PfS Academy Overview

The PfS Academy helps county Family and Children First Councils build capacity at the local level to identify and prioritize critical community issues and manage the investment of resources to address those issues.  County councils receive customized training and coaching to support their efforts to identify and achieve program-level and ultimately county-level results related to child, youth, and family well-being.

 

The PfS Academy helps councils:

• mobilize around issues related to families and children and engage them in action;

• reduce duplication of effort between and among local agencies;

• make better policy and program decisions that lead to better investments of public dollars;

• evaluate the impact of these investments with an eye toward accountability; and

• provide for long-term sustainability of effective programs and services.

The PfS Academy also helps agencies and organizations at the state level use the PfS Model to address a variety of cross-agency topics.