Child Welfare Content Topic Results
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
January 2002
Expect Respect: A School-Based Program Promoting Safe and Healthy Relationships
Publisher(s):This document examines the issues of dating violence, sexual harassment and bullying, their interrelationship, and offers a rationale for school-based programs.
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- NRCDV Publications
- Training Tools
- General Material
January 2002
Kid&TeenSAFE: An Abuse Prevention Program for Youth with Disabilities
Publisher(s):This publication details a project of SafePlace's Disability Services ASAP (A Safety Awareness Program) in Texas and provides its model program materials for use with youth with disabilities.
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- General Material
January 2002
Assessing Risk To Children From Batterers
Overview of potential sources of harm to children from contact with batterers, recommendations for evaluating risk, and assessment guidelines that professionals can apply in cases where a batterer admits to a history of abusiveness.
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- General Material
January 2002
Batterers As Fathers: Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Policy and Practice
Publisher(s):This article describes an approach to intervention and prevention with children exposed to domestic violence that enforces the concepts of batterer accountability and change.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
November 2001
Working with Young Men Who Batter
Publisher(s):VAWnet: The National Online Resource Center on Violence Against Women, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence (NRCDV)
This document reviews juvenile BIPs, identifies risk factors for teen dating violence perpetration, describes efforts to prevent re-offenses, discusses shortcomings inherent in post-crisis intervention, and outlines current challenges within the field.
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- General Material
January 2001
Profiting from abuse: An investigation into the sexual exploitation of children
Publisher(s):This publication contains stories of children affected by commercial sex trafficking, including how they became involved in the sex trade, how they feel about their lives, what they need, what they fear and hope for.
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- General Material
January 2001
Fact Sheet about Children with Sexual Behavior Problems
Publisher(s): It is difficult to determine whether greater numbers of these cases are due to an actual increase in problematic sexual behaviors in children, or an increased awareness and identification of these behaviors when they occur. Children with sexual behavior problems should not be considered 'sex offenders' similar to adolescents and adults who engage in some of the same victimizing behaviors. They are different in a number of ways. This fact sheet describes these differences.
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
December 2000
Recommendations for Training TANF and Child Support Enforcement Staff about Domestic Violence
Publisher(s):This paper provides an overview of legal and policy context for domestic violence training, presents suggestions for effective teaching, and defines the concept of a "basic response to domestic violence."
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- NRCDV Publications
- General Material
June 2000
Expanding Solutions for Domestic Violence and Poverty: What Battered Women with Abused Children Need from Their Advocates
Publisher(s):This paper uses examples from the child welfare system to raise questions about the limitations of current DV advocacy strategies for low-income women. The paper challenges the U.S. traditional battered women's movement to expand its solutions.
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- General Material
- NRCDV Publications
May 2000
Making the Peace: An Approach to Preventing Relationship Violence Among Youth
Publisher(s):Describes a comprehensive school-based project that provided training and technical assistance to 2 communities implementing comprehensive dating/domestic violence prevention campaigns in their secondary schools.
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- General Material
March 2000
Children's Advocacy Centers in Indian Country
Publisher(s):The booklet discusses CAC's model in developing a proven response to child abuse by creating a multidisciplinary team approach that coordinates the key services involved in the investigation, prosecution, and treatment&of child abuse cases. It concludes by encouraging tribal communities in the developmental stages to consider the CAC's model as an appropriate response to child abuse.
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- General Material
February 2000
Promoting resilience: Helping young children and parents affected by substance abuse, domestic violence, and depression in the context of welfare reform
Publisher(s):This is Issue Brief #8 in a series based on a growing body of research that suggests that successful policies for families must take into account the needs of children when addressing the needs of parents and the needs of parents when addressing the needs of children.