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Aligning Systems to Advance Family and Community Well-Being: A Partnership Playbook for Community Action and Human Services Agencies

This playbook outlines the ways Community Action and human services agencies worked together to meet the pandemic challenge—what worked well, obstacles and difficulties, and lessons learned to inform the path forward, partnering to achieve a more equitable recovery. It also explains how communities have leveraged opportunities to partner on approaches that hold the promise of…

The playbook, developed by the American Public Human Services Association and Community Action Partnership, outlines how public human services and Community Action Agencies have collaborated to support family and community well-being, particularly in response to the COVID-19 crisis.

It details collaborative models, lessons learned, and strategies for advancing equitable recovery, with a focus on whole family supports, employment and training, dismantling structural inequities, and frameworks for measuring partnership effectiveness.