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Standards of Practice for Attorneys Representing Parents in Abuse and Neglect Cases The ABA Center on Children and the Law has released these standards, which address the basic obligations of parents’ attorneys, the obligations of the agency attorney manager, and the role of the Court. Full text available on the ABA web site as a 44 page Word document. ++++++++++ Parental Drug Use as Child Abuse
Here’s a handy document. Approximately 45 states, D.C., and Guam have laws within their child protection statutes that address the issue of substance abuse by parents. This 4 page document is downloadable. At this location you can also look up statute information for a particular state. ++++++++++ Child Welfare Law Office Guidebook: Best Practice Guidelines for Organizational Legal Representation of Children in Abuse, Neglect, and Dependency Cases
This publication from the National Association of Counsel for Children discusses best practices for legal representation of children. It includes guidelines for administration, development and outreach and information on standards of practice, community resources, and developing outcome measures. 114 page pdf file.
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This Juvenile Justice Bulletin reports results from an Evaluation of OJJDP’s Safe Kids/State Streets Program, which applies a comprehensive, collaborative approach to child maltreatment. Experiences of the participating sites often provide considerable insight into collaboration building, system reform, service options, and other strategies. 12 page dpf file.
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With support and funding from the Children’s Bureau, NCJFCJ, the ABA Center on Children and the Law, and the National Center for State Courts will work together to deal with court issues relating to children and families. The Collaborative will conduct a training conference in November 2006. Click on the link above for details.
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The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children
A user manual for CPS caseworkers working with fathers and their impact on children’s well being. Includes a section on fatherhood programs and federal fatherhood initiatives and appendices with resource listings and tips for dads. Downloadable by section, which tells me this is a fairly long document. ++++++++++ Project Safe Childhood Web site with resources on protecting children from online exploitation and abuse. ++++++++++ Child Abuse and Neglect General Information Packet
The Child Welfare Information Gateway provides an information packet that includes fact sheets about child maltreatment, child abuse and neglect information, statistical information about the prevalence of child abuse and neglect, and the characteristics of victims and offenders. The packet also includes directories of federal clearinghouses, hotlines, state agencies, and other organizations that disseminate information about family and domestic violence and substance abuse. ++++++++++ Series Addresses Family Abuse Across Generations
The Des Moines Register is publishing a three part series on the Dyess family and Tracy Dyess who was 17 when she doused the floors of her family’s home with gas one night then lit it. Her brother and sister died in the fire. Tracy had tried to tell people she was being sexually abused for years, to no avail. ++++++++++ CASA Volunteers: Keeping Watch Over Children in the System
A description of the CASA volunteers and the CASA program in Arlington, Virginia and its plans for expansion in the next year. ++++++++++ Justice for Children: Changing Lives by Changing Systems – A National Call to Action
Report of the results of a national judicial leadership summit on the protection of children. Includes state action plans developed during the summit with the intent to produce fundamental improvements in child protection. The plans closely follow the recommendations of the Pew Commission. NCJFCJ was a contributor to the summit. 54 page pdf file. ++++++++++ THE LINK: Connecting Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare
The lead story in the latest issue of this CWLA online publication deals with improving system responses to crossover youth, youth who penetrate both delinquency and dependency systems. 12 page downloadable pdf file. Back issues available at this page too. ++++++++++ Sex Offenders Tracked by Satellite
Under a new Wisconsin law convicted sex offenders will have to wear a two-piece electronic tracking device for the rest of their lives. Ankle bracelets and a pager-sized unit will use Global Positioning System (GPS) technology to follow their every step. If they entered restricted areas, such as schools, officials will be alerted. ++++++++++ Prevent Child Abuse Booklet
Stop it Now! is an organization that aims to prevent child sexual abuse by increasing public awareness and empowering people to act responsibly to protect children. The organization has published an 8 page booklet loaded with information, recommendations, and checklists of warning signs of child sexual abuse, including what to watch for when adults are around children, warning signs for an adult with sexual behavior problems, signs a child may have been abused. Downloadable. ++++++++++ Kids Who Murder Their Parents Kathleen M. Heide, a Florida professor of criminology, says in a newspaper interview that most parents who are killed by their children are killed by adult children. When the killer is a child, she said, the child most often kills out of desperation or terror. A second category involves children with severe mental illness and appears more often in cases involving adult children. The third category Heide found was that of children with severe antisocial tendencies. Heide says the killing of parents is about 2% of all homicides. She said most commonly, children who killed a parent were abused at home, particularly among parricides involving a child under 18. ++++++++++ Children of a Polygamist Sect
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) is an offshoot of the Mormon faith centered in the towns of Colorado City, Ariz. and Hildale, Utah. It is a polygamous sect of 10,000 members that portrays itself as an industrious commune of the faithful who choose to live apart from a hostile world. Investigations have uncovered widespread sexual abuse and child exploitation. Warren Jeffs, a third-generation church member is the sect leader – a post that carries the title “prophet” and gives him virtually absolute control over the most intimate conduct. The Los Angeles Times has investigated the sect over the last year, using court records, undisclosed investigative reports and interviews that show church authorities flout state and federal laws and systematically deny rights and freedoms, especially to women and children. See the series of articles below: ++++++++++ Evaluation Toolkit
The National Resource Center for Community Based Child Abuse Prevention offers this toolkit developed to help provide evidence that programs make meaningful differences and intended to be a resource for developing an individualized evaluation plan from the ground up. The kit includes a Logic Model Builder.
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