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Local/Global Partnerships

Local

The Center has engaged with North Carolina families through multiple projects over the years. Since 2012, the NC Division of Social Services has funded the Family-Centered Practice Project, through which CFFACE provides training, technical assistance, and evaluation that advances cultural safety, family leadership, community partnerships, and inclusive planning.

Previous projects supporting family engagement conducted by the Center or Center Director, Dr. Pennell, include:

CFFACE is advised by a Networking Alliance that helps us stay on track with our principles and builds connections to opportunities and resources for the Center and Networking Alliance members.

 

Global

Our family engagement work in North Carolina is informed and reinforced by national and international collaborations, and the Center has made substantial contributions to these exchanges. Nationally, the Center contributed to the development and testing of model fidelity measures (Washington, DC—Burford, Pennell, & Edwards, 2011; Pennsylvania—Rauktis, Fitzpatrick, Jung, & Pennell, 2012) and to practice guidance and policy in different fields (e.g., child welfare—American Humane Association, 2010; juvenile justice—Pennell, Shapiro, & Spigner, 2011; domestic violence—Pennell & Kim, 2010; education—Pennell & Rikard, 2013).

International collaborations connect the Center to wider movements on family engagement, restorative justice, indigenous practices, women and children’s rights, and responsible fatherhood. These collaborations include Australia and the United Kingdom (Pennell, Burford, Connolly, & Morris, 2011), Canada (Pennell & Burford, 2009), New Zealand (Pennell, Maxwell, & Nash, 2012), and Israel (Hall, Pennell, & Rikard, in process). CFFACE has been working with an international team in Guatemala to increase family group solutions in response to the country’s overreliance first on intercountry adoptions and now on institutional care of children (Rotabi, Pennell, Roby, & Bunkers, 2012). This project has already led to the piloting of family group conferencing in courts and institutions in Guatemala and to the incorporation of the model into academic curricula (Roby, Pennell, Rotabi, Bunkers, & de Uclés, under review).