California State Think Tank –IV on Child Abuse & Disability

Improving California’s Response to Child Abuse involving Children with

Disabilities

A gathering of policy makers within the agencies with responsibility and authority over children and child abuse issues, to continue their commitment to make children with disabilities a priority in responding to child abuse.

Child Abuse and Neglect/Disability Outreach

Convened by the CAN DO! ProjectChild Abuse & Neglect Disability Outreach Project

A Grant Project of Arc RiversideSponsored by the Governor’s Office

Of Criminal Justice PlanningChildren’s Justice Act

THINK TANK IVAugust 22, 2003

Child Abuse and Neglect/Disability Outreach

Goals of Think Tank IV MeetingCreate an atmosphere of excitement and continued commitment to making California’s response to child abuse involving children with disabilities a model for the nation.

Share information from selected presenters on their achievements since June 2002.

Provide an update on the accomplishments of the CAN DO Project of Arc Riverside.

Review and revise the California State Action Plan on Child Abuse & Disability

Review Commitments from last year for progress & barriers to completing those commitments

Endorse commitments for 2003-2004.

PresentationElliott Schulman, M.D.

Statewide Web Based Reporting System

Presentations:Statistics on Child Abuse &

Disabilities

Bud Wilford, Dept. of Justice, Child Abuse Div.

Jeff Johnson, Walter R. MacDonald & Associates

BREAKBREAK

Action Plan Review

Action Plan Review

History

1st Think Tank 1997

2nd Think Tank 2001, 3rd 2002

Inter Agency Collaboration

Training• Clients Training• Criminal Justice • Service Providers

Prevention

Policy

Commitment Cards

• Review Commitment Cards from Think Tank III – Celebrate and Acknowledge achievements– Identify Barriers & Solutions

1. Convene annual Think Tank & foster InterDisciplinary Collaboration

2. Improve data collection system & create reports from available data

3. Create a Training program & conduct training, offer dissemination capability

4. Program Evaluation with OCJP5. Build and implement Web-based and

Internet resources in support of project objectives

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CAN DO Project – Status Report

CAN DO Project Goals

CAN/DO! Project Objective

Think Tank

• Convened the Think Tanks in each year of grant

• Developed annual Proceedings Report which was uploaded to project’s WebSite library 

• Ratification of ’97 Action Plan• Committed to Priorities from Action Plan

list• Developed Commitment Cards to specify

activities, support for implementation offered and provided to Think Tank members.

CAN/DO! Project ObjectivesProvide Inter-Agency support and technical assistance to state departments and agencies

• Created Web Site library to provide agencies with core documents on both child abuse and on disabilities

• Consultation to DOJ and Attorney General’s Task Force on Child Abuse & Neglect Reporting Act (CANRA) on disability issues

• Provided on-site and off-site consultation to OVC in the development of two video tapes on abuse & disability. (SHOW CLIPS)

CAN/DO! Project Objectives

Improve Data Collection System• Developed and published the data report on

abuse of children with disabilities county by county each year.

• Developed a detailed report for Los Angeles county.

• Continued to identify barriers to effective data collection in spite of improvements.- Recognition of additional disabilities- Barriers in current regulations

• Identified opportunity for possible epidemiological study, comparing major California data bases.

• Identified data source for California & national child abuse data

CAN/DO! Project ObjectivesProvide support for the development and dissemination of

training• Conducted initial and ongoing literature searches, placing findings on the Web.

• Provided training programs to various law enforcement, sexual assault and child abuse related audiences.

• Conducted training with evaluation piece in concert with LESU training through OCJP

• Took pilot training program to other states including New Jersey, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, S. Carolina, among others.

CAN/DO! Project Objectives

Conference Outcomes

• Convened 8th & 9th National/International Conferences on Abuse & Disability (2002, 2003) at each:

• Approximately 400 attendants representing 31 states and several countries

• 77 presenters from throughout the country and Canada & Australia

• Major support from OCJP through Wayne Strumpfer, Gillsa Miller, Lisa Fey-Williams and Kirby Everhart

• Major support in 2003 from DOJ through Joye Whately & John Gillis

• Growing national network of participants and presenters is opening new collaborations in support of California’s efforts

…more Conference outcomes• Audio and videotaping of proceedings

for later learning and training opportunities, & development of 9th Conference Highlights DVD (SHOW CLIPS) A Treat!!

• Dissemination of OVC training videos x2 for each participant

• Award program to acknowledge pioneers creating real change for child abuse victims with disabilities

CAN/DO! Project ObjectivesBuild and Implement Web-based

and Internet Resources

• Developed and built Website• Developed Listserve• Developed active library• Developed on-line Conference

management system

Tom Hanna will present our activities and achievements on the Web

INTERNET & WEBSITE

CAN DO-Arc Riverside Future Plans

•First Responders Curriculum to provide excellence in responding to child abuse calls involving children with disabilities and their families - OCJP

•Forensic Interviewing Model Training Video for In-Depth Interviews with Individuals with Cognitive and/or Communication Impairments (with Training Guide) OVC (pending)

•First On Line Professional Conference on Abuse & Disability May 2004 (OVC with LifeNet & PCNY, grant to Arc Riverside) (pending)

More plans….

• Training program for Service Providers throughout California (2005) following Certification from Safe Place OVC Training program. (Individuals with cognitive & other developmental disabilities.)

• 10th National/3rd International Conference on Abuse of Children & Adults with Disabilities, Riverside Convention Center, March 2005.

• CAN DO Community Building through establishing community

Child Abuse and Neglect/Disability Outreach

Roundtable

State Coordinating Committee – Kirby Everhart

Office of the Attorney General – Craig Pierini

Department of Mental Health – Michael Borunda

State Council on Developmental Disabilities – Tony Anderson

California District Attorney’s Association – Kate Killeen

CALCASA Project Access – Kecia Bailey

Open discussion – Everyone in!!

Update

&

Ratify

the California Action Plan

Next Steps: Plans and Ideas for Think Tank Members

Future Think Tank meetings?

Find a way to use the internet and CAN DO project website to further your agency’s goals on child abuse and disability issues

Identify one or more activities you can do within your agency to help kids with disabilities who become child abuse victims (index idea cards)

Acquire the products that have been developed to date and use them in your own agency conferences and training programs.

INTERNET & WEBSITE

CAN DO-Arc Riverside Future Plans

•First Responders Curriculum to provide excellence in responding to child abuse calls involving children with disabilities and their families - OCJP

•Forensic Interviewing Model Training Video for In-Depth Interviews with Individuals with Cognitive and/or Communication Impairments (with Training Guide) OVC (pending)

•First On Line Professional Conference on Abuse & Disability May 2004 (OVC with LifeNet & PCNY, grant to Arc Riverside) (pending)

More plans….

• Training program for Service Providers throughout California (2005) following Certification from Safe Place OVC Training program. (Individuals with cognitive & other developmental disabilities.)

• 10th National/3rd International Conference on Abuse of Children & Adults with Disabilities, Riverside Convention Center, March 2005.

• CAN DO Community Building through establishing community

Let’s stay in contact!!!

Website:

www.disability-abuse.com/cando

Visit the site to get core & updated information, check recent news items

Join the listserv to give & get consultation and information, submit your information for possible inclusion on the site

Email:

Jstream287@aol.com Tom@child-abuse.com

Nora@disability-abuse.com

Together we CAN DO it!

Thank you for joining the growing community of individuals and agencies advocating for

children with disabilities who become victims of child abuse and/or neglect. The contributions of each individual, when joined together, create a

better world for children with disabilities.