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Facilitation of Multisystem Collaboration
No agency, system, or professional discipline alone possesses the knowledge or
authority to protect children from abuse and neglect. Rather, the protection
of children depends on a community's capacity to improve and coordinate the
work of its social service and legal systems and to educate and involve its
citizens. NCFC has worked with many communities across the country to
strengthen multisystem collaboration and to increase community involvement
to prevent child maltreatment.
The multisystem collaboration process provides a forum for conflict resolution,
education, consensus building, and mutual accountability among the systems,
agencies, and disciplines responsible for child protection. NCFC assists agency
and system partners to conduct a multisystem case analysis that demonstrates
how they are working together to report, investigate, and treat child abuse and
neglect. NCFC's assistance in facilitation of multisystem collaboration has
resulted in:
- protocols, memoranda of understanding, and other agreements that improve
collaborative work on behalf of abused and neglected children;
- documentation of the types and amounts of resources needed by involved systems
and agencies to improve client outcomes;
- additional resources allocated to child abuse and neglect protection efforts;
- improved sharing of information among systems involved in child protection;
- the development of community outcome measures, including baselines and
benchmarks, to track the community's progress in protecting children from
maltreatment; and
- increased community awareness of and accountability for child abuse prevention.
Contact
For more information about the consultation services offered by NCFC, contact the Intake and Project Development Manager at 978/365-5068 or e-mail ncfc@cwla.org.
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