Montrose County’s Community Child Maltreatment Prevention
In order to better support families in Montrose County, and specifically the county’s West End community (including the towns of Nucla, Naturita, Bedrock, Redvale and Paradox), the West End Family Link Center applied for and received a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant in October 2017, putting the county on the front lines of planning efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect in Colorado. In addition to financial assistance, the grant included extensive support from Early Milestones Colorado, a nonprofit intermediary that serves as a statewide conduit for best practices and high-impact ideas that promote success for young children and families in Colorado.
To give families in Adams County the additional support they need, ECPAC applied for and received a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant in October 2017, putting the county on the front lines of planning efforts aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, and strengthening families. In addition to financial assistance from the Colorado Office of Early Childhood, the grant included extensive support from Early Milestones Colorado, a nonprofit intermediary that serves as a statewide conduit for best practices and high-impact ideas that promote success for young children and families in Colorado.
Coalition Partners
Child Maltreatment Prevention
Framework for Action
This framework is designed as a tool to guide strategic thinking at the state and local level, about resource investments to prevent child maltreatment and promote child well-being. As this tool is used collectively across the state, the resulting alignment of strategies will maximize the impact on shared outcomes.
Montrose County plans to prevent child maltreatment
Montrose County’s West End Community Child Maltreatment Prevention planning resulted in four primary goals and corresponding objectives:
Provide improved, high-quality services and fill identified gaps.
- By September 2019, increase and improve family, youth and child services in the West End to fill at least three existing gaps.
Build consistent healthy relationship education into existing services offered by family service agencies in the area.
- By September 2019, all agencies working within the Agency Collaboration will incorporate and provide healthy relationship education into their programs to create a better environment in the homes of children and families of the West End.
Coordination of services provided in the West End of Montrose County.
- By September 2019, eight agencies will have a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in place to streamline and coordinate children and family services in the West End.
Influence county policy-makers to advocate for additional resources/services in the West End of Montrose County
- By September 2019, develop a coalition of child and family advocates to bring a new voice and presence to advocate for West End services at every Montrose County Board of County Commissioners meetings.