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Research on Services for Domestic Violence & Child Maltreatment
Resources offering research findings on service needs, service utilization, and other service issues for families experiencing domestic violence and child abuse or neglect.
Assessment of Intimate Partner Violence by Child Welfare Services
Hazen, Connelly, Edleson, Kelleher, Landverk, & Coben, et al.
Children and Youth Services Review, 29(4), 2007
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Describes policy and practice with respect to the assessment of intimate partner violence in a national sample of child welfare agencies and to examine the relationship of contextual characteristics and assessment practices.
Building Safety for Battered Women and Their Children Into the Child Protection System: A Summary of Three Consultations (PDF - 518 KB)
Pence & Taylor (2003)
Discusses how the intervention of child protection agencies in the lives of battered women served to strengthen or weaken women's capacity to protect their children. Explores the effectiveness of using the Safety and Accountability Audit as a planning tool to analyze and change current practices.
Charging Battered Mothers With "Failure to Protect": Still Blaming the Victim
Ahearn, Hodes, Holmes, Shapiro, & Witherspoon
Fordham Urban Law Journal, 27, 2000
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Reviews the reasons why it is difficult for battered women to leave their situations, suggests New York implement some of the approaches that other States are using to provide comprehensive services, and provides recommendations for State legislation, pilot projects, training, and prevention services.
Child Welfare as a Gateway to Domestic Violence Services
Kohl, Barth, & Hazen (2005)
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Uses data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well Being to examine the identification of domestic violence by child welfare workers during investigations of maltreatment, and to determine how this contributes to receipt of domestic violence services.
Domestic Violence in Child Welfare
Postmus (2005)
In Child Welfare for the Twenty-First Century: A Handbook of Practices, Policies, and Programs
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Reviews definitions, the scope of the problem, and consequences; discusses the challenges faced by service providers; provides a brief description of State and local initiatives; and offers guidelines for practice.
Don't Take My Kids: Barriers to Service Delivery for Battered Mothers and Their Young Children
DeVoe & Smith (2003)
In The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Children
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Presents findings from a focus group of women in New York City from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds that explored experiences of and barriers to help-seeking among mothers of children under 6 years of age. Suggests implications for service delivery.
Emerging Issues Related to Domestic Violence and Child Welfare
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement (2003)
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Provides information on practices and controversies in this area as the field continues to explore new ways of understanding and working with victims and perpetrators.
A Framework for Understanding the Nature and Dynamics of Domestic Violence
Missouri Coalition Against Domestic Violence (2001)
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Identifies manifestations of physical abuse, rape and sexual abuse, and psychological abuse; reviews survival strategies used by victims; explores direct and indirect effects on children; describes services needed by victims; and provides an overview of judicial system remedies and interagency collaborations for prevention and intervention.
Overview of the Children and Domestic Violence Services Study
Smith, Kelleher, Barth, & Coben (2005)
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Provides an overview of the methodology used in the Children and Domestic Violence Study that collected detailed, contextual data on the organization and relationship of child welfare services for children and domestic violence services for women.
Social Work Responses to Domestic Violence in the Context of Child Protection
Bell (2000)
In Psychodynamic Perspectives on Abuse: The Cost of Fear
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Explores transactions among practitioners, families, and organizations working with families, drawing on two research studies that identified the needs of children and young people who had witnessed and/or experienced violence against their mothers; investigates involvement of parents in child protection investigations; and presents results from the study.
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