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Home My WebLink AboutMINUTES - 03052002 - SD4 e TO: BOARD OF SUPERVISORSAN ONTRA COSTA FROM: John Sten, County Administrator COUNT` or.Witl am Walker, Health Services Director DATE: March 5, 2002 SUBJECT: "Safe from the Stam" Day—4ftrth 12, 2002 SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONtSt= ADOPT Resolution 20021113, declaring Larch 12, 2002 as "Safe from the Start" day in Contra Costa County in support of the statewide "Safe from the Start" Expo to be held on that day. BA+CKGR�RMSON(S) FOR REC IE.NDATICtN(Sl ' On March 12, 20012' the statewide "Safe from the Start: Fools for the Future Expo" will be held: in Sacramento. This event is part of the ongoing "Safe from the Start" initiative, sponsored by the California Attorney General's {efface, the California Children and Families Commission, the California Health and Human Services Agency and other partners. "Safe from the Start" is devoted to activities that reduce children's exposure to violence: Contra Costa County has been recognized as a statewide leader in this area for its commitment to reducing children's exposure to violence, both through the "Zero Tolerance for'Domestic 'Violence initiative (which includes development and implementation of the countywide 'Family Violence Prevention Action Pian") and the support of the Children and Families Policy Forum, which devoted its July, 2001 Quarterly Meeting to "Safe from the Start" and is planning a follow--up workshop with technical assistance from the Attorney General's Office in April, 2002. Contra Costa County's efforts will be recognized among the "best practices" outlined at the Expo; County representatives have also been invited to participate in a parcel discussion at the Expo '"Changing Community'Systems CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _X_YES SIGNATURE: RECOIUINIEN-DATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR—RECOMMENDATION OF iTTEE „APPROVE OTHER SIGNATURE(S). , .. ACTIONN OF'idA & I• APPROVED As RECOMMENDED OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS "�f I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS 1S A hl UNANIMOUS(ASSENT TRUE AND CORRECT'COPY OF AN AYES: NOES. ACTION TAKEN AND ENTERED ABSENT: ABSTAIN. ON MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE'SHOWN. Contact: ChftUna Linville,Deputy County Administrator ATTESTED,� Jori SWEETEN,CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR CC. Or.Wendel Brunner,Director of Public Heaft Tracy Rwbw.,Doctor,Community manerss and Prevention Progr Mare de Porres Tayfor,Aset,Director,CiAiPP � Denise gland,California Attorney General'$Office0 /i, B DEPUTY` In the Matter of"Safe from the Start"Day ) March 12,2002 ) RESOLUTION NO.2002A13 WHEREAS the Board of Supervisors recognizes that children who are exposed to violence can suffer serious short-term and long-.term effects, including physical and mental trauma, difficulty in school performance, depression, eating and sleeping problems and decreased responsiveness to adults;AND WHEREAS adverse childhood experiences such as witnessing or experiencing physical or sexual violence are strong predictors of health behaviors in adolescence and adulthood, putting people with: histories of adverse childhood experiences at higher"tisk of alcoholism, drug abuse, depression,'~suicide attempts, smoking, and higher numbers of sexual partners, ANIS;: WHEREAS the "Safe'kfrorri'Y the':Start" initiative, a comprehensive strategy to reduce children's exposure to violence, is coordinated by `016 California Attorney General's Office in partnership with ythe Children and Families Camrnissicrn, California Health and Human Services Agency, California D�partrnent of Social Services, Cities, Counties and Schools (CCS) Partnership and Court T/; AND WHEREAS the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors has demonstrated its support for and commitment to reducingchidrer�'s exposure to violence by: ➢ Sending County staff to participate the "Safe from the Start" regional workshop in >, mppr, 2040, 19h7ing other counties around the slate to develop recommendations for policy reports and commurtr#y atG►n plans for educing childn's`expaure to.violence; A Supporting the im lemen#ation vt#tie Contra Costa County,Family Violence Preventiarr Acf�on flan and Its objectives that align with reducing t;hildr�en's exposure to violence, for example, working with educa#ors to establish and expand agerappropap roventron education; ➢ Launching the"Z rn 7"tii�rrrnce'ft7r r7arriesfic Violence"initiative, which supports a variety of activities that help.reduce child e -46 violence,.in October, 2044; ➢ Making "Safe from the Starf"the topic of the Children and Families Policy Foram Quarterly'rheefing in Julyy, 2001, bringing logethe f local experts to exchange promising.practices information and resources for re ficing,children's expowr..e to violence; ➢ Utilizing technical assistance through the California Attorney General's Office to plan a half-day. Nsele frog» the Start" workshc h,A 1,r2 02:iANl7 WHEREAS the California Atta.mey,Gei'irt�l"s Crime and Vro[en Prevention Canter is sponsoring the "Safe from the Start:'tools for'the Future" E pa on'March 12, 24012, bnng ng�together low egforc.ernent, educators, social services, flaalth 9re and community service providers to ioarrl about strategres"';;hat work to reduce children's exposure ;to'violence, "how to increase resources devoted' to services for children and how to evaluate promising pragrar asp AND WHEREAS Contra CostaCounty has.been invited'-to share promising practices and participate on the "How to Change Community`Systems, panel",at the„March 12; 2002 "SO `frorm,the Start” Expo; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED'that the Contra Costa County ward of Supervisors declares March 12, 2002 to be"Safe from the Start"Day in Contra Costa County. PASSED by a unanimous vote of the B d of pervsors members present this 5th day of March,2001. JOHN 6101 A Chair District I Supervisor AYLE B.UltkEfAA D A GERBER District H Supervisor Dis icor MARK DeSAULNIER FEDERAL D.GLOVER District IV Supervisor District V Supervisor 1 hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of an action taken and entered on the minutes of the Board of Supervisors on the date shown: ATTESTED: March 5,2002 JOHN SWEETEN,Clerk of the Board of Supervisors and County inistrator e BYduh, x a t s s� x rolicy liftis RVUVI r ' rk)I I I th^ r ^ r } �r Safe from the Start Reducing Children's Exposure to Violence Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums September 2001 California Attorney General's Office Bill Loekyer, Attorney General 3 Vision and History............ .............. ........... ....................................... 1 RegionalForums ....................................................................,...... 2 Policy Recommendations ........... ................................................... 3 Appendix A - Feedback From Forums ............................................... 9 Appendix B - Local Co-Sponsors..................................................... 20 Appendix C - Information Resources............................................... 24 These Policy Recommendations were produced by the California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center under a grant with the California Children and Families Commission: Interagency Agreement#CCFC-6800 This document has been written in collaboration with i-e. communications,LLC San Francisco, California. P rr Safe From The Start's Reducing Children's Exposure to Violence • An estimated one out of every four children in California is directly exposed to violence as a victim or witness.' • In 2000, California reported that 666,497 children were referred for investigation for child abuse and neglect.2 ■ The number of children in foster care in California has tripled over the last 15 years.3 • Young children exposed to violence are at increased'risk for developmental and behavioral problems that can manifest in school as AttentionDeficit Disorder, Hyperactivity Disorder or Seriously Emotionally Disturbed classifications. These children are at serious risk for school failure.4 • Childhood abuse and neglect increases the odds of arrest as a juvenile by 59 percent, arrest as an adult by 28 percent and arrest for a violent crime by 30 percent.5 ■ California has the highest rate of juvenile incarceration in the country.G Incarceration of juveniles costs California nearly $42,000 per year, per child.' ■ The Centers for Disease Control has recently identified four broad strategies that are effective in preventing youth violence. Two of these work by preventing children's exposure to violence through parent-based and family-based interventions and home visits.8 ■ Home visitation by nurses is a cost-effective method for reducing family violence and improving outcomes forat-risk children. Two years of nurse home visiting costs just $12,000 per child, and saves up to $24,000 per child by the time the child reaches age 15.9 For more information on Safe from the Start, contact the California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center at(916) 324-7863 or visit www,safefromthestart.org, (Remove this page and post) Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Helping Traumatized Children:A Brief Overview for Caregivers,by Bruce Perry,M.D,,Ph.D.,ChildTrauma Academy,August 1999 State of California,Child Welfare Services/Case Management Systems,Preplacement Prevention Services,Emergency Response and Family Maintenance Activity,for the annual period ending December 31,2000, 3 Barbara Needell,M,S.W.,Ph.D.and Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin,Graduate Researcher,University of California at Berkeley Helping Traumatized Children:A Brief Overview for Caregivers,by Bruce Perry,M.D.,Ph.D.,ChildTrauma Academy,August 1999 s "An Update on the'Cycle of Violence',"National Institute of Justice Research Brief,February 2001,Cathy S.Widom and Michael G: Maxfield e State Custody Pates 1997,Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention/National Center on Juvenile Justice,December 2000 ' California Youth Authority,FY 00-01 Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention:A Sourcebook for Community Action,US Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,2000: 9 "Early Childhood interventions: Benefits;Costs and Savings,"Rand Research Brief 5014,1998. Y isto The purpose of the Safe from the Start project is to assist local communities in reducing children's exposure to violence. Our vision is an improved system of local, regional and statewide collaboration, through which all community part- ners contribute their unique capabilities and resources toward the shared goal of keeping California's children safe. Research shoves that children between the ages of 0 and 5 who are exposed to abuse or domestic violence are severely and permanently affected by it, even if they are not the intended victims. They are more likely to have difficulty in school, both in their learning abilities and in their interactions with teachers and other students. As children who are exposed to violence mature, they may have True and lasting problems forming intimate relationships, finding and keeping steady employ- ment, or staying out of trouble. These young people are also at greater risk for changes will only: violent behavior or victimization. The use of sophisticated brain research made possible by the development of new medical technology, shows that there is a come through the physiological impact on children who are exposed to violence. The behavior of these children is similar to people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. creation of self The impact of violence on children requires a new and broader approach to sustaining, flexible violence prevention and intervention. It requires that all community members work closely to identify children at risk of exposure to violence, to prevent and innovative exposure when possible and to respond earlier and more effectively when solutions Which' children have been exposed. have the full faith HI.S tory and support of any In December 1998, the U.S. Department of Justice launched the Children entity... which has- Exposed to Violence Initiative, a nationwide effort to: seek new and effective means to prevent children's exposure to violence; develop earlier and more a stake in the effective intervention strategies; and find better ways to hold perpetrators success of the accountable. Since 1997, the California Attorney General's Office has been active in Shifting effort. the Focus. This interagency group, comprised of over 30 state agencies, is working to develop a framework for state-level collaboration on violence preven- tion to maximize resources and improve support to local communities. -Bruce Perry,M.D.,Ph.D. Safe from the Start brought these two efforts together. Launched at a Statewide Symposium on May 17, 2000 in Los Angeles, the first Safe from the Start event in California brought together 654 policymakers, law enforcement officials, health professionals, community leaders and child service providers to learn about the effects of exposure to violence on children. After the Symposium, the Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center (CVPC), California Children and Families Commission and California Health and Human Services Agency began planning a series of Safe from the Start Regional Forums. 