Westchester’s Integrated Services Planning Initiative seeks to strengthen and support the role of community planning councils. The number of communities that are active in community planning has doubled, growing from 5 to 14 communities in the last 3 years. Currently, ten target communities have been fully engaged in a process of formalized, community level cross service system needs assessment, goals and objectives setting, implementation and evaluation strategies. All ten of the communities were active in CCSI and, thus, the challenge has been to broaden out from high-risk family needs to examining the needs of the general population. By end of 2006, eight target communities participated in community planning activities. Integrated Services Planning will continue to work with these communities throughout the three year plan cycle.

• Yonkers – Healthy Yonkers Initiative and Targeted Community Action Planning (T-CAP) youth gang/violence community strategic planning model based on CTC through OJJDP.
• Mount Vernon – Communities That Care
• New Rochelle – Project FOCUS (Families Organized to Curb the Use of Substances Communities That Care
• Port Chester –Communities That Care
• Ossining – Ossining Communities That Care
• Peekskill – Peekskill Agencies Acting Together White Plains
• White Plains -  Communities That Care
• Mt. Kisco / Bedford – Committee for Peace Association
• Mamaroneck- R.A.D.A.R.- Communities That Care Group
• Eastchester- Communities That Care
• Cortlandt – Communities That Care
• Larchmont – Communities That Care
• Yorktown – Communities That Care
• Pelham – Communities That Care

Through technical assistance provided by Student Assistance Services, the communities of Mamaroneck and Eastchester were mentored and have now formally instituted the Communities That Care model of assessing risk and protective factors impacting youth and families in their communities.