Children and Family Futures (CFF) provides training and technical assistance to tribes, states, counties, and community agencies as they navigate the complexities of funding and sustaining family-centered services. CFF has over 20 years of experience providing expert consultation and effective tools and strategies to help sites fund and sustain innovation that benefit families affected by substance use disorders.

The ability to sustain innovative practices over time does not simply rely upon having steady funding streams; it requires institutionalizing new ways of practice into the very fabric of the process. Early in the life of a collaborative initiative, cross-systems partners should plan for how the innovative practice strategies will permanently become the way of doing business. Communities must ­find ways to access the full range of existing funding resources from multiple agencies that serve children and families affected by parental substance use disorders and child maltreatment, such as child welfare, substance use and mental health disorder treatment, early childhood education, health care, home visiting, and other social service programs.

Children and Family Futures has decades of experience and expertise in assisting communities to develop inventories of funding streams and develop the diverse cross-systems partnerships necessary to assist in their sustainability efforts.