Family-Community Relationship Network
Shows the people, groups, and organizations connected to the case.
Family-Community Relationship Genogram
Community Roles
Clarifies who provides support, services, influence, or coordination.
Household Context
Keeps family members visible within the wider community system.
Support Pathways
Maps how help, referrals, and relationships move through the network.
Service Touchpoints
Identifies schools, healthcare, faith, nonprofit, or social-service links.
Relationship Strength
Leaves room to mark strong, weak, or strained connections.
Shared Assessment View
Helps teams discuss the same community picture during planning.
Editable Network Map
Can be updated as services, roles, or contacts change.
Map a family’s connections with healthcare, neighborhood, faith, and community resources using this genogram on Creately Clinical.
About the Family-Community Relationship Genogram
This family-community relationship genogram places relatives and community resources in one shared view, helping families and professionals recognize where healthcare, local support, social participation, and community partnerships are already available.
The example begins with Lisa and James Martinez and their daughter, Sofie. It then adds three external resources: Pine Street Clinic, Neighbor Support Group, and Grace Community Church.
Four labeled arrows clarify how the connections work. James is connected to Pine Street Clinic through healthcare, Lisa receives local support through the neighborhood group, and Sofie participates in a community activity at Grace Community Church. A community link between the neighborhood group and church shows that resources can also support one another.
- Combines three family members and three community resources
- Shows healthcare, neighborhood, and faith-community connections
- Identifies the person connected with each resource
- Makes existing support and partnership pathways easier to discuss and coordinate
Who Should Use This Example?
This family-community relationship genogram can help professionals, community teams, and families organize formal and informal support connections in one clear view.
Social workers and case managers
Document services, referrals, support networks, and resource coordination around a family.
Community-health and care teams
Connect family members with clinics, public services, and other health or wellbeing resources.
Educators, nonprofits, and faith-community teams
Map participation, partnerships, and practical pathways of support.
Individuals and families
Create a visual record of the organizations and groups they rely on and update it together.
Symbols Used in This Genogram
Standard person symbols map the family, while diamonds and labeled arrows represent the external resources and connections used in this example.
Square
Male family member
Circle
Female family member
Marriage line
Connects married partners
Parent–child line
Connects Sofie with Lisa and James’s parental union
Diamond
External community resource or institution in this example
Directional arrow
Shows the direction of a support, service, participation, or referral connection
Relationship label
Describes the purpose of the connection, such as Health Care, Local Support, or Community Activity
Resource-to-resource link
Shows coordination or connection between two community organizations
When to Use This Example
Use this example when a family, social worker, case manager, counselor, community-health professional, or educator wants to see family and community supports together.
- Family and community needs or strengths assessments.
- Social-work and case-management planning.
- Community-health, school, nonprofit, and faith-based coordination.
- Collaborative conversations about referrals, participation, and available support.
How to Customize This Genogram
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Map the family or household
Add the people at the center of the assessment and connect their relevant family relationships. Include ages, roles, or household details when they support the purpose of the map.
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Add community resources
Place clinics, schools, support groups, faith communities, nonprofits, public services, clubs, and other meaningful organizations around the family. Use one consistent resource shape and label each organization clearly.
- 3
Connect people with their resources
Draw arrows between each person and the relevant organization. Add short labels such as healthcare, counseling, education, childcare, local support, community activity, or referral so the purpose of every link is easy to understand.
- 4
Review the support network together
Add connections between organizations when they coordinate or refer people to one another. Use the completed view to recognize existing strengths, clarify roles, plan referrals, and support coordinated follow-up.
Creately Clinical Capabilities for This Example
Creately Clinical supports family-community mapping with structured social-work fields, flexible connectors, collaborative review, and report-ready outputs. For this example, the Social Work field pack and Risk & Services view help teams connect family structure with support networks and services received.
- Relevant field packs: Base and Social Work fields for support networks, services, caregiving context, case notes, and referrals.
- Best-fit view mode: Risk & Services view to foreground formal and informal support connections.
- Structured mapping: Labeled connectors, notes, frames, and auto-derived person shapes keep families and community resources easy to distinguish.
- AI support: Generate a starting map from assessment notes or a family summary, then verify resources and relationships with the team.
- Collaboration and reporting: Use role-based sharing, real-time editing, auto-save, and PDF or DOCX exports for coordination and handoff.
Frequently Asked Questions
What types of community resources can I include?
Include any organization or group that is meaningful to the family, such as healthcare providers, schools, childcare services, support groups, faith communities, nonprofits, recreation programs, public agencies, or cultural organizations.
What do the diamonds represent?
In this example, diamonds represent external community resources rather than people. Keep this convention consistent and include a legend if you introduce additional resource shapes.
Can I connect community organizations to one another?
Yes. The example links the Neighbor Support Group with Grace Community Church. Similar links can show referrals, shared programs, information exchange, or another form of collaboration.
How does Creately support family-community mapping?
Creately’s Social Work fields can record support networks and services received, while notes and labeled connectors add resource details. The Risk & Services viewpoint helps teams focus on services and support, and real-time collaboration enables authorized professionals to review the map together.
Start in Creately Clinical, then deepen the community-support view
Edit the genogram, replace the example family and organizations with the people and resources relevant to your situation, and label how each connection helps. Use the completed map to recognize existing support, coordinate community partnerships, and identify practical next steps together.