1 Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Stateside Regional Forums Three primary objectives were established for the!Regional Forums: 1) Educate local law enforcement and their,community partners about the effects of exposure to violence on children. 2) -Encourage collaboration between law enforcement, health and social services agencies, schools and ether community partners to develop and implement effective strategies for reducing children's exposure to violence. 3) Listen to recommendations from partners about how state government can assist them in furthering local efforts. Safe from the Start Reonal Forums To build collaboration within regions, CVP C encouraged participants to attend In order to ensure the forums in multi-disciplinary, multi-jurisdictional teams. Between September 19 and December 12, 2000, more than 1400 leaders from around the state that each Regional participated in one of nine Safe from the Start Regional Forums. These leaders came from 54 of California's 58 counties, and included local law enforcement Forum Was "locally officers, educators and health and social services professionals. A tenth Forum, owned"and truly for leaders from the four counties that were notable to attend, has been sched- uled for September, 2001. reflected the needs During the first part of each forum, participants heard from local, state and, of focal partners, national experts about the latest research on children's exposure to violence; and about promising strategies in prevention and intervention. During the second We identified and part, participants worked within their teams to address the following four key contacted violence questionsand build a framework for future collaborative efforts: • What is your community doing now for children exposed to violence? prevention leaders ' What else would you like to do (e.g.,what gaps in services would you like to fill based on what you have learned today?) in each county.' Flow can the state assist you? • What are your next steps? These Kcal leaders All teams then reported their answers back to the entire group. It is this input Were invited to that formed the foundation for the policy recommendations: participate in To help plan the Regional Forums, CVPC convened an Interagency Regional planning the Forums Advisory Council comprised of representatives from the California Department of Justice, California Health and Human Services Agency; California Regional Forums. Department of Health Services, California Department of Education, California Children and Families Commission, California Department of Social Services, Governor's Office of Criminal Justice Planning, California Department of Mental Health, California Youth Authority, California Department of Alcohol and Drug Bill Lockyer, Programs, and other organizations with an interest in this issue including the California Attorney Cities, Counties, Schools Partnership,: the Riverside County Sheriffs Department, General the California School Boards;Association, the League of California Cities and the California Crime Prevention Officers Association. 2 Recommendations from the Regional Forums The over 1400 participants who attended the Regional Forums suggested many valuable and creative strategies. The following five recommendation areas include 22 strategies to assist local communities in reducing children's exposure to violence: • Build A Collaborative Effort • Build Local Capacity Through Training and Technical Assistance • Support Local Efforts • Increase Public Awareness • Support Families Some of these strategies may require state action; others can be implemented Getting the by county boards of supervisors, mayors, city councils, school boards, sheriffs, concept of how police chiefs and community members. violence affects Recommendation One brain development Build A► Collaborative Effort into the community has created an One unifying theme arose from the Statewide Symposium and nine Regional Forums: every community member has a role and a responsibility to get in- atmosphere where volved in reducing children's exposure to violence. This sentiment was echoed people are talking in the testimony of Grantland Johnson, Secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, at the March 2001 Joint Legislative Hearing on Safe and willing to come from the Start: "Our neighborhoods will not be safe for our children until all up with solutions the institutions and residents within them assume shared responsibility for protecting and shielding children from violence." to this growing Communities are made up of an assortment of formal and informal institutions problem. —government, businesses, foundations, service providers, law enforcement, schools, churches, childcare providers and advocates. Each institution has a 11 different time, place and manner of working with children and families, and -Forum participant each offers a valuable perspective. To reduce children's exposure to violence, all these institutions must work together to design effective prevention and intervention strategies. Strategies: 1 Establish multi-disciplinary response teams (MDRTs) to respond to incidents involving children exposed to violence. MDRTs achieve greater coordination and effectiveness in responding to children's exposure to violence and preventing 3 Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums further exposure. MDRTs also permit sharing of confidential information be- tween schools, law enforcement and other partners. These teams may include law enforcement, child protective services, education, health, mental health, and community-based organizations providing essential support services to parents and families. 2. Train professionals from different disciplines who must work with each other to prevent or respond to children who are exposed to violence. Law enforcement, social workers, domestic violence victims' advocates and mental health professionals receiving training together on critical issues can help strengthen efforts. Professionals training together promotes development of trust and understanding among partners from different disciplines and enhances collaboration. 