Children's Public Private Partnership

In Partnership with odhs, cp3 engaged a local douglas county cbo (fara) to launch safe at home. Cp3 continues to provide implementation support to safe at home in douglas and marion counties. The safe at home program helps children exit foster care to reunify with their birth families by providing volunteers to monitor child safety during trial reunification. Lack of safety assurance is often a barrier to child-family reunification.

Cp3 worked with marion county child welfare to develop a family time transportation pilot to provide paid transportation to child-family visits for children and families. More child-family visits reinforce attachment and can lead to faster family reunification. In 2023, we suspended efforts to recruit volunteer drivers and began analysis and partner outreach, which led to this paid solution. (in early 2024, we designed the program, contracted with a transportation vendor and the pilot has been underway since march 2024.)

Stable housing is an odhs requirement for child-family reunification. In Partnership with odhs, cp3 worked with a) the iron tribe network (itn) to replicate their group housing model in marion-polk counties. We worked with itn in marion toward signing a data use agreement (dua) and searched for a rental property to open a program in douglas county. Cp3 also worked with b) the corporation for supportive housing (csh) to replicate year 2 of their keeping families together (kft) supportive housing model in marion county. In early 2024, willamette health council (whc) took program leadership for kft. Cp3 continues to participate in monthly meetings.

Other program services areas include revisiting efforts in douglas county (and hosting a community building session in mar 2024) to develop our strategy going forward, pursuing family unification (fup) vouchers for douglas county in Partnership with housing authority of douglas county (hadco), and supporting dialogue between rural schools in douglas county and odhs.