Company Profile
Brevard C.A.R.E.S.
Company Overview
Brevard Family Partnership, Inc. (BFP) is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, founded in 2004, to bid on and become the Lead Agency delivering child welfare services in Brevard County, Florida. BFP has a proven history of high performance, positive outcomes and efficient operations through its strong community partnerships, innovations, and focus upon excellence. BFP is a progressive organization, continually planning for the future through the use of forecasting and analyzing current and emerging trends to proactively implement systemic changes and improvements.
BFP’s mission is to “Protect Children, Strengthen Families and Change Lives” through the prevention of child abuse and the operation and management of a comprehensive, integrated, community-based system of care for abused, abandoned and neglected children, and their families. BFP collaborates with a local provider network of over 50 child and family-serving human service agencies to successfully deliver, manage, and coordinate an integrated child welfare system of care. BFP’s vision for community-based care includes maintaining and strengthening, whenever possible, the ties between children, families, and communities and causing as little disruption as possible to their lives. In partnership with the Brevard Board of County Commissioners, community, elected officials, volunteers, donors and stakeholders BFP has built a nationally recognized child welfare system of care.
In response to the community priority to implement an aggressive front-end prevention and diversion program that would reach families before the stressors they experience result in verified findings of child abuse, BFP designed, implemented, scaled and operates a proprietary Evidence Based Practice Program, Brevard C.A.R.E.S. Brevard C.A.R.E.S. serves as the pilot site for national replication, delivering child abuse prevention and diversion services for at risk children and their families in the local System of Care.
The National Center for Innovation and Excellence (NCFIE) serves as the research, training and technical assistance arm of BFP. The NCFIE is a dynamic community of thought leaders and experts dedicated to developing youth, strengthening families, and building strong communities by developing resources, delivering services, providing technical assistance, consultation and training. Services are available to community-based agencies, localities, and state and county managed child and family service systems that are seeking to implement, manage or enhance their Systems of Care. The NCFIE specializes in family-centered, youth-driven system reform initiatives, scaling innovations to excellence, privatization and high-fidelity wraparound.
Family Allies, Inc. (FA), the most recent enterprise of BFP, was formed in 2017 to deliver case management services for the children and families entrusted to the care of BFP. Case management is a collaborative process of assessment, planning, facilitation, service coordination, evaluation, and advocacy to meet the needs of children, youth and family's to promote quality and positive outcomes.
Each of the BFP subsidiaries is led by an Executive Director and governed by a local Board of Directors.