3. Develop protocols for local health care providers who provide prenatal screening for new mothers to identify children exposed to violence. Protocols can help determine what follow-up services will be provided for families deter mined to be at risk. 4. Establish an infrastructure to promote support services for students in elementary, middle and high schools, and their families, including but not limited to: • Guidance counselors Mental health professionals • School nurses • Probation officers • Community policing officers Adult and peer mentors • Violence prevention and cultural diversity curricula Recommendation Two Build Local Capacity Through Training and Technical Assistance The most common requests from local partners at the Regional Forums (apart from more funding for local violence prevention efforts) included: • More information about strategies that work. • Training and technical assistance to help local communities choose, imple- ment and evaluate successful collaborative strategies. Coordination of state and local efforts in collecting and using meaningful data on children's exposure to violence. Training needs most frequently identified by participants included: program evaluation, grant writing, sharing of confidential information, cultural compe tency, working in multidisciplinary teams and using data. 4 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide.Regional Forums Strategies: 1. Provide training for criminal justice professionals, including law enforcement personnel, probation/parole officers and family court judges, on the effects of children's exposure to violence, and on identifying and responding to children exposed to violence. Training should include working with Californians of varying backgrounds and dissemination of multi-lingual training tools(e.g. videos, bro- chures, pamphlets.) 2. Enhance the Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST)curriculum to include training for peace officers on identifying and responding appropriately to children who have been traumatized by violence, even when they are not the direct victims of violence. 3. Train local providers on the rules governing sharing of confidential information. 4. Offer training in grant writing and in identifying funding sources that can be used for Safe from the Start strategies and programs. 5. Record the presence of children at violent incidents, when they have been ex- posed to violence, such as domestic violence calls for service. Identifying these children can help in better providing them services. For this purpose, reporting forms have been developed by the Contra Costa and Tulare County Sheriff's Departments and the Santa Barbara Police Department, among others. (See Appendix C for contact information.) We are very 6. Train childcare providers to recognize the signs that may indicate that a child has excited' to have a been exposed'to violence and develop protocols for responding to this information. 7. Collaborate with local Children and Families Commissions when determining tangible program strategies and funding for programs to reduce children's exposure to violence. in our community to make a positive Recommendation Three change in Support Local Efforts children's lives. Just as different agencies and professionals within n each local-community must work together to reduce children's exposure to violence, so must the state and -Forum participant local governments collaborate to ensure that their programs are not duplicative or counter-productive. Safe from the Start participants gave numerous recom- mendations on how the state could better support local efforts. At every Regional Forum, attendees called upon the state to provide more flexible funding for violence`prevention and to sustain funding for successful programs. Areas of particular need identified by participants included; • Recruiting and retaining more highly trained staff to work with at-risk children and families. Providing supervised after-school activities for all children and youth who need them. Increasing the quality and affordability of childcare. 5 Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Attendees also called upon the state to give local>communities more informa- tion to help them choose effective violenceprevention strategies and reduce the number of rules governing how communities implement those strategies.' Participants were concerned about categorical funding as a barrier to'effective program planning and delivery, and called upon the state to adopt a "results accountability" approach. Ideally, the state should determine tht? outcomes to be achieved and 'local communities should'have the flexibility to design'strate- gies for achieving those outcomes in ways that best meet the needs of local communities. To ensure that programs are able to demonstrate success in terms of outcomes, participants recommended that the state permit grantees to use a higher percentage of grant funding for planning, research,'data collection and evaluation. Attendees at many of the Regional Forums also called upon the state to be more responsive to rural issues and needs. In particular, many attendees identi fied rules prohibiting the use of funds'for client transportation as a major obstacle to effective service delivery in rural areas. Strategies: 1. Identify and share information about promising strategies through confer- ences, a "Promising Strategies/Program Evaluation Guidebook" and the Safe from the Start website(vvww.safefromthestart.org)'. Promising strategies information should include the following: a. Type of strategy (e.g., home visiting,'mentoring, therapeutic); b. Goals, time frame, and outcome measurements; c. Findings of any external evaluations; d. Definition of target population (e.g., age, gender, ethnicity,',geographic location, high-risk); e. Location of services (e.g., home, school, community center); f. Methods for obtaining community input and ownership; g. Staff roles, capabilities and training requirements; h.Funding requirements and sources; i. Participant recruitment methods; and j. Quality control methods and outcome evaluation.' 2. Communicate and share ideas and strategies with local Children and Families Commissions. 3. Develop and advertise aweb-based clearinghouse on violence prevention, including promising practices, current'national and statewide statistics, and other information that will help local communities to create successful''grant applications, develop necessary and relevant programs, promote statewide' ` communication and help analyze the problem from a larger perspective. 