Youth & Family Resource Center, Inc.

The Pottawatomie County Child Welfare Collaborative is a promising community-based empowerment model for creating positive systems change through building effective organizations at the local level, which have the ability to leverage and secure both public and private resources for a common mission of improving child health and well-being.

Because the Collaborative recognized that healthy communities raise healthy children, in order to improve child health, the health of the community at large needed to be improved.  Therefore, rather just focusing on children, the Collaborative adopted a broad philosophy of ‘health,’ and developed an action plan to address the issues identified in the study, with goals and objectives aimed at promoting healthy behaviors, creating healthy physical environments, improving socio-economic health and strengthening clinical care in the county. 

Pottawatomie County Collaborative Coordinator

Rachael Gregory, BA,  She has been employed with Youth and Family since 2014, beginning as a Child Care Worker in the Hope House Shelter. Rachael was also the assistant to the Pottawatomie County Collaborative Coordinator and worked with the Coodinated School Health Teams in south Pottawatomie County as well as McLoud, OK. 



For more information please contact Rachael Sain at 405-275-3340 or email rachaels@yfrchshawnee.org