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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.
Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention: Strategies for State and Social Policymakers (PDF - 172 KB)
Finance Project (2005)
Outlines the three levels of child abuse and neglect prevention and reviews State and local approaches that can be used to address each level.
Network Self-Assessment Tool (PDF - 116 KB)
FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention (2006)
Assists States in establishing local or regional networks and reviewing their current work by identifying network strengths as well as areas needing improvement.
Building Partnerships With Neighborhoods and Local Communities (PDF - 254 KB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family to Family Initiative (2000)
The value of developing community partnerships in child welfare.
Community Partnerships for the Protection of Children
Center for the Study of Social Policy
Works with jurisdictions across the country to improve society's response to protecting vulnerable children and strengthening 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."
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
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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.
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.
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.