Prioritizing Child Welfare Initiatives

Defending Childhood Task Force Report: HHS Tentative Priorities April 12, 2013

HHS Tentative Priorities HHS convened ACYF, CDC, CMS, HRSA, and SAMHSA to prioritize recommendations in the Defending Childhood Task Force Report 10 Priorities focus on 3 areas: (1)Prevention; (2)Screening, Assessment, and Evidence-based approaches; and (3) Policy advancement

Prevention Activities Charge leaders at the highest levels of the executive and legislative branches of the federal government with the coordination and implementation of the recommendations in this report. 1.1 1.4 Ensure universal public awareness of the crisis of children exposed to violence and change social norms to protect children from violence and its harmful effects. 1.5 Incorporate evidence-based trauma-informed principles in all applicable federal agency grant requirements. 1.7 Continue to support and sustain the national data collection infrastructure for the monitoring of trends in children exposed to violence. Expand access to home visiting services for families with children who are exposed to violence, focusing on safety and referral to services. 4.1

Appropriate Screening, Assessment, and Use of Evidence-Based Approaches Where Appropriate 2.2 Ensure that all children exposed to violence are identified, screened, and assessed. 3.5 Provide trauma-specific treatments in all agencies and organizations serving children and families exposed to violence and psychological trauma that are suitable to their clinicians and staff members professional and paraprofessional roles and responsibilities. 6.1 Make trauma-informed screening, assessment, and care the standard in juvenile justice services. 6.3 Provide juvenile justice services appropriate to children s ethnocultural background that are based on an assessment of each violence-exposed child s individual needs.

Advancing Policy Develop and implement public policy initiatives in state, tribal, and local governments to reduce and address the impact of childhood exposure to violence. 1.9 * Bold Print= specific to the site

Defending Childhood Initiative Demonstration Sites ACYF CDC Boston, MA Discretionary Funding, Title IV-E Waiver SAMHSA SATED, Drug Free Communities STRYVE, UNITY City Network NCTSI, Teen Court, System of Care, SATED, Drug Free Communities SATED, Drug Free Communities Statewide Family Network, NCTSI, Statewide Family Network, Drug Free Communities Portland, ME Box Elder, MT Grant Forks, ND UNITY City Network Cleveland, OH STRYVE, UNITY City Network NCTSI, Drug Free Communities NCTSI NCTSI, Systems of Care Portland, OR Rosebud, SD Memphis, TN Discretionary Funding

National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Sites ACYF Boston, MA Discretionary Funding, Title IV-E Waiver Camden, NJ Chicago, IL Discretionary Funding, Title IV-E Waiver CDC STRYVE, UNITY City Network UNITY City Network SAMHSA SATED, DFC NCTSI Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, Dating Matters, UNITY City Network Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention, UNITY City Network Teen Court, NCTSI, SATED Teen Court, NCTSI, Project LAUNCH Detroit, MI Discretionary Funding, Title IV-E Waiver NCTSI, Systems of Care Memphis, TN Minneapolis, MN, New Orleans, LA Philadelphia, PA Discretionary Funding UNITY City Network NCTSI, DFC UNITY City Network NCTSI, SATED Discretionary Funding NCTSI, Drug Free Communities Teen Court, NCTSI, Drug Free Communities Teen Court, NCTSI, Drug Free Communities Discretionary Funding, Title IV-E Waiver Discretionary Funding STRYVE, Dating Matters, UNITY City Network STRYVE, Dating Matters Salinas, CA San Jose, CA Discretionary Funding