Building Bridges Between Domestic Violence Organizations and Child Protective Services
Author: Linda Spears
Description: This paper provides both background information and a
framework for collaboration with child protection agencies
that will support the work of domestic violence advocates as
they try to improve safety for women and their children.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases (Executive Summary)
Author: Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: This is an executive summary of the document "Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policies and Practice." The aim of this document is to offer a more comprehensive set of responses to eliminate or decrease the enormous risks that individual battered mothers, caseworkers, and judges must take on behalf of children.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
In the Best Interest of Women and Children: A Call for Collaboration Between Child Welfare and Domestic Violence Constituencies
Author: Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: This is a briefing paper prepared for a Wingspread Conference of a similar title. It discusses family violence, specifically against women and children, barriers to helping the victims, and the importance of collaboration to effect change.
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Date Added: 10/11/2005
Problems Associated with Children's Witnessing of Domestic Violence
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. for VAWnet
Description: This document discusses children's problems associated with witnessing violence and the factors that influence the degree of those problems. The author also offers a critique of the research methods used to study child witnessing of violence and explores the policy implications of the data on this issue.
Date Added: 10/11/2005
Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Adult Domestic Violence in Hennepin County
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D. Sandra K. Beeman, Ph.D.M, University of Minnesota
Description: In this report, Drs. Edleson and Beeman and their research assistants detail information collected from a variety of sources during the first half of 1999. Information collection included detailed reporting by child protection screeners and investigators in the Hennepin County Department of Children and Family Services (HCDCFS), consulting with national experts in this area, reviewing published materials on prominent demonstration projects from around the United States and Canada, and holding a series of stakeholder meetings throughout Hennepin County.
Other Formats: | Word |
Date Added: 10/26/2005
Should Childhood Exposure to Adult Domestic Violence Be Defined as Child Maltreatment Under the Law?
Author: Jeffrey L. Edleson, Ph.D.
Description: Published as a chapter in Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention (2004), this article reviews the research on childhood exposure to domestic violence and emerging laws aimed at protecting these children. The author concludes with an argument against assuming that childhood exposure to violence is automatically a form of child maltreatment and suggests the need to modify child protection services and the expansion of primarily voluntary community-based responses to these children and their families.
Other Formats: | Word |
Date Added: 10/11/2005
Six Crucial Issues in Supervised Visitation
Author: Karen Oehme and Sharon Maxwell, Clearinghouse on Supervised Visitation, Florida State University
Description: This article describes six crucial issues that may decide how victims, their children, and their communities experience supervised visitation. These issues, based upon research and experience from supervised visitation providers nationally, are: how staff and volunteer training can enhance victim safety; how risk assessment tools can help staff identify dangers; how stalking can be reduced at supervised visitation programs; how liability issues can be addressed at programs; how court orders can increase protection for victims and children; and how staff can avoid unintended outcomes in program record keeping.
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Date Added: 10/26/2005
The Impact of Parental Kidnapping Laws and Practice on Domestic Violence Survivors
Author: National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women
Description: This report demonstrates how parental kidnapping laws effect domestic violence survivors.
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Date Added: 04/18/2006
Understanding Women’s Experiences Parenting in the Context of Domestic Violence: Implications for Community and Court-Related Service Providers
Author: Peter G. Jaffe and Claire V. Crooks
Description: This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document describes the intersection between woman abuse and parenting. The authors identify and discuss seven central themes that highlight the challenges of parenting in the context of woman abuse. Specific implications and recommendations for community and court service providers are also offered.
Date Added: 11/15/2005
