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Collaborating With Your Community
Human services agencies, schools, faith-based groups, health-care facilities, businesses, and other agencies and organizations all have a stake in helping to prevent child abuse and neglect. Working in isolation, these groups often struggle to find the resources to make an impact on the lives of children and families. Working together, they can combine resources to prevent physical and emotional harm to children, build strong families, and help communities thrive.
Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Works with jurisdictions across the country to improve society's response to protecting vulnerable children. The Center provides funding and technical assistance to help communities keep children safe from abuse and neglect and strengthen families. This work engages public child protection agencies, human services providers, local organizations, the faith community, and neighborhood leaders, using the motto, "Keeping children safe is everybody's business."
Communities Have the Power to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect
Children's Bureau Express 1(1), 2000
The value of partnerships and how to build them.
Community Partnerships for Protecting Children: Phase II Outcome Evaluation, Final Report (PDF - 4096 KB)
Chapin Hall Center for Children, Center for the Study of Social Policy, Center for Community Partnerships in Child Welfare (2005)
Describes the activities and outcomes of the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children program, an 8-year child abuse prevention initiative that draws together several reform strategies from the child welfare, family support, and community-building fields.
Community Strategies to Reduce Child Abuse and Neglect: Lessons from the Safe Kids/Safe Streets Program (PDF - 350 KB)
Westat (2005)
Describes an evaluation of a program to help five communities reduce child abuse and neglect and their aftereffects through collaborative, communitywide efforts.
Community-Based Collaboration: An Overarching Best Practice in Prevention
Bond & Hauf
The Counseling Psychologist, 35(4), 2007
View Abstract
Reviews the elements of an effective prevention program and summarizes the ways in which community-based collaborations contribute to each.
Ensuring Our Children's Safety: How Communities Are Addressing Child Abuse and Neglect (PDF - 93 KB)
Mintz, Ojeda, & Williamson
Policy Practice Series (Family Connection Partnership), 3(2), 2006
Discusses how Georgia is addressing child abuse and neglect, including strategies that can be used by community collaboratives to combat child abuse and neglect.
Family to Family
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Helps communities work in partnership with a wide range of community organizations, in neighborhoods that are the source of high child protective services referral rates, to create an environment that supports families involved in the child welfare system and helps build stronger neighborhoods and families.
The Patch Approach (PDF - 287 KB)
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice
Best Practice/Next Practice, 1(2), Fall 2000
The Massachusetts Patch Initiative combines the protection work of family support within public child welfare with the prevention work of family support in a neighborhood setting, breaking down barriers between agencies and the people they serve.
Standards for Prevention Programs: Building Success Through Family Support (PDF - 645 KB)
Family Support America (2003)
Conceptual, practice, and administrative standards that can be used to evaluate a variety of prevention programs serving diverse populations.
What Is the Community Partnerships for Protecting Children Approach? (PDF - 294 KB)
Center for the Study of Social Policy
An approach to child welfare aimed at keeping children safe from abuse and neglect and strengthening families.
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