2. WHERE DID THE COLLABORATIVE
MOVEMENT COME FROM?
1989 1993 1994 1995
Congress DC develops state
Lashawn Class plan with the center
enacts federal piece as the
Action Lawsuit Family CFSA placed
creation of the
against the
District’s child Prevention Healthy in receivership
Families/Thriving
welfare system and Support Communities
Act Collaboratives
3. ESTABLISHING THE COLLABORATIVES
& THE COLLABORATIVE COUNCIL
1996 1997 1998 1999
•Georgia Avenue
Collaborative awarded
•Three additional planning grant
Collaboratives awarded •Eight Collaboratives
•Dr. Jerome Miller planning grants awarded service contracts
named first General totaling $6 million
•First 4 Collaboratives
Receiver awarded service •Collaborative Council
•RFP solicited first contracts from CFSA organized under DC
Collaborative Agenda
•First City Wide •Community Care Pilot for
partnerships, 4 Conference, “Building A Homeless Families
Collaboratives Community Partnership implemented by
awarded planning for Children” Edgewood/Brookland and
grants Columbia Heights/Shaw
4. ESTABLISHING THE COLLABORATIVES
& THE COLLABORATIVE COUNCIL
2000 2001 2003
•1998–2000 – Family Collaborative
Group Conferencing Council
Integrated • DHS Fatherhood
incorporated as a Initiative
•CFSA awards 501c3 organization
$110,000 to Implemented
Collaborative Council Community Care • Citywide
for evaluation Homeless Initiative database system
•Mid Northeast implemented by all – ETO
Collaborative exits Collaboratives
5. MOVING TOWARDS THE PRESENT
2004 2005 2006 2007
•Independent
Retrospective Study
• Council awarded (random sample case •Federal DHHS
grants to develop review) conducted Fatherhood grant
evaluation •Truancy Initiative awarded.
framework and Implemented – Byer •Collaboratives took
and YTRIP lead in closing DC
implement Efforts
•Assisted Katrina Village family shelter
to Outcomes families at DC
Armory
6. THE MOVEMENT TODAY
2008 2010 2011 2012
•Council published
“Responding to Gang,
•Partnership for Crew and Youth Violence •Federal Fatherhood
Community Based in the District of grant awarded for 3
Services established Columbia: A Blueprint years
•Collaboratives for Action”. First two •DC General Housing
aligned with Wards recommendations Initiative
resulted in legislation by
•North Capitol exits City Council Implemented
•South Washington exits
7. THE COLLABORATIVE STRATEGY
IN CONTEXT
Traditional Approach Collaborative Approach
Workers & services are centralized Workers & services are located near families
Practice model is strengths-based and family-
Assessment & service planning is deficit-based
centered
Services are usually accessed only after a crisis, limited Emphasis on voluntary, early intervention services
resources available for prevention supported by public funds
Services are flexible and non-categorical; workers &
Services are categorical and often duplicative
services respect the diversity of families
Workers operate in traditional professional structure
with little partnership across professional disciplinary Interdisciplinary teams support families
lines
Communities become partners in service systems
Approached emerge through top-down process
and ensure priorities reflect community needs
8. MOVING FORWARD
Enhancing community capacity, one of
the original goals of the Collaborative
Movement, is vital to the health and
The decentralization of child welfare
well-being of the Collaboratives, its
services in 1996 opened the door for
partners and the communities we
services in neighborhoods across the
serve. Examples of community capacity
city. Neighborhood-based services not
building are mini-grant projects,
only improve access to families but
identifying community needs and goals
allow for the formation of partnerships
through a variety of forums, training
with other community and faith based
community members and community-
organizations, schools, businesses and
based partners on a range of skills and
other public agencies.
issues and assisting partners in
administrative, programmatic and
financial development
11. FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
•Established citywide 1st •Established Men and Boys •Expanded Family Support
comprehensive database Program, Quality Centers
system (ETO) Assurance Division, and •Established PCBS, gang
•Emphasis on outcomes Community Engagement and crew work east of the
•Collaborative received Division river, and Ward 8 Drug
over $1 million in •Expanded programming Free Coalition
increased funding as and increased staff •Assisted with System
result of advocacy •Implemented Byer Transformation Initiative
Truancy Reduction model
12. FAR SOUTHEAST FAMILY
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
•Established partnership •Established homes buyers
with Department of club •DC General Exit
Mental Health •Safe Summer Initiative Initiative
•Established Family expanded
Support Center in public •Department of Health •Establishes First
housing complex to Tobacco funding Ward 8 Health
provide family supportive •Expands Family Support Awareness Day and
services Centers to schools Bike Challenge
•Created Child Abuse and •CCDC Workforce
Neglect Prevention Development Partnership
•Launches social
Education campaign media on Facebook
and Twitter;
upgrades website
14. GEORGIA AVENUE
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
1998 1999 2000 2002 2003
•Incorporated as
a D.C. nonprofit
Began asset with 501(c)3
mapping and needs Begins status.
assessment in Ward Initiated a
implementation • Opened a
1 and capacity
of “Housing fatherhood
building & family- Family Support
focused services in First” Center on program
Petworth Georgia Ave
15. GEORGIA AVENUE
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
•Assisted Katrina
families at the DC •Implement a high-fidelity
Armory wrap-around services •Expanded prevention
model for youth with
•Opened Family serious emotional partnerships to address
Support Center on disorders and their risks associated with
Kennedy St families, which is aimed abuse and neglect
•Co-located with CFSA at keeping youth safely in •Formed a Parents
their own communities. Anonymous group
in-home unit to Contract administered
implement PCBS •Implemented youth
through HFTCCC. violence prevention
16. GEORGIA AVENUE
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2010 2011 2012
•Partners with Progressive
Life, DYRS and select
providers in a Center for
Excellence step-down group
•Works with DYRS Region home model for youth
2 providers to introduce released from New
Beginnings or residential
•Expanded prevention family support for youth treatment.