4 Review rules governing violence prevention funding from all state agencies to reduce unnecessary restrictions on use of funding, improve program effective- ness and encourage blending of funding from different sources'. 6 Safe From The Start•Poiicy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums 5. Motivate and assist local communities in getting local Safe from the Start projects started by providing training and technical assistance. 6. Initiate and provide support for legislation to create and sustain community- based violence prevention efforts. Recommendation Four Increase Public Awareness Participants at all Regional Forums recommended that state and local govern- ments do everything possible to raise public awareness about the importance of a comprehensive, early approach to reduce children's exposure to violence. Participants strongly recommended the development of a statewide public awareness campaign. The audiences for this campaign could be policymakers, professionals who work with children and families and parents. Participants Abuse, intolerance stressed that this campaign would need to be culturally competent and multi- and apathy are lingual in order to be effective. cancers of the Strategies: 1. Implement a statewide public awareness campaign on the effects of violence human experience. on children. Such a campaign would use a range of "social marketing" tools We often refuse to and techniques to inform and educate the general public, including billboards, television and radio advertising, and earned media coverage (e.g., editorial check Ourselves for coverage and reportage). This would ensure that the Safe from the Start mes- sage reaches target audiences including parents of young children, socially theft presence and isolated parents and daycare providers. ignore the suns 2. Partner with other agencies and groups currently doing public service cam- paigns on youth violence prevention. until it is too late. �I Recommendation Five -Forum participant Support Families Regional Forum participants felt strongly that prevention must begin with families, and made many recommendations aimed at strengthening the ability of parents to protect and nurture their children. Many parents do not know how malleable the brains of young children are, and the importance that educa- tion can make in reducing children's exposure to violence. Strategies: 1. Provide and publicize community-based educational and supportive services for first-time parents. Effective strategies include home visiting, drop-in family 7 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums resource centers, parenting classes, individual and family counseling, parent support groups and �4-hour helplines, .(See Appendix C for contact information) 2. Fund and encourage all new parents to take advantage of parent education courses. 3. Involve schools in educating parents of school-age children about the potential effects of exposure to domestic violence on children's learning ability, through school-based evening classes, home visits and written materials sent home with students. Topics might include child brain development, post-traumatic stress disorder, attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity disorder. 8 Appendix A Poney Recommendations From The Forums The recommendations and strategies in the main body of this report represent a synthesis of the ideas and,suggestions that emerged most frequently from participants at the nine Regional Forums. However, each Forum also produced some unique recommendations and strategysuggestions, reflecting the unique perspectives and priorities of that Forum's participants. The following is a listing of all the policy recommendations and strategies forwarded to us by partici- pants at the Regional Forums. South Central Valley Regional Forums - Fresno September 19, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Strengthen the infrastructure of support services at each school to include: - Counseling resources. - Conflict resolution classes. Peer mentoring. Cultural diversity training. - Training for teachers-educators re: symptoms of exposure to violence. Parent training at elementary schools. - Provide prenatal screening for all new mothers. • Mandate medical personnel to report at-risk pregnancies (e.g., minors, maternal drugs or alcohol use). • Offer tax incentives for large corporations to support_community-based violence prevention. • Expand community-based mental health services. • Increase the number of community based mental health facilities for youth (both residential and drop-in). 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Help communities identify needs and resources; • Offer more training for law enforcement in child abuse, domestic violence and professional development. • Include a learning block in Police Officer'Standards and Training (POST) on strategies for children exposed to domestic violence; Improve the quality of childcare through more comprehensive provider training: • Provide personalized, localized low-cost or no-cost training in Central Valley and other rural areas. • Offer technical assistance to law enforcement agencies on program evalu- ation, research techniques, proposal development and data collection. 9 Safe From The Start•policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums • Provide better data on family violence, • Gather and share data on the long-term effects of home visiting. • Enhance access to technology that assists the reporting process. • Conduct follow-up to ensure ideas offered at this forum are continued. 