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| Court Teams for Maltreated Infants & Toddlers Babies and toddlers are the most frequent victims of abuse and neglect in families, and the only ones without words. Judges in juvenile and family courts want to break the cycle of despair these children experience and give them a chance for the future. But judges need to know more about how babies and toddlers develop—a science they do not learn in law school. They need to have available in their communities solutions for these children that are validated by research. They also need community partners who share their urgency to take advantage of opportunities for early intervention, when young children first come to the notice of courts. |
Miami’s Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence (DCIPFV) www.miamidcip.org Miami’s Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence (DCIPFV) was the first project in the nation to identify and address domestic violence in the context of juvenile dependency court proceedings. Conceived by Miami Circuit Court Judge Cindy S. Lederman and the late Susan Schechter, M.S.W. of the University of Iowa, the DCIPFV began in 1997 as a national demonstration project funded by the Department of Justice’s Violence Against Women Grants Office. Operating in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit’s Juvenile Court, the DCIPFV has worked to advance the principle that when child maltreatment and domestic violence overlap, the safety and well-being of children can be better assured by increasing the safety and self-efficacy of their mothers. |
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children & Families www.acf.dhhs.gov The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. Actual services are provided by state, county, city and tribal governments, and public and private local agencies. ACF assists these organizations through funding, policy direction, and information services. |
| Domestic Violence Child Protective Services www.calib.com/dvcps The Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), awarded Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services (DV/CPS) Grants beginning in 1994. Grantees were to address the need for collaboration, develop strategies for overcoming challenges to collaboration, and leverage opportunities to create new DV/CPS collaborative strategies for integrating domestic violence services into child protection systems. The DV/CPS grant program promoted the exchange of information and strategies between domestic violence advocates and CPS agencies. Such collaboration aimed at producing effective training and intervention protocols that could be used when domestic violence is encountered during CPS investigations. Collaboration between the CPS and domestic violence fields is a relatively new approach to the problem of family violence. The DV/CPS grant program pioneered the way to bridging the gap between the safety of children and the safety of mothers. |
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National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) |
| National Council on Child Abuse & Family Violence http://nccafv.org/amercamp.htm NCCAFV is committed to assisting victims of child abuse, spouse/partner abuse and elder abuse and to prevent family violence through public awareness, education and program development. |
| The Greenbook Initiative www.thegreenbook.info A major new initiative, popularly known as the "Greenbook," is helping child welfare and domestic violence agencies and family courts work together more effectively to help families experiencing violence. Since the "Greenbook" was released in 1999, dozens of sites around the country have used it to improve their policies and practices. The "Greenbook" project is helping communities from coast to coast improve coordination among courts and social service agencies to better serve families in need. All the work of the "Greenbook" project is informed by an expert Greenbook Policy Advisory Committee. In addition to state and local activity, the "Greenbook" has generated a federal initiative - a joint project of the United States Departments of Justice and Health & Human Services. It is designed to improve the quality of services provided by local jurisdictions to families threatened both by domestic violence and child abuse or maltreatment. The National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) coordinates support and technical assistance to each of the six counties that are part of the federal Greenbook intiative. |
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Domestic Violence Awareness & Prevention |
| World-Wide List of Agencies Against Domestic Violence www.hotpeachpages.net Global inventory of hotlines, shelters, refuges, crisis centers and women's organizations, searchable by country, plus index of domestic violence resources in over 60 languages |
| National Coalition Against Domestic Violence www.ncadv.org The Mission of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence is to organize for collective power by advancing transformative work, thinking and leadership of communities and individuals working to end the violence in our lives. NCADV believes violence against women and children results from the use of force or threat to achieve and maintain control over others in intimate relationships, and from societal abuse of power and domination in the forms of sexism, racism, homophobia, classism, anti-Semitism, able-bodyism, ageism and other oppressions. NCADV recognizes that the abuses of power in society foster battering by perpetuating conditions which condone violence against women and children. Therefore, it is the mission of NCADV to work for major societal changes necessary to eliminate both personal and societal violence against all women and children. NCADV’s work includes coalition building at the local, state, regional and national levels; support for the provision of community-based, non-violent alternatives - such as safe home and shelter programs - for battered women and their children; public education and technical assistance; policy development and innovative legislation; focus on the leadership of NCADV’s caucuses and task forces developed to represent the concerns of organizationally under represented groups; and efforts to eradicate social conditions which contribute to violence against women and children. |