partnerships to address who are released from
•Forms a network of
risks associated with New Beginnings stakeholders to create a
abuse and neglect •Implements “Mental plan that addresses root
•Partners with CH/SFSC Health First Aid” training causes of youth substance
on youth violence to enable staff and lay use.
prevention for wards 1 people to assist someone •Expands school partnerships
and 4 in early stages of to address truancy.
developing a mental •Implements evidence-based
health problem or in a training to strengthen
mental health crisis. parents’ skills in preventing
middle-school aged youth
substance abuse.
18. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS/SHAW
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
•Q Street Office opened
•Asset Mapping •Family Group Conferencing Integrated
•Future Search Conference- •CFSA Unit
Exploration of Models •Community Care Pilot for Family
•Explored options for family Homelessness
involvement (FGC) •Community space work began (Girard
•Gaps in services identified (LEP Playground)
communities) •Prayer Breakfast
•Male focused work began (Fatherhood)
19. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS/SHAW
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
•Family Group Counseling •Gang Work Continue •Adult Education Pilot (ALLI)
Institute (GIP, Peace Festival) •Truancy Byer Intervention
•1st Annual training Model
•Weed & Seed •Second Responder model
Conference
•Solutions Focus work
•Hot Properties introduced to city
•Digital Community & •GIP model replicated
began
Digital Access Fund •FGC Training for public
•Taskforce on Truancy agencies
(School based work) •PRO-Urban Youth DC •Emergency Management
20. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS/SHAW
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2006 2007 2008 2009
•Expansion (immigrant
•National FGC youth) •Strengthening Ward
Convening •Latino Fatherhood One Together (SWOT)
•International FGC •Citywide Coordinating •Elimination of PUY &
Networking Council CCCYVP funding
•Immigration NCIC •Language Access •Implementation of
•3D Compliance Council Training Institute
•Economic Self •Pro-Urban Youth •Implementation GIP
Sufficiency Expansion model in Seattle
21. COLUMBIA HEIGHTS/SHAW
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2010 2011 2012
•Integrated Gang •Peace Keeping
•Office of Juvenile Certification Delegate to El
Justice Delinquency Implementation- Salvador
Prevention Funding DYRS, DPR, •Unrestricted Funding
Montgomery County, from Private
•You’ve Got Talent Prince George’s Foundations (Herb
•National Night Out County Block, Walmart)
•STI-DHS Funding •Justice Grant •Truancy Prevention
Administration Grant (JGA)
Funding
23. EAST RIVER FAMILY
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE
1996 1997 2000
Managed and
funded by Marshall Incorporated as a
Heights Community CFSA 501c3 organization
Development Implementation
Organization Grant Awarded Introduction of
Board of Trustees
Funded by AECF
24. EAST RIVER FAMILY
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
• Introduced Youth
Organization began offering programming
case management services
• Summer Youth programs
Emergency Transitional
Housing introduced
introduced
Mini-grants introduces
• Hip Hop Summit
introduced
ETO introduced
• Kids to Camp Initiative
FDC Program introduced introduced
25. EAST RIVER FAMILY
STRENGTHENING COLLABORATIVE
2006 2008 2010 2011 2012
New drive to empower families &
New Mission Statement introduced •Co-location of CFSA
staff
Healthy Marriages/Strong Families
Initiative •Received grants
Second Responder Program
from private
introduced organizations
•Awarded grant to
Watch DOGS Program introduced •Worked with major manage 3 programs
partners including from DC Office on
Programs geared towards family
empowerment such as Financial DCPNI and Ophelia Aging
Literacy and Tax Education classes Egypt Center
•Amended Mission
introduced •Language Access Statement to
Weed & Seed introduced Compliant include “seniors”
New Communities Grant awarded •New office location
27. EDGEWOOD/BROOKLAND
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
1996 1998 2000 2001 2003
•Incorporated and held
•Brookland Manor 1st Board Meeting
Support Center and •Implemented Emergency
begins serving families Assessment Program
•CFSA details 4 Social •Expanded & began
Workers to E/BFSC serving target area
•Community Care grant, formerly served by the
My Community, My Mid-Northeast
CFSA Planning Children grant, and DC Collaborative
grant is awarded Covering Kids grants •Carver Terrace and
awarded Trinidad Support Centers
•Launched mini-grant are opened
program •Adopt-a-Family holiday
campaign launched
28. EDGEWOOD/BROOKLAND
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2004 2005 2006 2007 2009
•Implemented •Began provision of •Implemented youth
Family Team services to youth violence prevention
Coordination aftercare population programming
Initiative •Developed Full •Implemented Truancy
•Implemented City- Service Community Byer Intervention
School Model at Model in Browne
wide Fatherhood Browne Educational
Initiative Campus
29. EDGEWOOD/BROOKLAND
FAMILY SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE
2010 2011 2012
•Awarded Community Services Block •Relocated main office to 200 K
Grant from UPO to provider Job Street, NW and opened satellite
Readiness and Placement office in St. Augustine’s
•Expanded and assumed •Awarded funding for TANF
responsibility for all of Ward 5 Employment Program by DHS
•Expanded and began serving all •Closed original site at 1345
Ward 6 communities Saratoga Ave, NE
