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Cultural Considerations in Domestic Violence & Child Welfare Services
Beliefs, values, and customs can be critical to understanding a family's situation. Caseworkers need to be sensitive to cultural factors, language barriers, and legal status when developing service plans and working with children and families experiencing domestic violence and child abuse or neglect.
Activist Dialogues: How Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Systems Impact Women of Color and Their Communities (PDF - 276 KB)
Family Violence Prevention Fund (2005)
Presents findings, dialogues, and recommendations from a conference that brought together domestic violence organizations focusing on minority populations to explore how to improve services to battered women and their children and what can be done to prevent more of them from becoming involved in the system.
Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment in Native Communities
Goodmark
ABA Child Law Practice, 24(1), 2005
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Reviews the scope of the problem, unique issues and experiences of Native people that affect how these co-occurring issues are addressed, and changing practices. Highlights prevention efforts of the Sitka Safe Start Initiative, a collaboration between the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and community-based agencies.
Fostering Resilient Coping in Children Exposed to Violence: Cultural Considerations
Graham-Bermann & Halabu (2004)
In Protecting Children From Domestic Violence: Strategies for Community Intervention
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Uses examples from two culturally competent groups for children to illustrate the need to understand the wide range of circumstances experienced by children, the role of the therapist, the appropriateness of interventions, and the importance of recognizing positive aspects of the child's culture.
A Framework for Culturally Responsive Practice
Williams-Gray (2001)
In Culturally Diverse Parent-Child and Family Relationships: A Guide for Social Workers and Other Practitioners
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Examines the ecological, historical, and social influences on parent-child relationships, and provides guidelines for culturally sensitive practice when responding to situations involving discipline, child abuse, domestic violence, and substance abuse.
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