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• Children's Exposure to Domestic Violence: Is It Child Abuse?
  Author: Steve Christian
  Description: This document is a review of the child welfare system's response to child exposure to domestic violence and is followed by a discussion about child abuse definitions, policy approaches, and the responsbilities of legislators.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

• Adult Domestic Violence in Cases of International Parental Child Abduction
  Author: Sudha Shetty & Jeffrey Edleson
  Description: "This article discusses the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction and its impact on battered mothers and their children seeking safety in the United States."
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Balancing the Harms - Protecting Children
  Author: Sharwline Nicholson
  Description: The author addresses the need for change in the child protection system and the current means through which children are removed from the home in domestic violence situations. The page provides a short video clip from the author's work-in-progress which addresses actual cases.
  Date Added: 01/29/2007

• 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

• Building Safety for Battered Women and Their Children into the Child Protection System
  Author: Ellen Pence and Terri Taylor
  Description: This is a report based on three separate consultations by Praxis with communities wanting to explore the use of the Safety and Accountability Audit in child protection cases where there has been a history of domestic violence. This report shows how to use case files and focus groups to locate systemic problems in the handling of these cases. It is a preliminary examination of the problematic practices in working with battered women within a child protection case.
  Date Added: 11/06/2003

• Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect: 2003
  Author: Public Health Agency of Canada
  Description: This report presents the major findings of the second cycle of the Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (CIS-2003). In this initiative, data are collected every five years on child maltreatment reported to, and investigated by, child welfare agencies in Canada.
  Date Added: 10/04/2005

• Caring For My Family
  Author: Caring For My Family
  Description: "The purpose of the program is to equip unmarried mothers and fathers with skills for making healthy decisions and to explore future options for their relationship including the potential of getting married. New parents will learn skills for parenting together and strengthening their family unit."
  Date Added: 08/10/2007

• Child Protective Services for Children of Battered Women: Practice and Controversy
  Author: Carol Echlin and Larry Marshal for the London and Middlesex Children's Aid Society
  Description: 1995. A look at the difficulties that child protection workers face when trying to make a situation safe for children who witness woman abuse.
  Date Added: 01/04/2001

• Child Welfare Practices for Cases with Domestic Violence
  Author: Oregon Department of Human Services
  Description: This is the third edition of Child Welfare Practice for Cases with Domestic Violence, developed as part of an overall effort to increase the safety of adults and children through collaboration of domestic violence services and child protective services.
  Date Added: 03/18/2004

• Children, Young People and Domestic Violence
  Author: Lesley Laing
  Description: The author explores "the ways in which children and young people experience domestic violence," as well as the impact it has on child development and the response by professionals and the child protection system is also reviewed.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Services
  Author: North Carolina Division of Social Services & The Family and Children's Resource Program
  Description: Statistics and links to helpful resources and information related to child welfare and domestic violence are provided in this document.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Early Identification of Risk Factors for Parental Abduction
  Author: Janet R. Johnston, Ph.D., Inger Sagatun-Edwards, Ph.D., Martha-Elen Blomquist, Ph.D., Linda K. Girdner, Ph.D.
  Description: 12-page Bulletin posted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The bulletin provides information regarding the risk factors associated with parental kidnaping and strategies that can be used to intervene with families at greatest risk. They address such critical factors as the characteristics of parents who abduct their own children, the role family violence plays in increasing the likelihood of parental abduction, ways of identifying children at risk of being abducted by a parent or other family member, and steps that can be taken to protect children from family abduction.
  Date Added: 07/23/2001

• Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy & Practice
  Author: Louis W. McHardy, Meredith Hofford, Susan Schechter, & Jeffrey Edleson
  Description: This 133 page publication addresses a number of issues relevant to family violence within the home and the community and specifically focuses on interventions.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Forging New Collaborations Between Domestic Violence Programs, Child Welfare Services and Communities of Color
  Author: Nita Carter
  Description: This report summarizes the dialogues from the Women of Color Network (WOCN) focus groups on domestic violence and child welfare. Over one hundred (100) domestic violence and sexual assault activists of color participated in these focus groups. The report includes a set of recommendations and highlights from their conversations regarding issues and barriers for battered women with children from communities of color.
  Date Added: 12/19/2003

