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Work Plan Detail B -- Item 3, Services to Families to Protect Child(ren) in Home and Prevent Removal and
Item 4, Risk of Harm to Child
Goal: To improve this outcome by January 2004
B2 ACTION STEPS:
Develop and implement Community Partnerships for the Protection of Children (CPPC) in
representative counties.
Core strategies developed by CPPC and Annie Casey, are:
1). An individualized course of action for each child and family identified by community members as being at
substantial risk of child abuse and neglect.
2). A network of neighborhood and community supports.
3). New policies, practices, roles and responsibilities within the public CPS agency.
4). A collaborative decision-making capacity to guide and sustain the partnership.
Steps for fulfilling these strategies continue and include:
Identify community partners. (Achieved)
Strategy development, resource development, partnership building and outcome and planning. (Achieved in the
9 counties)
Provide support (Achieved)
Help hub coordinators identify and apply for available grant money for CPPC hub resource development.
(Achieved)
Determine how best to incorporate an annual qualitative case review on a representative sample of case records.
Achieved
START
DATE
COMPLETION
DATE
RESPONSIBLE
PERSON(S)
MEASURABLE
BENCHMARKS
June 2002 Jan. 2004 Representatives of DFCS and Family
Connections, Children's Trust, Prevent
Partners identified and committed to development of
strategies.
Child Abuse in Georgia and allied agencies, Nine county implementation of phase I that includes
CPPC community partners.
coordinated and functioning hub neighborhoods.
Safe Futures – A Plan for Program Improvement
Georgia Department of Human Resources
November, 2004 Quarter 8 - Work Plan B Page 1