CWLA is inviting non-profit leaders and your key leadership staff to participate in this two-hour session, Assessing Our Capacity for Family Support and Prevention Programming, scheduled for Thursday, February 6 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern. To gain the most benefit from this interactive session, please make sure that you register as a team of at least 2 but not more than 4 persons. You will have the opportunity to work in breakout sessions with your team. There is limited capacity so please register early.
About the Session: There are a myriad of unique challenges and opportunities related to the development of family support and primary prevention programming for non-profit child welfare agencies. Many jurisdictions have been exploring a variety of approaches that prioritize more accessible, non-stigmatizing, and common-sense approaches to service delivery. There is a renewed emphasis on family engagement and involvement as agencies are being encouraged to collaborate with a wider range of community partners.
Non-profit child welfare agencies, especially those with long histories of providing deeper end services to children and families, are rethinking their purpose and the programs to align themselves more closely with public policy and the best practices related to family support and primary prevention. For many of these agencies, this is easier said than done and the practical reality of implementation can be daunting for an organization, its Board, its leadership team, and its frontline team practitioners. The adaptive and organizational culture changes are transformational but there is no established road map for how provider agencies might best achieve their goals.
This two-hour session will be a primer that frames the useful and practical questions on the road to redesign. The content will take participants beyond slogans and big picture themes and will emphasize a more detailed and operational approach to the task of redesigning an agency’s programs and practices.
The session will focus on The 7 P’s Exercise, which was developed by CWLA Senior Fellow, Paul DiLorenzo, during his thirty-five years plus of planning, developing, implementing, and managing community and neighborhood-based family support programming. Participants will be able to use the framework as a way of organizing their agency redesign journey. It is meant to make the planning process simple and straightforward. Though not meant to be an all-inclusive process, The 7 P’s Exercise will help an agency team create a “To Do” list for transformation, and at the same time, highlight existing strengths and opportunities that a provider might not have considered in their desire to become more primary prevention oriented.