The Challenge of Partnership
•Customer Identification
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•Agency Culture
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•History—both negative and positive
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•Assumptions
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•Accountability
Ask participants about whether they are currently working with child welfare agencies and to describe current relationships.  Possibly handout vendor/contractor chart.

History- of failed partnerships and contract/vendor relationship

Customer identification -- family/child

Agency Culture-- professional vs paraprofessional, strengths based vs a safety focus, bureaucracy vs. community based

Assumptions -- child welfare is the police, frcs are warm and fuzzy

Accountability -- funders, community, mandates, courts

Take a look at handouts from ppp to see if we can use any of them