Promoting Partnerships
A key to child welfare reform is creating partnerships between agencies, families and neighborhoods so children who have been abused or neglected can receive better care.
Casey’s Family to Family initiative has been an opportunity for states and communities to rethink, redesign and reconstruct their foster care system. This Implementation Guide was developed as a practical resource for child welfare agencies to use in crafting a more family-focused, neighborhood-based service system. It describes site activities and approaches that can help change practice and realign systems based on four basic core concepts.
Family to Family proved that child welfare agencies can partner with disadvantaged communities to provide better care for children who have been abused or neglected. Child welfare practitioners and leaders along with neighborhood residents and leaders are developing models and tools that can be used by other neighborhoods and agencies interested in such partnerships.