective practices of service delivery within each participating partnership.

The National Breakthrough Network is driven by participant ideas and questions, the things that really matter to each partnership. Network members define the agenda-the content and the voice. VisionLink provides the intersection of thought and practice through virtual and face-to-face meetings.

The ten pilot communities benefit by deepening their knowledge and expertise, interacting with peers from across the country to learn strategies and effective practices, helping each other solve problems, and gaining a place to feel connected rather than isolated in silos where the wheels are constantly re-invented.

The ten organizations that make up the National Breakthrough Network are:

• 4People, Eastern Washington State
• Baldwin County United Ways/VOAD, Alabama
• Colorado 2-1-1 & HMIS, Colorado
• First Call for Help, Northwest Florida
• Mental Health Association of NYC, New York, New York
• Odessa Links, Odessa, Texas
• Pocono Healthy Communities Alliance, Northeast Pennsylvania
• Safe Horizon, New York, New York
• United Way of Abilene, Abilene, Texas
• United Way of Northern Nevada & the Sierra, Reno, Nevada

VisionLink benefits by learning first hand about the needs of our clients and about trends and best practices in the field.