National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
Teleconference Program
Cosponsored by the National Resource Center for Child Protective Services
KEEPING CHILDREN SAFE:
STRATEGIES TO REDUCE RECURRENCE OF MALTREATMENT
THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2006
RESOURCES
From the National Resource Center for Child Protective Services: www. nrccps.org:
Child Maltreatment Recurrence: A Leadership Initiative of the National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment. Principal Developers: John D. Fluke, Ph.D., Dana M. Hollinshead, MPA, MA, Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc. Published by National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment, January 2003. Available directly at http://nrccps.org/PDF/MaltreatmentRecurrence.pdf
This document states: ³There are some key features of child
maltreatment and child maltreatment intervention that can probably be relied upon and used to target resources aimed at reducing recurrence. The areas that are reviewed here for possible consideration in addressing program improvement to reduce recurrence include:
Ø Information System Improvement
Ø State Policy Improvement
o Safety and risk assessment
o Diversified response systems
Ø Intervention Targeting
o Characteristics of children
o Characteristics of perpetrators and families
o Ongoing service provision
o Service mechanisms for addressing target populations
Ø Research and Evaluation
o Develop an Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure to Monitor/Track Recurrence
o Identify Target Segments of the Families and Children Served and
Develop Service Intervention Strategies or Frameworks for the Target Populations
o Assess and Isolate Surveillance Effects
Child Maltreatment Recurrence: Supplement to the Briefing Paper on Child Maltreatment Recurrence: A Leadership Initiative of the National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment: National Resource Center on Child Maltreatment. Available directly at