| Appendix B: Resource Programs Contact List Child Development–Community Policing Program The Child Development–Community Policing Program (CD–CP) is a national model of a collaborative alliance among law enforcement, juvenile justice, domestic violence, medical, and mental health professionals and child welfare agencies, schools, and other community agencies. The CD–CP Program was launched in 1991 as a partnership between the City of New Haven, the New Haven Department of Police Services, and the Yale Child Study Center. Now replicated in communities nationwide, the CD–CP Program is a model for shared intervention programs. It provides opportunities to better understand the relationship between children’s exposure to violence and traumatic stress symptoms and to develop prompt and effective ways to assist children and families exposed to violence. By placing the primary emphasis on the child’s perspective, the program has changed the traditional way that services are delivered. Child Witness to Violence Project The Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of violence: children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence. The project began in 1992 and currently counsels more than 100 children and their families each year and implements both national and state-focused training for healthcare professionals, police, educators, and other social services professionals who confront issues of children witnessing violence. Green Book Initiative This interagency demonstration project, referred to as the Green Book Initiative, supports the implementation of recommended policy and practice guidelines featured in the Green Book. Within selected jurisdictions, the Initiative fosters and enhances collaborations among domestic violence service providers; child protective services; juvenile, family, and criminal courts; and community groups with the goal of providing more effective ways to achieve safety and well-being for intimate partner victims and their children. The guidelines recommend ways to develop and implement cross-system policy and staff development, improve procedures within each system to better achieve safety and prevent further abuse of adult and child victims, hold batterers accountable, and seek greater community resources to serve victims and their families. Help, Encouragement, and Recognition of Observers of Domestic Violence The Help, Encouragement, and Recognition of Observers of Domestic Violence (HERO) program is a unit of the Mecklenburg County (NC) Women’s Commission. HERO focuses on children who witness violent behavior in their homes, such as spousal battering or assault, and provides direct services to children who have been identified as living in a violent home and to other members of their families. Massachusetts Department of Social Services, Domestic Violence Unit Child abuse and domestic violence often occur together. The Domestic Violence Unit is a statewide initiative designed to enhance the Department of Social Services’ (DSS’) ability to protect children experiencing family violence. The best interests of children cannot be separated from the best interests of their mothers. That is why a team of Domestic Violence Specialists works side by side with Child Protection staff in DSS offices across the state. Miami Safe Start Initiative The Miami Safe Start Initiative is a model community response for young children exposed to violence. Working in partnership are the Juvenile Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit in Florida, the Miami Police Department, Early Head Start, and community providers of services to families. The partners are working to provide early intervention services for children age 6 and younger who have witnessed or been the victims of violence by identifying gaps in services, creating expanded linkages for intervention, and training providers on the effects of violence on child development. National Center for Children Exposed to Violence The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) is a primary national resource center for anyone seeking information about the effects of violence on children and the initiatives designed to address this problem. It provides training, technical assistance, and consultation to a variety of collaborative community programs across the country. Through its Advisory Committee of nationally recognized experts in a variety of disciplines, this forum brings a strong voice to the needs of children and families exposed to violence. National Child Traumatic Stress Network Treatment centers from all over the United States have came together to form a new coalition, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network develops and disseminates effective, evidence-based treatments; collects data for systematic study; and helps educate professionals and the public about the effects of trauma on children. Preschool Witness to Violence Program/Child Trauma Research Project The Child Trauma Research Project is a public-private collaboration among local health and human services organizations. The program is a joint endeavor of San Francisco General Hospital and the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco. The program provides assessment, treatment, and case management services for children (from birth to age six) and their families who have been involved with domestic violence. The program also engages in outreach, training, consultation, and advocacy to the surrounding community. Safe Start Initiative The Safe Start Initiative is a 51/2-year national demonstration project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Eleven urban, rural, and tribal communities are addressing problems faced by young children exposed to violence within homes, schools, and communities. These communities are planning, testing, and evaluating effective education, prevention, and intervention strategies by strengthening already existing alliances, changing operational policies and financing, and integrating service delivery systems (such as police/mental health/justice partnerships). Their focus on building collaboration and awareness of the issues surrounding children’s exposure to violence is designed to ensure lasting effects in their communities and demonstrate effective approaches that can be adapted and used elsewhere. Violence Intervention Program The Violence Intervention Program (VIP) was developed in 1992 as a direct response to the crisis of exposure to violence. The VIP Program is a collaboration between the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center/Department of Psychiatry, the New Orleans Police Department, and community schools and local residents. The goals of the VIP Program are to respond to children and families affected by violence in a timely manner; to educate police officers, community groups, and professionals about the effects of violence on children; to educate families living with violence on how to keep their children safe; and to evaluate the effectiveness of the program and share findings with others.
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