Community Umbrella Agency

Philadelphia’s new model for permanency services, Improving Outcomes for Children (IOC), is taking a community-based approach to streamline accountability and improve services. Community Umbrella Agencies (CUA’s) are community-based agencies that are responsible for the provision of direct case management services to families in their designated region. The CUAs ensure that local solutions and resources are more accessible to children and families. They develop connections to formal and informal neighborhood networks that can strengthen and stabilize families. In addition, they are responsible for recruitment and retention of foster and adoptive parents in the neighborhoods where children live. Bethanna is the Community Umbrella Agency (CUA) for West Philadelphia designated as CUA #10 and serving the 16^th and 19^th police districts as well as the CUA for Center City and South Philadelphia designated as CUA #8 and serving the 1st. 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 17th police districts.

CUA 8 Community Advisory Board

Chairperson – Kim Rollins – Proprietor, Master Loctician, Oxsun Hair Salon, LLC

Vice Chairperson – Tanika Little – Executive Director, Ian-Yae’s In Touch

Secretary – Carmetta Dickerson – South Division Coordinator, Town Watch Integrated Services

Director of Community Engagement, Bethanna CUA 8 – Kamau Kanyi

Darlene Bates-Harper – Co-Founder, The Resource Pop Up Bus

Delores Mills – Director, House of Able

Inem Olubajo, Director of Programs, The Coalition of African and Caribbean Communities (AFRICOM)

Jude Arijaje – CEO, Minutemann Press of Philadelphia

Joy Ogbonnaya – Supervisor in DBHIDS’ Community Wellness Engagement Unit (CWEU) Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual DisAbilities Services (DBHIAS)

Kim Smith – South Philly Jr. Stakeholders

Kong Vang, Youth Education Program Manager, Asian Arts Initiative

Rev. Delores Gardner, Chaplin, 17th Police District

Lynn Wilkins -Office Manager, Council President Kenyatta Johnson Office

Malkia Singleton Ofori-Agyekum – Pennsylvania State Director, ParentChild+

Maritza Gonzalez – Director of Youth and Family Service, Sunrise of Philadelphia

Meghan Abel-Moneim, Lead Teaching Artist, Asian Arts Initiative

Robert Pullin Jr. KidzPartners Navigator, Heath Partners Plans

Sean Korman – Member Experience Manager, Industrious

Teresa Saunders – Community Coordinator, West & South District Office of Multimodal Planning, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems, City of Philadelphia

Tyrique Glasgow – CEO, Young Chances Foundation

CUA 10 Community Advisory Board

Chantae Brabham (ADAC)

Natasha Dye (FACE)

Dominique Hudson (Powell)

Gregory Allen (Overbrook)

Briana Jackson (Locke)

Claire Hand (Library)

Falena Hand (Library)

Lea Hill (Granahan)

Jesse Woodhouse (Police)

Jerome Shabazz (Overbrook)

Kimberly Nettles (Martha Washington)

Samantha Smith (Kipp)