C3 - North Carolina’s Approach to Building Capacity for Family First Implementation

Achieving healthier families and communities is a top priority for North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services. Recent state legislation to reform the state’s child welfare system was enacted in 2017, followed by the Family First Prevention Services Act of 2018. Both offer transformative opportunities to improve outcomes for children and families through comprehensive systemic assessments, which identified opportunities to reshape our policy, practice, and organizational structure. This workshop session will highlight North Carolina’s collaborative efforts to engage legislative, state, county, and community partners and stakeholders in leveraging our existing child welfare reform efforts with integration and implementation of Family First.

Presenters: Alycia Blackwell-Pittman and Lisa Tucker Cauley, North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Raleigh, NC; Yolanda Green-Rogers, Chapin Hall at University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and Mark McDaniel, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, Chapel Hill, NC

Dubin and Scott Shannon, Family Design Resources, Inc., Harrisburg, PA