12 Minnesota counties explore collaborating on bold redesign of human services delivery
In February 2012, twelve county human services departments in southeast Minnesota that had spent the last two years exploring how they might innovate to jointly provide services developed an operating plan... read the press release. The media coverage below provides details of developments since then.
Media coverage
- Four-county human services authority continues planning Post-Bulletin (April 30, 2013)
- Southeast Minnesota Human Services Redesign moves forward with new plan Owatonna People's Press (March 2, 2013)
- Human Services Redesign steering committee trying to determine project structure for Steele, Waseca, other counties Owatonna People's Press (January 18, 2013)
- Southeast Minnesota: Regional Human Services Delivery Authority Accenture case study (December 14, 2012)
- Waseca County board approves next step of human services resdesign Austin Daily Herald (September 19, 2012)
- Steele County Board approves first phase of human services redesign Owatonna People's Press (September 12, 2012)
- Houston County drops out of human services redesign Spring Grove Herald (September 11, 2012)
- County OKs next step of redesign Austin Daily Herald (September 10, 2012)
- Steele County still plans on moving forward with human services merger Owatonna People's Press (September 6, 2012)
- Merger on thin ice? Austin Daily Herald (September 5, 2012)
- Six Counties plan human services redesign The Times (September 4, 2012)
- Savings likely less with new Human Services merger model August Daily Herald (August 31, 2012)
- Steele County Board to vote on human services redesign in September Owatonna People's Press (August 31, 2012)
- The Houston County Board of Commissioners votes to stay with redesign Herald County News (August 1, 2012)
- Counties to decide whether to continue human services merger The Free Press (July 16, 2012)
- Olmsted is 6th county to vote 'no' on Human Services merger Austin City Herald (July 11, 2012)
- Our View: Counties should continue to cooperate The Free Press (July 11, 2012)
- Editorial: Collaboriation still may help counties StarTribune (July 11, 2012)
- 12-county effort on life support StarTribune (July 7, 2012)
- County to continue with human services merger Albert Lea Tribune (July 4, 2012)
- Board advised to opt out of services delivery system Post-Bulletin (June 27, 2012)
- Dodge County commissioners hear more about human services redesign Dodge City Star Herald (May 21, 2012)
- Minnesota Local Governments May Need to Learn to "Share" MinnPost (May 30, 2012)
- Dodge County commissioners updated on human services redesign Rochester Post-Bulletin (May 19, 2012)
- Twelve counties looking to collaborate Red Wing Republican Eagle (February 6, 2012)
- Counties closer to consolidating some programs Winona Daily News (January 31, 2012
- Q&A: Paul Fleissner of Olmsted County on state mandates All Things Considered, Minnesota Public Radio (January 24, 2012)
- Facing budget cuts, 12 counties consider collaborating to deliver human services MinnPost (January 27, 2012)
- County board looks at human services delivery redesign in southeastern Minnesota Chatfield News-Record (January 25, 2012)
- 12 Counties explore collaboration Albert Lea Tribune (January 26, 2012)
- Accenture to develop regional operating model for Human Services in Southeast Minnesota Wall Street Journal Market Watch, New York, NY (January 25, 2012)
- Accenture to develop human services delivery model for 12 souteast Minnesota counties Computer Business Review (January 25, 2012)
- Possible redesign on the horizon for Human Services Waseca County News, MN (January 16, 2012)
