Approaches to Collaborative Partnerships in the Child Welfare Community Collaborations Initiatives

The Child Welfare Community Collaborations (CWCC) initiative is designed to mobilize communities to develop and evaluate multi-system collaboratives that address local barriers and provide a continuum of services to prevent child abuse and neglect. This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) brief describes the approaches to collaborative partnerships used in CWCC projects and is one of a series of products the evaluation team will produce as part of the cross-site process evaluation. Throughout this brief, OPRE explores the community collaborations (i.e., “partnerships”) that were part of the foundation of the CWCC initiative’s approach to preventing child abuse and neglect.