Service Provider Perspectives on Family Violence Interventions (1995) / Chapter Skim
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Child Victim Services
Child Victim Services
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The interventions available for child victims occur in many different institutional settings, such as the courts, hospitals, social services agencies, schools, communities, and the home. They inclucle medical diagnostic and treatment programs, therapeutic counseling programs, child protective services, foster care, resi(lential centers, child witness support programs in judicial settings, and other efforts designed to mitigate the consequences of maltreatment.
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NOTE For additional information on the research associated with such intervention programs, see National Research Council (1993) Urulerstar~ding Child Abuse and Neglect.
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Reports of abuse and neglect initiated by Denver Public School employees are referred to the Child Abuse Hotline, as are reports of alleged child sexual abuse received by the Denver Police Department or reports of child sexual abuse received by any personnel in a health care setting or physician's office. Colorado has enacted laws that make prosecution easier; for example, evidentiary standards have been revised through child hearsay laws to enable prosecutors to use statements children have made to others.
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Child sexual abuse is not only a serious child welfare problem, it is a crime that justifies prosecution by law enforcement and juclicial agencies. Yet the prosecution of such crimes often is only a "banct-aid" that seeks to deal with complex problems that have not been adclressec!
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NCPCA has focused particular attention on the need to institutionalize long-term funding streams for HFA-type efforts. The 1994 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Bill included a new Family Preservation and Support Services Program that provides federal funds for state child welfare agencies to develop preventive family support services and family preservation services for families in crisis.
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To that end, HFA programs and state planning teams are collaborating with other family support programs or advocates in their states. Among the many HFA partners are the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Cooperative Extension System, the National Head Start Association, and HIPPY (Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters)
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: 16-22. Healthy Families America 1994 Building a Healthy Families America System: A Summary of Costs and Benefits.
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But determining the best interests of a chilc! can be a tremendous challenge to child protective service workers, compelling them to a(ldress various underlying issues, including social and economic patterns, and religious and cultural issues.
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services for families; fear of liabilities; extensive bureaucratic barriers; confidentiality issues; poor outcome measures; inadequate technology; lack of accountability; and a negative community perception of their role (American Civil Liberties Union, 19901. Caseworkers often respond to these overwhelming conditions by being openly hostile to their clients and clistrustfu!
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96-272, The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act, adopted in 1980. The intent of this legislation was to provide increased federal funds to support child abuse prevention efforts while also restricting increases in funds for out-of-home placements.
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In most cases, these programs have acloptec3 the Homebuilders moclel, which has specific selection criteria. Concerns have developed, however, that CPS agencies often lack the resources to follow up family preservation services programs with effective family support services.
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National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System 1993 Working Paper Summary Data Component.
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Perspectives Art Prospects. National Child Welfare Leaclership Center' School of Social Work.
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The passage of the 1993 Family Preservation and Family Support Act now strongly encourages child welfare agencies to revamp services to accomplish the goal of building on family strengths in order to keep families together and avoid child placement in foster care or residential centers. The service system is being challenged to integrate formal and informal helping resources and to establish a continuity of service in a variety of programs in order to meet family needs.
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, the child welfare system may judge harshly some family behaviors that are part of the daily lives of many highly functional families of diverse backgrounds. Risk assessment instruments can be valuable tools to recluce arbitrary judgments by caseworkers, but such assessments need to be highly focused and to concentrate on behaviors that are destructive to the child.
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Community representatives, in collaboration with service providers, can help identify practices that are harmful to children ant! identify how child discipline or child welfare can be improved for those who are powerless to escape their social condition.
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