Interagency Collaboration

		Email Follow these Steps to email a friend or colleague a link to this information. Interagency Collaboration Year Published: 2008 http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/acloserlook/interagency/ Serving children involved in the child welfare system calls for services and support from a variety of human service and community organizations, which is often a challenging aspect of child welfare casework. Interagency collaboration, a core principle in systems of care, focuses on bringing together and engaging critical stakeholders, such as juvenile justice, mental health, education, law enforcement, and Tribal authorities, in a coordinated and integrated effort to serve children whose needs cross multiple systems. This issue of A Closer Look considers the challenges and strategies associated with building and sustaining interagency collaboration in a child welfare driven system of care. The report draws on current research in the field as well as the knowledge and experiences of nine grant communities currently in the fifth year of a 5-year demonstration grant. Step 1: Recipient email address(es) (First one is Required) To Email Address 1: To Email Address 2: To Email Address 3: To Email Address 4: To Email Address 5:   Step 2: From Email Address (Required) From Email Address:   Step 3: Verify You are Human (Required) Are you Human? True False   Step 3: Send the link Print (PDF 2950KB)  Share
Author(s)	National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center for Systems of Care.
Year Published	2008

Demonstration Sites and References

Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care Demonstration Sites

California – Partnering4Permanency – Valerie Earley, Project Director, vearley@ehsd.cccounty.us

Colorado – Jefferson County System of Care – Susan Franklin, Project Director, SFrankli@jeffco.us

Kansas – Family Centered Systems of Care – Beth Evans, Project Director, ebme@srs.ks.gov

Nevada – Caring Communities Project – Tiffany Hesser, Project Director, HesserTi@co.clark.nv.us

New York – The CRADLE in Bedford Stuyvesant: A Systems of Care Initiative – Nigel Nathaniel, Project Director, Nigel.Nathaniel@dfa.state.ny.us

North Carolina – Improving Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care – Eric Zechman, Project Director, ericzechman@ncmail.net

North Dakota – Medicine Moon Initiative: Improving Tribal Child Welfare Outcomes Through Systems of Care – Deb Painte, Project Director, debp@nativeinstitute.org

Oregon – Improving Permanency Outcomes Project – Patrick Melius, Project Director, Patrick.J.Melius@state.or.us

Pennsylvania – Locally Organized Systems of Care – Andrea Richardson, Project Director, c-arichard@state.pa.us

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References

De Carolis, G., Southern, L., Blake, F. (2007). Improving child welfare outcomes through systems of care: Building the infrastructure: A guide for communities. Fairfax, VA: National Technical Assistance and Evaluation Center for Systems of Care, ICF International.

Hodges, S., Nesman, T., & Hernandez, M. (1999). Promising practices: Building collaboration in systems of care. Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health, 1998 Series, Volume VI. Retrieved May 22, 2007, from http://cecp.air.org/promisingpractices/1998monographs/vol6.pdf (PDF - 372 KB)

Knitzer, J., Cauthen, N. K., & Kisker, E. (1999). Enhancing the well-being of young children and families in the context of welfare reform: Lessons from early childhood, TANF, and family support programs. New York: National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.

Kortenkamp, K., & Ehrle, J. (2002). The well-being of children involved with the child welfare system: A national overview. Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

Linden, R. M. (2002) Working across boundaries: Making collaboration work in government and nonprofit organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Pires, S. A. (2007). Primer hands on-Child welfare. Portland, ME: University of Southern Maine, National Resource Center for Organizational Improvement.

Robinson, C., Rosenberg, S., Teel, M. K., & Steinback-Tracy, K. (2003). Interagency collaboration guidebook: A strategic planning tool for child welfare and Part C agencies. Retrieved July 31, 2007 from http://jfkpartners.org/documents/106059-Interagency-Guidebook-Revised.pdf (PDF - 193 KB)

Walsh, J. (1999). The eye of the storm: Ten years on the front lines of new futures: An interview with Otis Johnson and Don Crary. Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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