06825Y0347-Community Partnerships Concept Paper

The New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) promotes the safety and well-being of the City’s children and families by providing child welfare, juvenile justice, and primary prevention services that promote and support child and family well-being, as well as by administering childcare funding. ACS’s Division of Child and Family Well-Being (CFWB) works to connect families and children to quality resources and opportunities they need to thrive and exercise self-determination, regardless of child welfare system involvement. CFWB focuses on leveraging resources, stakeholder relationships, and community and family strengths to drive toward greater equity and social justice and create conditions that foster well-being.

CFWB invests in and collaborates with eleven Community Partnerships (Partnerships), which have been operating since 2007. The Partnership model is coalition-based and grounded in community building, community organizing, and social equity principles. These coalition structures create space for residents, organizations, and ACS to connect, share information, and design and implement well-being strategies informed by community priorities.

This Concept Paper outlines ACS’ vision for strengthening the Partnership model. ACS will consider public feedback on this concept paper to inform a Request for Proposals (RFP), which ACS expects to release in the fall/winter of 2025. This concept paper outlines the background of the Partnership model, recent efforts to learn from the implementation of the model over the last five years and describes model improvements for potential inclusion in the upcoming RFP.

ACS welcomes your feedback and suggestions and looks forward to public comments.

Contact Information

All comments and feedback regarding this Concept Paper are due no later than 5:00 pm on April 21, 2025 . Comments should be emailed to CommunityPartnerships-CP@acs.nyc.gov.

To respond to the upcoming RFP and all other Human/Client Services RFPs, organizations must have an account and an approved HHS Prequalification Application in PASSPort. Proposals and Prequalification Applications will ONLY be accepted through PASSPort. If you do not have a PASSPort account or an approved HHS Prequalification Application in PASSPort, please visit www.nyc.gov/passport to get started.