we have staff, but can we take them away from something and have them do something else? And, in fact, is that a good fit? Because we keep talking about the fact that staff that work with youth have to be able to work with youth, have to have the patience, have to have kind of the skill set to work effectively with youth. And it doesn't mean a person is a bad staff if they can't do that. It just means you can't kind of force someone to work with youth and young adults and then assume it's going to work if it's not a good fit. Or are we going to look for money to hire new staff? Typically, we don't fire existing staff, but we just look for money to find new staff. So those kind of basic questions. The issue about sustainability, I really want to underline. Too often I see a great idea, a little pot of money, and CILs are just incredibly good at taking a little pot of money and, whoa, going with it. But then when that money goes away, what are we going to do to sustain this? And I think it's critical that we talk about youth services being integrated into the service issue provided. David suggested a sixth core service. So I think we have to think about it as an ongoing process. And maybe we can't do the big, big, piece we like, but we can start with something and do it well and sustain it and then move on. So great. Thank you very much. And I'm so glad that you didn't say 'and we just want more money.'. (Applause) >> JUDITH: Money is part of it, but it's not all of it. Okay. This group. >> AUDIENCE MEMBER: We just focused on how to get the money. So one of our questions was, who was getting the Title V funding? With that, though, whoever is getting it, can we work with them? Can we collaborate with them?
we have staff, but can we take them away from something and have them do something else? And, in fact, is that a good fit? Because we keep talking about the fact that staff that work with youth have to be able to work with youth, have to have the patience, have to have kind of the skill set to work effectively with youth. And it doesn't mean a person is a bad staff if they can't do that. It just means you can't kind of force someone to work with youth and young adults and then assume it's going to work if it's not a good fit. Or are we going to look for money to hire new staff? Typically, we don't fire existing staff, but we just look for money to find new staff. So those kind of basic questions. The issue about sustainability, I really want to underline. Too often I see a great idea, a little pot of money, and CILs are just incredibly good at taking a little pot of money and, whoa, going with it. But then when that money goes away, what are we going to do to sustain this? And I think it's critical that we talk about youth services being integrated into the service issue provided. David suggested a sixth core service. So I think we have to think about it as an ongoing process. And maybe we can't do the big, big, piece we like, but we can start with something and do it well and sustain it and then move on. So great. Thank you very much. And I'm so glad that you didn't say 'and we just want more money.'. (Applause) >> JUDITH: Money is part of it, but it's not all of it. Okay. This group. >> AUDIENCE MEMBER: We just focused on how to get the money. So one of our questions was, who was getting the Title V funding? With that, though, whoever is getting it, can we work with them? Can we collaborate with them?