Community Partnerships for Protecting Children

What is the Community Partnership for Protecting Children (CPPC)?

• CPPC is an approach that neighborhoods, towns, cities, and states can adopt to improve how children are protected from abuse and neglect.
• It aims to blend the work and expertise of families, professionals and residents to bolster supports for vulnerable families and children.
• Community Partnership is not a program...it is a way of working with families that helps services to be more inviting, strengths and needs-based, accessible and relevant.
• It incorporates prevention strategies as well as strategies needed to address abuse and neglect, once identified.

What We Offer:

1. Family Team Decision-Making
2. Community/Neighborhood Networking
3. Child Protection Services Policies and Practice Change
4. Shared Decision-Making

Each Community Partnership (CPPC) establishes a local decision-making body that reviews the effectiveness of community child protection and engages community members to participate in and support the initiative.

Each site forms a decision-making group to create the structure of the local partnership.
This group takes responsibility for:

• Setting the ongoing direction of the partnership;
• Leading efforts to reach out to neighborhood residents, parents, local faith institutions, and schools;
• Informing the broader public about the purposes and benefits of community child protection;
• Self-evaluation that includes the assessment of Quality Service Reviews.

If you would like to become involved with CPPC, attached is a Statement of Commitment. Please return the completed statement to Jessi Rich, 127 N. Main St., Mt. Pleasant, IA 52641

CPPC of Henry County