3. Support Local Efforts * Refrain from cuts in funding for programs that are performing. • Remove barriers to services • Offer more local control and fewer mandates. Offer better coordination of services at the state level. • Ensure better accountability by determining goals. However, let locals determine how to meet those goals through community-based programs that address community needs. The state should provide incentives where possible. * Reduce the amount of red tape and paperwork in programs. • Decrease turf issues. • Disseminate model programs and best practices to the field. • Do not mandate one specific program model. • Create a state resources directory. • Be more responsive to rural issues and needs (e.g.,';transportation). • Provide waivers to permit sharing of confidential information. • Provide funding to hire more social workers, and community health aides, and pay them well. • Strengthen child welfare laws to define and address the emotional impact of parental violence on young children. • Hold public forums to facilitate networking 4. Increase Public Awareness • Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign. • Do a better job of promoting Domestic Violence Week. • Create educational materials for teachers, parents and foster parents. • Create more publications for local use. 5. Strengthen Families • Provide compensation for stay-at-home moms. • Guarantee three-month paid maternity leaves. • Offer parent education, home visiting and mentoring programs to parents: of newborns. • Create more family resource centers. • Create 24-hour hotlines for parents under stressand for youth who are exposed to violence. • Provide affordable individualandfamily counseling for parents, families and youth. Target eligibility for mental health and substance abuse treatment pro- grams to parents with dual diagnoses: Subsidize childcare and transportation. • Create community outreach clinics. 10 Safe From The Start•Poky Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forams Northern Regional Forum - Redding September 25, 20 t. Build A Collaborative Effort-Bring All Partners to the Table Mandate a coordinated approach by counties. + Mandate interagency compliance to help break down barriers between agencies. • Create more specialty domestic violence (DV)teams. Establish a DV council. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Bring Safe from the Start(SETS)forums to individual counties. Provide incentives to encourage local participation. • Provide SETS training on-site to teachers, school personnel and parents. • Educate judges and court mediators on SFTS. • Mandate SFTS training for judicial officials and law enforcement personnel. • Offer ongoing support to local collaborative efforts. • Conduct planning sessions for local providers. • Offer curriculum and training for county workers, police officers, licensed childcare providers, teachers and other school personnel. • Provide training in grant writing. • Develop a common language, data collection and reporting systems that all agencies can utilize. • Develop and train an early childhood team within Child Protective Services (CPS) for child welfare workers to refer to for assistance 3. Support Local Efforts • Ensure consistent laws, policies and consequences. • Make grants that ensure accountability by determining goals. Let locals determine how to meet those goals through community-based programs. Provide incentives where possible. • Remove barriers to delivering services and allow delivery of services before problems reach crisis proportions. • Reduce boundaries for categorical funding. • Stop creating state pilots. + Disseminate model programs to the field. • Create a cross-agency glossary of terms. • Let communities develop their own action plans. • Fund mental health services for young children. • Increase funding for Healthy Start and other school support staff(e.g., social workers, counselors). • Fund 2"d Step curriculum kits for Head Start. • Fund the Drug Endangered Children program. • Help with transportation costs. • Grant green cards to illegal aliens who graduate from high school. • Require anger management classes for K-12. •Assist in developing (or publicizing the existence of) confidentiality protocols that do not serve as barriers to interdisciplinary services. • Publicize DV protocols already in place. • Recognize the differences between urban and rural needs and resources. • Create better working-relationships with tribal governments. f1 Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums 4. Increase Public Awareness Create a statewide public awareness campaign. Design a curriculum and "toolkits" to help teach DV prevention. Expand the role of community education. 5. Strengthen Families • Require anger management class as part of probation for DV offenses. • Fund 52 weeks of anger abatement for all adults arrested based on initial DV report. • Provide SIFTS teaching kits for parenting classes. • Provide respite care for parents without labeling children at risk. North Central Valley Regional Forum - Sacramento October 12, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort- Bring All Partners to the Table • Motivate community leaders to participate. Help develop partnerships between law enforcement and private sector. • Mandate school-based education on family violence. • Provide an infrastructure of support services at each school including counseling resources and after-school recreation. • Set a minimum ratio of support personnel for school districts. • Provide training and set standards for school resource officers. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Inform county agency heads of circumstances under which confidential information may be shared and demonstrate^how to share information in multi-disciplinary teams. • Provide training in grant writing. • Create a list of qualified trainers in child development. • Provide facilitators for collaborations. • Provide seminars and speakers for local conferences. • Offer diagnostic and assessment tools. • Update all DV training curricula to include the effects on children. • Collect statewide data on children exposed to violence. 3. Support Local Efforts Sustain funding of effective programs for at least three years. increase the flexibility of grant funding; make block grants. • Evaluate and disseminate best practices. • Promote networking among California counties. • Publicize what state resources are available. • Provide updates on court cases and new laws. • Bring more programs to rural areas and recognize that small counties have the same problems as large counties, but fewer resources. Communicate with other state agencies regarding Native American issues. • Support the Boys & Girls Clubs and other mentoring programs. • Fund violence prevention education especially at the lower grades. Fund multi-cultural domestic violence shelters with bilingual staff. 