|
Publications
Child abuse and neglect can harm young people in ways beyond the immediate pain and suffering inflicted.
Prevention (OJJDP), the Executive Office for Weed and Seed (EOWS), and the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) agreed to fund and monitor these communities, with OJJDP providing overall coordination. In 1997, DOJ selected five localities to implement SK/SS.
DOJ expected communities to become more comprehensive and proactive in their efforts to combat child abuse and neglect, improve coordination and collaboration across agencies, and deploy resources more effectively.
Overall, 57 percent of responding stakeholders represented the formal child protection system and other public agencies 25 percent from formal child protection agencies and 32 percent from other public agencies.
Huntsville and Kansas City had the largest concentrations of nontraditional stakeholders, accounting for about 30 percent of all respondents at those sites.
For example, closer collaboration between the domestic violence and child protection communities was a particularly noteworthy result of project efforts in several sites.
Most SK/SS sites successfully filled service gaps and made services more accessible, at least during the term of federal funding.
Except in Kansas City (where systems reform was the primary emphasis from the beginning), services were their highest priority during the early phases of implementation.
We encourage you to reproduce this document, share it with your colleagues, and reprint it in your newsletter or journal.
Posted on November 8, 2006 03:25 PM
|