• Guidelines for Conducting Family Team Conferences When There is a History of Domestic Violence
  Author: Ricardo Carrillo, Ph.D. and Janet Carter, M.S.
  Description: These guidelines are meant to assist workers who are participating in or facilitating FTCs when there has been a history of domestic violence. The goal is to ensure that the safety of all family members is addressed in a supportive and empowering manner throughout the process of FTC.
  Date Added: 11/10/2003

• Guidelines for Public Child Welfare Agencies Serving Children and Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
  Author: Ramona Foley, David Berns, MSW, Gretchen Test, MSW and H. Lien Bragg, MSW
  Description: The guidelines describe model policies, practices, programs, and protocols that address the multiple needs of families and children affected by domestic violence and child maltreatment. They are based on recommendations contained in the Greenbook and on the thoughtful recommendations provided by public child welfare agency directors, domestic violence advocates, child advocates, and legal representatives.
  Date Added: 08/19/2003

• Guidelines for Responding to the Co-occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
  Author: Minnesota Department of Human Services
  Description: The purpose of these Guidelines is to provide direction to child protection staff when responding to situations in which child maltreatment and domestic violence are both occurring.
  Date Added: 04/22/2002

• Helping Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Law Enforcement and Community Partnerships
  Author: Barbara E. Smith, Laura B. Nickles, Darlanne Hector Mulmat, and Heather J. Davies for the American Bar Association and Association of Governements
  Description: March 2001 report. Discusses law enforcement and community responses to children who have been exposed to domestic violence.
  Date Added: 04/18/2002

• 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

• Keeping Children Safe: OJJDP's Child Protection Division
  Author: Thomas Cullen, a Senior Writer-Editor with the Juvenile Justice Clearinghouse
  Description: 8-page Bulletin posted by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). This Bulletin describes CPD and its efforts to safeguard children by supporting research and programs on child victimization and exposure to violence; providing information and training and technical assistance to State, local, and community-based agencies; and developing and demonstrating effective child protection initiatives. The Bulletin also discusses the rationale for OJJDP's work in the areas of missing and exploited children and child maltreatment and describes the scope of the division's activities.
  Date Added: 07/23/2001

• Learning from Experiences of Battered Immigrant, Refugee and Indegenious Women with Child Protection Services to Inform a Dialogue Among Domestic Violence Activisits and Advocates
  Author: V. Pualani Enos
  Description: This document introduces voices of battered immigrant, refugee and indegenious women who were also involved in Child Protection Services. The document explores how community approach can enhance the physical, spiritual and mental health of individuals, families and communities and how this concept can be well utilized for policy and practice for social services.
  Date Added: 02/23/2004

• Overlap of Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment in U.S. State Civil and Criminal Statutes
  Author: Annelies Hagemeister, MA, Ph.D.
  Description: This April 2000 table lists statutes alphabetically by state.
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  Date Added: 04/18/2000

• Prosecutors, Kids and Domestic Violence
  Author: Debra Whitcomb
  Description: This article describes some of the issues prosecutors should be aware of when they handle domestic violence cases involving children, especially in light of recent legislation aimed to protect children.
  Date Added: 05/22/2003

• Protecting Children from Exposure to Domestic Violence: The Use and Abuse of Child Maltreatment Statutes
  Author: Lois A. Weithorn, J.D., Ph.D.
  Description: This 145 page article is a comprehensive review and critical discussion about the laws and child protection responses that have shown to be effective.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect: A Resource Guide for Mandated Reporters
  Author: Minnesota Department of Human Services
  Description: This guide is designed to help mandated reporters better understand the statute and to outline appropriate action that should be taken if there is a suspicion of child abuse or neglect.
  Date Added: 09/08/2004

• Reporting of Maltreatment of Minors: Minnesota Statute 626.556
  Description: Posted by the Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes. Discusses public policy, definitions, persons mandated to report, report of deprivation of parental rights or kidnapping, agency responsible for assessing or investigating reports of maltreatment, agency responsible for assessing or investigating reports of maltreatment, immunity from liability, retaliation prohibited, failure to report, and more.
  Date Added: 11/27/2001

• Responding to Child Maltreatment and Domestic Violence
  Author: Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Description: This article discusses the ongoing debate between child protection workers and domestic abuse advocates. It also outlines the similarities between the two groups as they work towards similar goals.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Sharwline Nicholson v. Nicholas Scoppetta - Appeals Decision
  Description: This document outlines the Appeals decision regarding the case of Nicholson (filed as a class action in federal court in 2001). This history of this decision is based on the class action lawsuit in which battered mothers and their children in New York City successfully challenged the City child welfare agency's practice and policy of removing children from battered mothers and charging the mothers with child neglect due to domestic violence. The federal court ruled that the practice is unconstitutional under federal law. The case went up on appeal.
  Date Added: 11/02/2004

• 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.
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  Date Added: 10/11/2005

• Strategies to Improve Supervised Visitation Services in Domestic Violence Cases
  Author: M. Sharon Maxwell, LCSW, Ph.D. & Karen Oehme, J.D.
  Description: This Violence Against Women Online Resources commissioned document describes the evolution of supervised visitation services for domestic violence cases, notes legal trends in these cases, describes practice concerns, and presents strategies to improve the safety of participants when supervised visitation, due to domestic violence, is court-ordered.
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  Date Added: 10/29/2001

• Supervised Visitation: Information for Mothers Who Have Been Abused
  Author: Family Violence Prevention Fund
  Description: "This Guide should be given directly to mothers who have experienced abuse and whose children are in supervised visitation programs. It will tell mothers basic information about how supervised visitation programs work and how she can prepare herself and her children for the experience. If she is afraid of her children’s father or was abused by him, then the information in this Guide will be particularly helpful to her."
  Date Added: 07/25/2007

• The Canadian Child Welfare Response to Cases of Exposure to Domestic Violence: Analysis of the 2003 Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect (Cis-2003)
  Author: Tara Black, Nico Trocme, Barbara Fallon, and Bruce MacLaurin
  Description: This document displays the results of a comparative overview of the child welfare response within Canadian boundaries to child exposure to domestic violence. Implications for policy are discussed.
  Date Added: 05/02/2007

• Training Child Welfare Workers on Domestic Violence
  Author: Randy H. Magen, Ph.D. and Kathryn Conroy, DSW
  Description: Final Report, June 1998. In October of 1995, the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) was awarded funds to train public child welfare workers to understand and intervene appropriately with families where there was concurrent child abuse or neglect and woman abuse. This objective was accomplished by designing, implementing, and evaluating a competency-based training curriculum on domestic violence for direct service workers in the New York City Administrationm for Children's Services (ACS). The training curriculum was designed to impact worker's attitudes toward domestic violence, provide them with knowledge and skills for assessing domestic violence, and enhance their practice with families in which there is woman abuse. This paper is the final report CUSSW's project.
  Date Added: 06/20/2000

• Using Interpreters in Forensic Interviews
  Author: Barbara Hiltz, MSSW, LGSW, Jennifer Anderson, MSW, LGSW for American Prosecutors Research Institute
  Description: This document offers experience-based considerations for those who choose to utilize interpreters in forensic interviews with children.
  Date Added: 02/06/2003

• Violence Against Women Document Library
  Author: Violence Against Women Online Resources
  Description: A huge variety of information and resources are categorized by topics relating to children and domestic violence, including information about advocacy, child custody and protection, and criminal justice responses.
  Date Added: 05/09/2007

• What Can I Do to Prevent Harm to Children? A Resource Guide for Mandated Reporters
  Author: Minnesota Department of Human Services - Children's Services
  Description: Designed to help you better understand Minnesota's mandated reporter statute and to outline appropriate action to take if you know of or suspect abuse or neglect to a child. Includes reference material.
  Date Added: 11/13/2000

• When Children Experience Domestic Violence: Expert Opinion
  Author: National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
  Description: This document includes a summary of a ruling made by a New York Judge to stop removing children from battered women because children of such women are exposed to domestic violence.
  Date Added: 04/25/2007

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