| American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html The mission of the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic Violence is to mobilize thelegal profession to provide access to justice and safety for victims of domestic violence. |
| Battered Women Justice Project www.bwjp.org The mission of the Battered Women's Justice Project is to promote systemic change within community organizations and governmental agencies engaged in the civil and criminal justice response to domestic violence that creates true institutional accountability to the goal of ensuring safety for battered women and their families. To this end, BWJP undertakes projects on the local, state, national, and international levels. |
| Domestic Violence Institute www.dviworld.org Our Mission is to educate and train professionals and lay people, conduct research, and impact public policy about violence against women, children, men, the elderly and promote survival of the non-abusive family. |
| End Violence Against Women Information & Resources www.endvaw.org This site was developed by the staff of the Center for Communication Programs (CCP) as part of its ongoing effort to collect and share documentation and communication materials produced in the worldwide struggle to end violence against women. CCP has established the Violence Against Women Resource Center at its offices in Baltimore, Maryland, and serves health professionals who seek information and resources on this subject |
| Family Violence Prevention Fund http://endabuse.org The Family Violence Prevention Fund works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence. For more than two decades, the Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF) has worked to end violence against women and children around the world. Instrumental in developing the landmark Violence Against Women Act passed by Congress in 1994, the FVPF has continued to break new ground by reaching new audiences including men and youth, promoting leadership within communities to ensure that violence prevention efforts become self-sustaining, and transforming the way health care providers, police, judges, employers and others address violence. |
| U.S. Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo Since its inception in 1995, the Violence Against Women Office, now the Office on Violence Against Women (the Office) has handled the Department’s legal and policy issues regarding violence against women, coordinated Departmental efforts, provided national and international leadership, received international visitors interested in learning about the federal government’s role in addressing violence against women, and responded to requests for information regarding violence against women. The Office works closely with other components of OJP, the Office of Legal Policy, the Office of Legislative Affairs, the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, the Immigration and Naturalization Office, the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, and state, tribal and local jurisdictions to implement the mandates of the Violence Against Women Act and subsequent legislation. |
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Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse (MINCAVA) Electronic Clearinghouse |
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American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) |
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Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) |
| National Exchange Center www.preventchildabuse.com The National Exchange Club Foundation is committed to making a difference in the lives of children, families and our communities through its national project, the prevention of child abuse. The NEC Foundation's most successful method of countering abuse is by working directly with parents through the parent aide program. The NEC Foundation coordinates a nationwide network of nearly 100 Exchange Club Child Abuse Prevention Centers who utilize the parent aide program and provide support to families at-risk for abuse. |
| Kempe Children’s Center www.kempecenter.org The Kempe Children's Center will provide and improve direct clinical services, improve clinical service delivery systems, and provide training, education and consultation programs to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect in Colorado and throughout the nation. |
| Children’s Defense Fund www.childrensdefense.org The mission of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF) is to Leave No Child Behind and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. CDF provides a strong, effective voice for all the children of America who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. CDF educates the nation about the needs of children and encourages preventive investment before they get sick or into trouble, drop out of school, or suffer family breakdown. |
| National Children’s Alliance www.nca-online.org The National Children's Alliance (formerly the National Network of Children's Advocacy Centers) is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide training, technical assistance and networking opportunities to communities seeking to plan, establish and improve Children's Advocacy Centers. |
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