• to make services and supports available to families when they need them, rather than requiring a diagnostic label to trigger funding and access
• to enable agencies to take action, through formal and informal means, to reach socially isolated families

Funders and policymakers work to make income and employment supports easily available to eligible families, to reduce the strain and risks that poverty places on families.

Policymakers adopt regulations, policies and practices that minimize administrative demands on families, by enabling agencies to share client information, use common eligibility definitions and determinations, and collect common data.

Funders support community efforts to monitor:

• Program, neighborhood, and community-wide outcomes
• The availability of primary and preventive services in addition to crisis interventions
• The availability of appropriate services and supports to everyone who needs them-both through individual programs and through community-wide decisions and resource allocations
• The cultural and linguistic appropriateness of services
• The removal of barriers that race, language, and culture pose to families trying to obtain support