Communities of Practice (CoP) can help bridge professionals across sectors and geographic areas who share the common goal of preventing, screening, and treating child maltreatment while improving outcomes for youth who have experienced maltreatment.<\/p>\n
The concept of CoPs comes from the corporate world and in recent years has become popular in the health care and human services sectors. A CoP can be defined as a \u201c\u2026group of people who share a concern, set of problems or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis\u201d (Wenger et al., 2002, p 6). A CoP can have a broad or narrow scope depending on its purpose. CoPs \u201c\u2026can be used to provide some guidance for the development of groups, teams, and networks\u201d (Li et al., 2009).<\/p>\n
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