High Performance Partnerships

To effectively strengthen families and communities, public and community based organizations need to work together towards shared outcomes and move beyond a simple vendor/contractor relationship. Strategies' High Performance Partnership Initiative provides training, facilitation, and technical assistance to emerging and existing public/private partnerships in six key areas:

1. Trust
2. Shared Values
3. Organizational Culture Change
4. Joint Resource Development
5. Integrated Learning Systems
6. Systems, Structure, and Accountability

The High Performance Partnership concept was originally developed by the National Academy of Public Administration and has a focus on producing significant results supported by "a structure for individual organizations to share authority, resources and accountability for achieving a mutually decided goal." This model, along with other stakeholder interviews and feedback from pilot projects, has provided a framework from which Strategies' approach has grown.

While this approach can be applied to many different areas of public/private partnership, Strategies specializes in promoting the implementation of Differential Response through community partnerships between family support and county agencies. This type of partnership was a key recommendation of California's Child Welfare Stakeholders process and in legislation known as AB636.

For more information about High Performance Partnership, please contact Strategies Central Region.