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Dependency Courts

• Relative Placement
• Link to final PowerPoint report

Foster Care

• FosterClub Publications: supporting young children and teens when they are placed in foster care
• Reducing the Trauma of Investigation, Removal, and Initial Out-of-Home Placement in Child Abuse Cases - An introduction

Strategic Planning for Child Safety

• Substance Abuse and Child Neglect: Action Planning Summits - July 2010 Final Report
• Promising Practices in Chronic Neglect - by Dee Wilson (PPT)
• Substance Abuse and Chronic Neglect - by Dee Wilson (PPT) 
  This information was presented at our Deschutes County Community Neglect Summit.

Children with Disabilities

• Effective Communication and Interviewing Skills for Children with Disabilities - by Scott Modell, PH.D.
  Our Children’s Justice Act Task Force contracted with Scott Modell, Ph.D. (Director, Autism Center for Excellence at California State University in Sacramento California), to present training about how to interview children with disabilities.
  
  This training was a multi-disciplinary training focused on reducing the trauma for children with disabilities, at the time they are removed from their home and placed into foster care.
  
  Please view the training PowerPoint presentations at the following links:
  • For General Audiences

  • For District Attorneys
     

• Demystifying Disability in Child Abuse Interviewing For additional information, please contact CARES Northwest at 503-276-9000.
• Project Ability: Interviewing Children with Disabilities

Teens

• Report on Teen Conference
• Promoting Community Protection of Adolescents, Part 1 | Part 2 (posted April 16, 2007)
• Intervention Strategies for Adolescent Victims of Maltreatment
• Putting the Pieces Together, Supporting Adolescent Success
• Workbook for Improving MDT Investigations
• Adolescent and Teens Project Final Report

Neglect

• CJA Neglect Study Final Report - Combined
• CJA Neglect Study - Supplemental Report
• Community Summits to Take Action on Child Neglect
• Community Child Neglect Summit Final Report

Systems Response

• Recent studies about child abuse and neglect reporting and training issues
• Systems grant report: Training for physicians
• Physicians stories about evaluating and reporting child abuse injuries
• Systems Response Final Report

Other

• CJA Report - Clackamas and Columbia Counties
• OJDC - A Guide for Foster Parents

• Video: The Role of Mandatory Reporters in Child Abuse Cases