12 Safe From The Start,Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums 4. Increase Public Awareness • Create and offer an in-depth local public awareness campaign. • Encourage the inclusion of public awareness components within requests for proposals, 5. Strengthen Families • Create additional therapeutic foster homes. • Mandate random drug testing of foster parents. • Prosecute parents who are doing drugs while children are in the house. • Give immigrant women in abusive situations a way to leave without being penalized for not having their own green card. • Give children who are exposed to violence legal rights as victims. Central Coast Regional forum - Santa Barbara October 30, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Require family daycare providers to take a violence prevention course as a condition of licensing. • Facilitate communication between law enforcement and social workers. • Mandate that educators be trained in early intervention and identification of family violence. • Require schools to identify a violence prevention coordinator and provide release time for this person. • Allow churches to work with schools and other places that provide informa- tion:to meet the spiritual needs of parents and children. • Provide tax incentives to employers who provide family violence prevention to employees: 2. Build' Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Include the effects of DV on children within the Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) training for law enforcement officers. • Identify best practices for Latino communities.' • Help lower roadblocks related to confidentiality. • Offer training in grant writing. • Conduct Train-the-Trainers sessions. • Help coordinate county response teams. • Attend our Prevention Alliance meetings. 3. Support Local Efforts • Establish state and local desired outcomes. • Model collaboration between state agencies. - Coordinate family violence prevention strategies at the state level - Sustain funding for effective programs. - Provide block grants to counties to reduce'competition for funds and increase effective service. - Develop and maintain a long-term, user-friendly categorical grant program. - Provide sustainable funding for Healthy Start Programs: 13 .............. ............... ........... Safe From The Start Pbficy Recommendations from the Statewde Reponal Forums • Provide (additional)funding for: Research; Smaller counties; Strategic planning and coordination; and Conferences. • Fund the violence prevention pilot programs that were not refunded through CDSS/0CAP, 4. Increase Public Awareness • Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign Inland Empire Orange Regional Forum - San Bernardino November 14, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Provide an infrastructure of support services at each school that includes: counselors; probation officers; community resource officers; parenting classes; and, anger management classes. Make connections between schools and colleges and universities, includ- ing the University of California and California State University systems. • Encourage medical and public health schools to have interns out in the field promoting violence prevention. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Provide training for law enforcement on how to be sensitive to cultural diversity when responding to DV calls. Provide SFTS training to law enforcement, judges, DAs, parents, students and teachers. • Produce multi-cultural training tools (e.g., videos, brochures, pamphlets.) • Provide training for all public services departments. • Design software for tracking outcomes and measurements. Create national tracking system for children exposed to violence. 3. Support Local Efforts • Facilitate coordination between state agencies and counties. • Make block grants instead of categorical grants. • Take the lead in "blended funding." • Sustain funding for effective programs over a longer period. • Provide more funding for: substance abuse treatment; incentives to encourage talented young people to pursue careers in education, public health nursing and social services; "scared straight" programs; early childhood programs; universal quality daycare; and, parenting education. 14 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Delete duplicate programs. • Provide best practices information_ • Create a web-based searchable database of data, services, funding and other information resources,with a hard copy version updated annually. • Develop and distribute comprehensive resource lists for each county. Require school records regarding child abuse to follow students. + Encourage Americorps to direct some of their workers into programs for children exposed to violence. + Increase funding for county behavioral health departments, which are cur- rently below par in helping kid's because they are poorly staffed. Createincentivesfor recruitment of public health nurses. • Hear truancy cases in juvenile traffic court. • Create a toll-free hotline for kids to call and report incidents. • Create licensing ratings for child care. Reduce licensing fees as quality in- creases. • Forgive student loan debt for students who work in violence prevention. 4. Increase Public Awareness • Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign. • Create a 24-hour hotline for immediate translation or cross-cultural assistance. • Design resources and educational materials in different languages. 5. Strengthen Families • Train home visitors to visit on a weekly basis weekly families with younger children. • Start a parent support "warm" line. • Reorganize Child Protective Services to make it more prevention oriented. • Provide more ongoingparenting classes. Southern Regional Forum - San Diego November 16, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Publicize benefits of collaboration, especially within schools to get full participation. • Require health insurance companies and HMOs to train their providers to screen for DV, and child abuse, and make such screens reimbursable. • Mandate comprehensive health assessments for children exposed to violence. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Disseminate best practices. • Create a resource manual. • Disseminate brain research more widely via funding opportunities and programs. • Create and disseminate diagnostic and assessment tools. • Host state-facilitated conferences in each city to exchange ideas:.for violence prevention programs. 15 ............................. Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums 3. Support Local Efforts • Sustain funding for effective programs. • Fund on the idea of "Leap of Faith." • Improve the quality of childcare via early childhood development standards and increased training. • Fund after-school programs. Fund planning as well as implementation. • Fund parenting education. 