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Collaboration for Service Delivery: State and Local Examples

State and local examples of collaboration among public and private agencies, communities, and families to improve service delivery.

Building a Coalition of Non-Profit Agencies to Collaborate With a County Health and Human Services Agency: The Napa County Behavioral Health Committee of the Napa Coalition of Non-Profits
Libby & Austin
Administration in Social Work, 26(4), 2002
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Case study of a coalition of nonprofit agencies working to plan and implement a comprehensive human services delivery system for residents in Napa County, CA.

Collaboration in New Hampshire: A Look at Service Integration Between Early Head Start and Family-Centered Early Supports and Services (PDF - 208 KB)
O'Hare & Printz (2003)
Guides Head Start and other early childhood programs and their early intervention partners in refining their practices and systems in collaboration and partnership.

Community Collaboration in New York City: Charting the Course for a Neighborhood-Based Safety Net: An Assessment of the NYC Administration for Children's Services' Neighborhood Networks Project (PDF - 186 KB)
New School University, Milano Graduate School (2005)
Reviews networks in New York City that provide an infrastructure for collaboration among organizations working with children and families.

Community Partnerships and Linkages: Reaching Out to Work Together
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Family-Centered Practice, State of Maryland Department of Human Resources, & Baltimore City Department of Social Services (2002)
Curriculum for training child welfare workers to create, use, and sustain working community partnerships and linkages to benefit children and families in the child welfare system.

Cornell Curriculum on Collaboration and Community Building. Participant Manual
Dotterweich (2000)
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Curriculum developed for New York child welfare staff emphasizing partnerships with families and the importance of a strengths-based approach.

Georgia: Where Families Hold the Key to Connection
Deutsch
America's Family Support Magazine, 19(4), 2001
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Describes Georgia's Family Connection Initiative to encourage local communities to support families and improve child well-being.

Human Services in Montgomery County, Ohio: Service Integration Writ Large (PDF - 158 KB)
Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (2002)
Reviews co-location and services integration by the Montgomery, OH Department of Job and Family Services.

Introducing Child Welfare Neighborhood Teams That Promote Collaboration and Community-Based Systems of Care
Van Wagoner, Boyer, Wiesen, DeNiro-Ashton, & Lawson (2001)
In Innovative Practices With Vulnerable Children and Families
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Describes the process used in each of three regions of Salt Lake County, UT to set up neighborhood teams and develop relationships with community groups as a method for improving child protection.

Local Public-Nonprofit Partnerships: Getting Better Results
Lesky, O'Sullivan, & Goodmon
Policy and Practice, 59(3), 2001
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Findings from two studies of public-private partnerships in Wake County, NC to identify the elements of effective collaboration.

The San Francisco South East Community Connection: Partnerships in Child Welfare
Roditti (2001)
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Describes a collaboration between the San Francisco University School of Social Work at, the San Francisco Department of Human Services, and community-based agencies to enhance trust and reduce the entry of families into the child welfare system.

Teams in Child Welfare Settings: Interprofessional and Collaborative Processes
Lewandowski & GlenMaye
Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services, 83(3), 2002
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Describes the collaborative process, including success factors and challenge areas for interprofessional child welfare teams in a Midwest urban county.

Updated on March 19, 2010