National Behavioral Health Collective to Improve Services for Children and Families
A new Children’s Behavioral Health Collective (the CBH Collective), of which Social Current is a…
Training and Consulting
Family and Community Systems
When children and families thrive, it benefits all of us. That’s why we have a shared responsibility across communities to nurture their health and well-being. All families need help sometimes, and occasionally families carry burdens that require support. Those burdens can range from grief and loss to unemployment to lack of child care to unaddressed behavioral health needs. Families do better when they aren’t carrying these loads alone. Policy, practice, and communications solutions can help offload those burdens and bolster support for child and family well-being. These solutions are a critical contribution to the social sector and help communities to reach their full potential.
Our Goals
We help communities and social sector organizations:
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Identify preventive, upstream solutions to difficult problems
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Reduce child abuse and neglect by fostering protective factors and building trust between systems and communities
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Increase public will to invest in keeping families strong and together
Our Focus
Through technical assistance and consultation, we examine relevant data, apply best practices, center learning, and create community-based models for doing things differently. The solutions we find are based on root causes and require shifting power to the community – the true experts on what is needed to help children and families thrive.
Our Approach
Our approach to building child and family well-being is based on our values and applies unified, intrepid, just, and purposeful principles to everything we do.
The solutions we co-create with you are equitable, community-led pathways to address the problems you face that integrate and elevate voices of lived experience. We are constantly bringing you real-time knowledge and resources, learning alongside you, and documenting new discoveries that will challenge the status quo, disrupt systems, and improve the lives of people in your community.
About Our Training and Consulting
Our Initiatives
Within Our Reach
Promotes implementation of policy and practice recommendations from the federal Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities through a policy education toolkit and media messaging that shifts the narrative toward greater support of families.Additional Initiatives
The Well-Being Measurement Framework project improves outcomes for children and families by developing a new framework and shared definition for child and family well-being.
Mandated Reporting Reform involves developing a new mandated reporter curriculum and training that addresses implicit bias, disproportionality, and aligns with nationally recognized best practices.
Supporting Children, Youth, and Families Affected by the Drug Crisis: Recruiting and Developing Peer Recovery Coaches supports children, youth, and families who have suffered victimization as a result of a family member or caregiver’s substance use disorder by recruiting, training, and certifying peer recovery coaches who have lived experience.
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