Neighborhood-Based Care
Child welfare services, including out-of-home care, should be based in the neighborhood where the family resides.
The report describes how partnerships between public and private agencies can be developed around a shared vision and goals, shared communications strategies and performance standards, a variety of operating structures and a formalized way of managing the work. It also presents the issues and challenges to achieving successful partnerships. This document is part of the Family to Family Tools for Rebuilding Foster Care series.
Public/private child welfare partnerships succeed when the organizations agree on shared goals, develop benchmarks to determine progress, jointly develop standards to guide service delivery and care and use a contract mechanism to formalize the relationship.