Strategies for children and families identified as being at substantial risk of child abuse and neglect...

• Community Support Agreements: A way for families to enter into voluntary arrangements with neighborhood partners.
• Common Assessment: Use of a common intake form and assessment/engagement tools minimizes paperwork and facilitates service delivery for families in need. It allows the families to create a "lifebook" of their family.
• Individualized Course of Action (ICA): A team plan for most vulnerable families where the family is in the "driver’s" seat. See Family Team Conferences below.
• Family Support Workers: Workers from the community help connect to families with the safety network, and develop plans tailored to their needs. One worker specializes in prenatal assistance, the other in chronic neglect cases.

Strategies for building and strengthening
our communities...

• Parents Anonymous Groups: Provide support in the community for parents and others raising kids.
• Community Support Coordinator: Engages and coaches community residents as volunteer "informal supports" to neighbors and families.
• Hub Support Coordinator: Develops leadership capacity in parents & community participants in the "hubs." Supports hubs in identifying and building resources.
• Community Celebrations: Funds are available for community events with a family focus.

Strategies for organizing a
network of supports....

• Coffee Talks: Monthly "coffee club" for service providers and community residents with featured topics and opportunities for networking and sharing information.
• Capacity Building Opportunities: Funds available by application for training, skill building, and leadership building.
• Volunteer Resource Parents: An initiative to pair pregnant teens with "parent mentors" during the teenager’s pregnancy and shortly after the child is born.
• Family Support Teams: School-based or linked teams of support providers and families meeting to share information, and coordinate resources for commonly served families.
• Family Team Conferences: Opportunities for families to convene their own support team to help them design an action plan.