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		<description>R.O.C.K. Mat-Su (Raising Our Children with Kindness) is a cross-sector collaborative of community members joining together to promote family resilience and reduce child maltreatment in Alaska’s Mat-Su Borough. 

R.O.C.K. Mat-Su adopted a strategy to coordinate and optimize family contact in 2017 to tackle the systemic challenges involved in providing family contact services for children in out of home placement in the Mat-Su. R.O.C.K. Mat-Su partners came together to form the Family Contact Improvement Partnership (FCIP). The ultimate goal of FCIP is that &quot;community partners unite so that families and children engage in meaningful healthy, culturally centered contact that is best for the child.</description>
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