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Building Community Support
Building community support is a crucial element of any child abuse prevention program. Find resources for involving and equipping individuals, organizations, and leaders to address risk factors and promote healthy families.
Community Café Learning Community
Equips communities with tools to organize gatherings to discuss their unique concerns and build the relationships necessary to strengthen families.
Become a Part of Your Community: 2008 Advocate Resource Booklet (PDF - 3130 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse Florida, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida, & Florida Department of Children and Families (2008)
Helps individuals involve schools, religious and civic organizations, childcare providers, parents, media outlets, and others in a community-wide campaign to focus on solutions to prevent child abuse and neglect. Also available in Spanish (PDF - 3370 KB).
Community Life, Public Health, and Children's Safety
Melton, Holaday, & Kimbrough-Melton
Family and Community Health, 31(2), 2008
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Describes the Strong Communities for Children initiative, an effort replicated in several diverse communities to mobilize organizations and volunteers to build a neighborhood-based child protection system that promotes child safety and addresses other issues important for community health.
| Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment. | |
| Author(s): | Children's Bureau |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 3,388KB) |
| Year Published: | 2010 - 150 pages |
| This manual reflects the widespread recognition that coordinated multidisciplinary responses are needed to address the complex needs of today's children and families. It offers guidance on how diverse community agencies, organizations, and individuals can join together to provide a web of support for families and create safe, healthy environments for children to thrive. The manual describes the benefits of community partnerships, outlines the steps to establishing and sustaining partnerships, and provides information on how to measure results. It also describes ways in which child protective services can adapt their practices to engage families' natural support systems and increase community involvement ... | |
Community Partnerships Offer a Means for Changing Frontline Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 391 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy (2005)
Key infrastructure elements necessary for child welfare agencies to effectively move a community partnership vision from theory to practice.
Creating Community Responsibility for Child Protection: Possibilities and Challenges
Daro & Dodge
Future of Children, 19(2), 2009
Examines five community prevention efforts aimed at enhancing formal and informal community support systems and creating cultural standards that foster positive child development. (PDF - 187 KB)
Creating Parenting Rich Communities Initiative
Includes resources on public awareness, education tools for involving the community, and positive parenting tips.
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization's Capacity: A Community-Building Workbook
Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern University (2005)
Helps organizations enhance connections with and invest in community assets and strengthen current and future community-based projects, activities, and proposals.
Family-Centered Community Building (PDF - 380 KB)
National Human Services Assembly (2005)
Explores a process for engaging family residents and other stakeholders in collaborative efforts to strengthen and improve conditions for families with children, including a discussion of advantages, case studies, and State and local policy recommendations.
The Front Porch Project®
American Humane Association
This initiative focuses on developing and sustaining community involvement to protect children.
Healthy Communities - Healthy Youth
Search Institute
An initiative to motivate and equip individuals, organizations, and their leaders to join together in nurturing competent, caring, and responsible children and adolescents.
Partnerships for Families: Stories and Lessons From Los Angeles Communities (PDF - 2970 KB)
First 5 LA (2010)
Describes the Partnerships for Families concept and model and its success in building a comprehensive network of community services and supports for families. The report includes information on developing and maintaining collaboratives, achieving and sustaining improvements among at-risk families, and recommendations for communities, systems, and funders.
Preventing Family Violence: Lessons From the Community Engagement Initiative (PDF - 344 KB)
Family Violence Prevention Fund (2004)
Describes the lessons learned from projects using community mobilization strategies to prevent and reduce family violence, including information on getting started, funding, strategies for effective engagement, and measuring project effectiveness.
Residents Engaged in Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods: A Guide to Key Ideas, Effective Approaches, and Technical Assistance Resources for Making Connections Cities and Site Teams (PDF - 408 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation (2001)
Describes effective approaches and strategies for encouraging resident participation in improving their neighborhoods.
Transforming Communities to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: A Primary Prevention Approach (PDF - 210 KB)
Prevention Institute (2009)
Provides the framework for a comprehensive strategy to influence policies and alter organizational practices in order to create safe and supportive communities that strive to prevent child sexual abuse and exploitation before it occurs.