What is Community Partnership?
• Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC) is an approach that recognizes keeping children safe is everybody’s business. • It’s an approach that neighborhoods, towns, cities, and states can adopt to improve how children are protected from maltreatment. • A Community Partnership is not a program – rather, it is a way of working with families that helps services to be more inviting, needs-based, accessible, and relevant. • Community Partnerships incorporate preventi on strategies as well as those needed to address identified maltreatment. • The Community Partnership approach aims to blend the work and expertise of both professionals and residents to bolster supports for vulnerable families and children. • It’s an opportunity for community members to get involved in helping families in need, and in shaping the types of services and supports needed by these families. • It is a partnership of public and private agencies, systems, community members, and professionals who work to
