COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Committee meetings, generally on the first Tuesday evening of each month at 7:30 p.m. at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital (Engh Room or Conference Room C/D), are open to the public and announced in the monthly MVCCA RECORD calendar. See "Next Meeting" for updates. 

Each meeting focuses on an area of community need or concern.  We invite, as guest resources, local nonprofit and county service providers and managers able to report on and respond to the issue.  The range of concerns is very broad -- hospital and healthcare planning, mental health treatment services, temporary emergency assistance for basic needs, early childcare and senior programs, and much more. Please click on the links below for summaries of monthly focus in 2009, 2008, and 2007.

                                GOALS

The Health and Human Services Committee conducts an ongoing review of needs and available resources in Fairfax County, with emphasis on the Mount Vernon District, the Route One Corridor, and the southeastern area of Human Services Region 1. We maintain our concern for the availability, quality, and access (including affordability) of effective programs and services for all residents of our community.        

The MVCCA recognizes that the capacity to deliver effective health and human services is essential to building and sustaining a healthy community and that these programs are also among our best means to reduce or control the growth of major public costs (for example, for hospitalization, incarceration, and chronic dependency).  Further, the MVCCA recommends crisis prevention and early intervention programs, in particular, as our most cost-effective strategies, with great benefits to our community.   A Resolution describing needs, resources, and guiding principles for Health and Human Services Planning appears in the MVCCA RECORD, annually in March, together with recommendations for the County’s Budget Plan for the next fiscal year, for the consideration and approval of the MVCCA’s General Council.  

Vernon Hospital

Health and Mental Health

Fairfax Health Department

FINDING SERVICES

The outstanding service network of our area is characterized by partnerships of many kinds between numerous county agencies and private nonprofit organizations, with important voluntary contributions from our community to both.

In the effort to link people in need with the most appropriate available services, Fairfax County maintains a multi-lingual  team of social service professionals in Coordinated Services Planning, whom you may reach during office hours through a single telephone number: