YFC membership is comprised of youth, young adults, families, system partners, and community partners who live and/or work within the North Sound region. A member is defined as someone who has attended at least two meetings in the past six months. Membership rosters are compiled quarterly. Meetings are open to the public and non-members are welcome to attend and provide input and feedback regarding SOC functioning, gaps, and needs. YFC actively recruits community leaders who reflect the diversity in the region to better conduct business in ways that benefit all of the children, youth, young adults, and families the SOC serves. 

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Roles of YFC's Members and Tri-Leads:

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• Members provide leadership, support, and guidance to those directly responsible for managing programs and activities within the SOC. Through education, collaboration, and participation, members influence the movement toward the infusion of SOC values and principles in matters pertaining to workforce development, policy development and revision (broadly construed), best practices, financial decisions, and structural changes within the SOC. The role of members also includes the following:

  • Identify individual, behavioral health serve agency, and community strengths to the forefront in completing necessary tasks,​

  • Identify barriers/challenges and approaches to address issues,

  • Identify strengths/initiatives/projects of existing behavioral health service agencies that support SOC values and principles,

  • Educate SOC partners on the priorities identified by youth and families, and

  • Develop problem-solving approaches for moving forward. 

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• Tri-Leads are expected to leverage their experiences of either accessing services or supporting a young person in doing so to guide the activities of the FYSPRT. Family and Systems leaders, in partnership with the convener, are expected to develop positive youth-adult partnerships with the youth leader(s) by assisting them in building leadership skills and gaining experience in SOC change work. The System lead, in partnership with the convener, is expected to share knowledge about how systems operate with youth and family leaders who may not yet have the information they need to realize their visions for change. Additionally, tri-leads are charged with:

  • Developing regional meeting agendas,​

  • Facilitating meetings,

  • Attending Statewide FYSPRT meetings,

  • Elevating issues to the Statewide FYSPRT as needed, 

  • Bringing information from the Statewide FYSPRT to YFC,

  • Creating and maintaining connections with SOC leaders in the region,

  • Performing outreach and engagement activities, 

  • Participating in projects identified in the FYSPRT Work Plan, 

  • Representing YFC at community meetings and events and bringing information back to YFC's members, and

  • Attending trainings as requested by HCA or the convener.

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