Working Across the Prevention Continuum to Strengthen Families

This brief can help child welfare professionals establish a common understanding among community
partners, legislators, agency staff, caregivers, youth, and other partners about what an integrated, comprehensive, prevention-focused approach looks like along a three-tiered prevention continuum. It provides an overview of the prevention continuum, key partners who need to be actively involved in collaboration at each level, and what it means to be aligned across prevention levels to offer seamless services. It also provides jurisdictional examples of services across the continuum.