Collaborative Systems Change Consulting
You work across agencies. We help you build a shared approach.
Children and Family Futures helps you develop a plan your partners can commit to and your teams can carry out. We lead planning sessions, train your teams, and help you work through problems as you make changes.
30
Years working across systems
4,600+
Technical assistance requests on collaboration since 2016
13,600+
Collaborative practice materials shared since 2016
The Challenge
No single agency can do this work alone
Children, parents, and families affected by substance use and mental health disorders are served by child welfare, courts, treatment providers, health care, and community partners at the same time. Improving their outcomes takes a coordinated response.
Shared families, separate systems
Each agency identifies needs, provides services, and measures success in its own way. Without shared priorities, the same family can receive conflicting plans and timelines.
A shared plan needs follow-through
Partners can agree on a plan while staff still follow different procedures. Teams need practical tools and training to change how they communicate and deliver services.
Collaboration competes with daily demands
Each agency has its own responsibilities. Maintaining relationships and following up on shared decisions take time alongside the work teams are already doing.
How We Can Help
Practical help for collaborative work
Planning
Agree on priorities for change
CFF brings partners together for strategic planning and systems improvement. We help you develop a practical plan for changes in policy and practice.
Implementation
Work through problems as they arise
CFF coaches your teams through implementation. We help you respond to practical problems and adjust the approach as you learn what works.
Training
Build skills your teams can use
Prepare new staff and build skills across your workforce. CFF tailors training to the work your teams do so they can apply what they learn.
Facilitation
Work through decisions with your partners
CFF leads partner meetings and develops policy and practice resources to help your teams carry out the decisions they make together.
Why CFF
We know what collaboration takes.
CFF developed its framework for collaboration through decades of work with hundreds of agency partnerships. We bring that experience to help you organize your cross-agency team, improve communication among partners, and coordinate services for children, parents, and families.
How It Works
What happens after you reach out
You do not need a finished plan to start. We will agree on the work together before an engagement begins.
Reach out
Use the inquiry form to tell us what you want to change and where you could use help.
Talk it through
We talk through your goals, the partners involved, and what is realistic for your team and timeline.
Agree on the scope
Together, we identify where CFF can help and define what the engagement will include.
Work begins
We get started with your team and partners, virtually, in person, or both. As the work develops, we adjust the approach together.
Common Questions
Working with CFF
Next Step
Tell us what you are working toward.
Share a little about your goals or the challenge you are working on. We will follow up to talk through how CFF could help.
