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Resources for Community Partnerships

General information about responding to child abuse and neglect.

Building Partnerships That Protect Our Children: Recommendations From the 2001 Child Protection Summit (PDF - 1050 KB)
International Association of Chiefs of Police, Child Welfare League of America, & National Children's Alliance (2002)
Summarizes recommendations in three categories: preventing abuse, improving community and professional responses, and enhancing the capacity of communities and professionals to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect.

Community Partnerships for Protecting Children Initiative
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Describes a child protection initiative that used a community partnership approach to engage a range of people and organizations to support families. The website includes information on principles, strategies, and evaluation results.

Community Partnerships Offer a Means for Changing Frontline Child Welfare Practice (PDF - 390 KB)
Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare
SafeKeeping, Spring 2005
Highlights a number of supports and other information on key "nuts and bolts" infrastructure elements that are necessary for child welfare agencies to effectively move a community partnership vision from theory to practice.

Community Partnerships for Protecting Children: Phase II Outcome Evaluation. Final Report
Chapin Hall Center for Children (2005)
Summary of an evaluation of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC) initiative. CPPC focuses on child welfare system reforms, collaboration among public and community agencies, and involving community residents in the commitment to children and families.

Family-Centered, Neighborhood-Based Services: Performance-Based Behaviors for the Child Welfare Practitioner and Community Providers (PDF - 120 KB)
Public Children Services Association of Ohio (2003)
Report designed to assist Ohio counties with implementation of family-centered, neighborhood-based child protection services.

Walking our Talk in the Neighborhoods: Building Professional/Natural Helper Partnerships
Kinney & Trent
Family Preservation Journal, (7), 2003
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Describes efforts and techniques used in Tacoma, Washington, to establish partnerships and develop good relationships for working with families involved in the child protective service system.

Updated on March 1, 2010