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Interagency Collaboration

Many efforts to improve child welfare services or reform child welfare systems involve collaboration to enhance service delivery and ultimately improve outcomes for the children and families being served. Collaboration may occur among public agencies or between public and private agencies, communities, or families.

• Collaboration among public agencies
• Public/private collaborations
• Courts
• Juvenile justice agencies
• Health and mental health services
• Substance abuse services
• Domestic violence services
• TANF/public assistance
• Schools
• Related resources

Selected Resources National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement Offers training and technical assistance to improve management and operations, bolster organizational capacity, promote service integration, and develop supervisory and management systems; also coordinates, facilitates, and evaluates onsite training and technical assistance across the National Resource Centers.

Updated on June 10, 2008