When Delaware County s needy seek help finding jobs, transportation or healthcare assistance, many leave county agencies with a referral to another agency sometimes with just a phone number.
How often they follow through is hard to know for agencies such as the Delaware County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Delaware County Job and Family Services and the Delaware-Morrow Mental Health & Recovery Services Board.
That s why those agencies have been devising a way to join forces at least geographically.
The result is a year-long study by MA Architects, which cost the county $70,000, that recommends building a social services campus that would create three new buildings at a cost of about $40 million. Work could begin in 2023.