Community Partnership Agreement

The Community Partnership Agreement (CPA) is the annual contract between the County and the State of Maryland to provide programs and services. The Community Partnership Agreement for Children and Families represent the next critical step in the evolution of Systems Reform in Maryland. Community Partnerships expand the scope of local systems reform efforts to encompass a broader, more comprehensive integration of children and family services. In developing a Community Partnership, the Department of Family Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families was afforded a unique opportunity to design collaborative, community-based proposals based on the resources, assets and needs of Prince George's County. The programs and initiatives operating under the umbrella of the Community Partnership Agreement are:

After School Programs

Provides after school enrichment programs that promote positive youth development in a structured, supervised setting. Program Activities include academic enrichment in reading, math, arts, education, and a variety of sports activities.

Community Services Initiative

The Community Services Initiative (CSI) Program helps families with children who are at risk for residential placement in an in state or out of state facilities or families with children who are already placed in an instate or out of state residential facilities.

Diversion services are wrap around services to prevent an in state and/or out of state placement and keep the child in the community.

Return services are wrap around services provided to assist in transition of youth to Prince Georges County from an in state or out of state placement. Wrap around services are designed to focus on the family and child strengths and to find solutions to their problems so they can remain together or reunite.

Family Emergency Shelter

Provides short-term emergency shelter, counseling and case management services to homeless families in Intensive Family Preservation program. Services address issues contributing toward homelessness and to secure permanent housing.

Family Preservation Program

The Intensive Family Preservation Program provides a short-term, intensive in-home service for families in crisis whose children are at imminent risk of out-of-home placement.

Caseworkers provide in-home services and link families to resources to enhance the family's ability to better protect and nurture their children and prevent out-of-home placement. For additional information please click on the links below.

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www.NFPN.org
www.preventchildabuse.org

Family Preservation Stepdown Services

Provides extended, less intensive services to families completing Intensive Family Preservation Services who are still in need of on-going clinical services.

Healthy Families Prince George's

Healthy Families Prince George's is a voluntary program that provides support to first time mothers under the age of 25, and to the children's fathers. Services include prenatal support, intensive home visiting and mentoring services.

Healthy Families Prince George's is designed to improve birth outcomes, promote healthy child development and enhance family functioning through the provision of supportive services that synchronize existing prenatal, pediatric and mental health service delivery and assist the child and parents to realize their potential. Healthy Families Prince George's works with parents until the child reaches the age of five.

In support of the Healthy Families Prince George's Program, Adam's House provides medical assessment, treatment, job training, parenting classes and other support to fathers.

Are you a first time mother or father in need of support and other services? For referral or information regarding Healthy Families Prince George's, please contact the HealthLine toll free at 1-888-561-4049.

Contact the Adam's House directly at (301) 324-2996.

Kinship Care

Addresses the therapeutic and concrete needs of kinship care facilities as they work towards the permanency of the children in their home and the stability of the total family unit. Must be referred through the Department of Social Servicesor the Department of Family Services.

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