This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghousetest.org/
This document was printed from the website of the California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare (CEBC), which you can access at http://www.cachildwelfareclearinghousetest.org/
The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare's (CEBC's) primary focus is to review and rate selected evidence-based psychosocial programs within child welfare. The CEBC is not designed to, nor does it have the capacity to be able to, review policy initiatives.
The following initiatives are well known in the field of domestic intimate partner violence. A summary of the Greenbook Initiative and Safe Start Initiative are provided for informational purposes only.
Click on the links below for a brief summary for each initiative:
In 1999, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) published Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice (commonly known as The Greenbook). The Greenbook addressed concerns related to the needs of mothers and children who were the victims of domestic violence, and how the core systems that they interacted with (courts, child welfare, and advocacy) could improve services to these individuals through collaboration. These concepts of system reform were carried into the community through a partnership among the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), NCJFCJ, Family Violence Prevention Fund (FVPF), and the American Public Human Services Association (APHSA). This partnership, referred to as the Initiative, worked with six demonstration sites. These demonstration sites were created to enhance communication and collaboration among the systems involved, in order to improve outcomes for women and children victims of domestic violence and to address accountability for batterers. This was a groundbreaking attempt at improving collaboration among systems that historically have not approached the issue of domestic violence from the same perspective and became a learning experience for all involved.
Currently the project has focused on the delivery of a broad range of technical assistance and support to sites located in counties around the country: El Paso County, Colorado; Grafton County, New Hampshire; Lane County, Oregon; San Francisco County, California; Santa Clara County, California;, and St. Louis County, Missouri. It is hoped that this technical assistance and support will enhance the well-being and safety of battered mothers and their children, promote interagency communication and collaboration, modify and create safer and more effective policies, and shift practice to support the right of every woman and child to live in a violence-free environment.
For further information about the Greenbook Initiative please contact: Shelly Reynolds 775-784-4879 sreynolds@ncjfcj.org http://www.thegreenbook.info/read.htm
The Safe Start Initiative is funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The goal of the Initiative is to broaden the knowledge of and promote community investment in evidence-based strategies for preventing and reducing the impact of children's exposure to violence. Safe Start communities create a comprehensive service delivery system encompassing:
All of this is done with the intention of improving the access to, delivery of, and quality of services both for children at high risk of being exposed to violence and for those who have already been exposed.
Eleven demonstration communities around the nation were funded from 2000 to 2006 to create a comprehensive service delivery system to improve the accessibility, delivery, and quality of services for children exposed to violence and their families. An evaluation of the demonstration resulted in a broader understanding of how communities can implement a comprehensive system of care that can minimize the negative consequences of exposure to violence. Fifteen promising practices communities, funded in 2005, are focusing on implementing and measuring developmentally appropriate services for children exposed to violence within the context of the systems that serve them. A national evaluation of these 15 promising practices will inform the field about the impact of specific intervention strategies on outcomes for children and families.
As a part of this initiative, the Safe Start Center was created as an easily accessible resource. Through the Safe Start Center, the initiative disseminates resources, provides training and technical assistance, and makes available information and educational tools to help communities address the impact of exposure to violence.