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A Rural Southern Illinois Medical Network for Abused Children: From Dream to Reality (Poster Session 11)

A Rural Southern Illinois Medical Network for Abused Children:
From Dream to Reality
(Poster Session 11)

This session describes the methods and results of an innovative rural medical model of collaboration in the care of abused and neglected children. The Children's Medical Resource Network, a program of the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics, provides competent, compassionate, geographically accessible care to the children of rural Southern Illinois, making care available where there previously was no specialized care for abused and neglected children. It is a successful model of rural collaboration between a medical school, state child welfare agency, local Children's Advocacy Centers, law enforcement, and the judicial system and could be replicated in other states with significantly underserved rural populations.

Deanna St. Germain, D.O.
Ginger Meyer, M.S.W.
School of Medicine
Children's Medical Resource Network
Southern Illinois University
P.O. Box 179
Anna, IL 62906

Cheryl Peterson, Ph.D.
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
406 E. Monroe Street
Springfield, IL 62701-1498

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Updated on February 24, 2010