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Hope for Children
From:
Triangle Family Services, Safechild, Interact of Wake County
Contact:
Lee Grohse, Vice President of Programs
Purpose:
Ensure that children who have witnessed family violence have access to a coordinated continuum of age-appropriate services that help overcome the subsequent long-term psychological, social, developmental, and emotional health effects.
How:
- Identify, assess, and provide treatment by establishing a consistent screening protocol and multiple points of access through several community agencies.
- Establish case management services to conduct assessments and ensure coordination of referrals.
- Implement new service components to provide a full continuum of needed services.
- Expand services within agencies that have existing expertise and facilities.
- Expand existing collaborative to include other child services agencies in screening and referral of at-risk children.
Outcomes:
- Identify 1,800 child witnesses of family violence and assess for related emotional problems.
- Develop treatment plans, refer to age-appropriate services, and monitor family compliance for 600 children.
- Improve clinical status of 150 children through crisis counseling.
- Improve clinical status of 150 children through therapeutic visitations.
- Improve clinical status of 150 children through provision of mental health and psychiatric treatment.
- Improve treatment access and clinical status for 180 spanish-speaking children through outreach.
- Reduce violent behaviors and improve clinical status of 300 teenage witnesses to family violence.
Cost/Term:
$390,788 over three years. July 2005-June 2008
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