Safety First
The top priority of a successful People Helping People neighborhood partnership is child, family and worker safety.
This guide is one of several tools within the Foundation’s Family to Family Initiative established in 1992 to reconceptualize, redesign and reconstruct foster care systems. It explores non-traditional partnerships in Pierce County, Washington to achieve an interconnected web of neighborhood hubs that support families.
People Helping People participants and other helpers benefited the whole neighborhood in this staged approach toward family self-sufficiency--from addressing physical safety, family sustenance and overall well-being--through gradual neighborhood bonding where individuals and families help one another as problems arise.