A Model for Public and Private Child Welfare Partnership

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Description and Purpose of This Tool
• The Potential for Public/Private Partnership
• Strategies for Building Public/Private Partnerships
• Issues and Challenges for Public/Private Partnership

Key Takeaway

Using Shared Goals, Benchmarks, Collaborative Standards and Contracts Support Successful Public/Private Partnerships

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.