Partnerships for Success is a holistic and strategic approach to building a community’s capacity to prevent and respond effectively to child and adolescent problem behaviors while promoting positive youth development. Partnerships for Success Guiding Principles:

1. Involving and Engaging the Entire Community:
Partnerships for Success is concerned with facilitating change at the county level. PfS leaders must strive to ensure that all of the local constituencies are represented in PfS activities in order to lead to community investment in sustainable solutions to significant community problems involving youth.

2. Balancing a Holistic Continuum of Approaches:
A continuum of services includes primary prevention, early intervention and systems of care. Primary prevention includes programs available to the entire community BEFORE youth problem behaviors occur. Early intervention programs are provided for youth who show some risk factors, but before those problems become entrenched. Systems of care are provided to youth with serious and chronic problem behaviors.

3. Making Data-Informed Decisions:
Data is assembled to help PfS determine how the programs are working. Data is used in four ways: (1) to determine the magnitude of problem behaviors in the community; (2) to identify levels of risk, protection and assets that exist within the community; (3) to determine best practices related to implementation decisions; and (4) to continually evaluate the progress of the PfS initiative.


According to the 2004-2005 Progress Report from the Partnership for Success Academy, in 2004-2005, FCF Councils who are no longer receiving PfS funding leveraged $35,615,179 that they are investing in evidence-based and promising practices to impact their highest priorities for children and families. The addition of Guernsey County brings the total number of PfS counties in Ohio to thirty-nine.