4. Increase Public Awareness • Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign that fully respects childcare workers, teachers and educators. Create a help line. 5. Strengthen Families • Fund family-life courses and parenting education beginning in elementary school. • Subsidize stay-at-home parenting for first three years of a child's life. Give a tax credit if parent attends parenting classes. • Mandate universal home visiting with in-home assessments. Bay Area Regional Forum - Berkeley December 5 200 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table Fund development of multi-disciplinary teams. • Train law enforcement officials in how to build partnerships, as part of community policing, to include private sector organizations, such as churches Train clergy to deliver the SFTS message to congregations. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Disseminate best practices. Assist in data collection and reporting. 3. Support Local Efforts Create a pilot project with Safe Start collaborative agencies. Increase the flexibility of funding to meet local needs. Ensure accountability by determining outcomes and basic protocols. Let locals determine how to meet those outcomes. • Develop concrete guidelines for services provided. • Reduce paperwork associated with categorical funding. • Remove barriers to delivering services and allow delivery of services before problems reach crisis proportions. • Pass legislation to protect client confidentiality for undocumented families and encourage requests for needed services. • Conduct evaluations on how perpetrators have been affected by violence. • Offer funding for rural areas. 16 Safe From The Start+Policy Recommendations from the StatewideRegional Forums • Fund recruitment and retention of highly trained youth development staff. • Create anti-bias curriculum. 4. Increase Public Awareness • Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign. • Educate Governor Davis on importance of SIFTS. 5. Strengthen Families • Produce a parents' guide to watching TV with your children aged 0-5. • Offer family counseling and parenting education. • Make childcare tax deductible. • Offer better wages for childcare workers. • Fund'after-school programs and childcare. • Subsidize slots at high-quality child development centers for children of DV victims. • Provide financial support tax deductions for higher education and job training. • Help families with children meet their basic needs, including: -safe and affordable housing; -jobs; and, - health care. South Bay Regional Forum - San Jose December 12, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Have social workers in all schools. • Inform local Prop. 10 commissions of upcoming events; seminars and programs. • Encourage public agencies to be more collaborative with the community and employ consumers to guide program'design. 2. Build Local Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and data • Give SFTS presentation to chiefs of police; • Offer training in child abuse and DV awareness for parole officers. • Make all trainings culturally competent. • Assist in creating a centralized data collection system. • Provide training on how to integrate services. 3. Support Local Efforts • Sustain funding for effective programs. • Establish a categorical SETS grant or a regional SFTS mini-grant for county teams. • Disseminate best practices. • Provide more violence prevention education in jails. • Increase training requirements for child care providers. 17 ................ ........ Safe From The Start Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums 4. Increase Public Awareness Conduct a statewide media campaign about impact of violence on kids. • Provide information in multiple languages. 5. Strengthen Families • Provide economic incentives for foster parents. Provide vouchers for childcare. • Create a non-CPS family support program that provides voluntary in-home support services for parents. Provide affordable housing. Los Angeles Regional Forum - Los Angeles December 14, 2000 1. Build A Collaborative Effort— Bring All Partners to the Table • Encourage collaboration among systems and among agencies. • Require state-funded agencies to form coalitions. • See that state departments involved with children and families work and plan together in coordination with comparable departments at the county level. • Replace competitive grants with a funding regime that fosters collaboration, not competition. Encourage cross training of law enforcement, child welfare and mental health. • Schools/school districts should share information with other local service systems. • Children and Family Services should share information with law enforcement and education. 2. BuildLocal Capacity—Training,Technical Assistance and Data • Disseminate model programs to the field. • Help track effective strategies. Provide biannual training on best practices. • Update the SFTS directories on an ongoing basis. Direct counties to fund agencies' resource directories. • Provide guidance on confidentiality rules. 0 Track all child abuse reports. o Track rates of domestic violence; not just DV arrests. 3. Support Local Efforts 0 Continue funding for successful programs. Do not cut funding according to arbitrary time limits. 0 Channel funding to cities, community-based organizations and schools, rather than to counties. o Create an entertainment tax and cigarette tax for violence prevention. • Provide funding for staff development. • Ensure that school facilities are large enough to house an infrastructure of support services at each school,such as counseling, mentoring, after-school programs,conflict resolution, regular health services, classes and school nurses. 0 Encourage or require a Key Mental Health Officer position in Standardized 18 Safe From The Start,Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Emergency Management System (SEMS) organization structure(model used by LA County Office of Education). • Conduct monthly home visits to foster homes. • Coordinate and standardize violence prevention curriculum. • Support more research; • State agencies should examine Federal Correctional institution (FCI).` • Use the same application for all state grant programs.` • Ensure that grant reviewers have expertise in appropriate subject areas. 4. Increase Public Awareness Conduct a statewide public awareness campaign. 5. Strengthen Families • Fund mandatory parent education that includes home visits and occasional parental observation. 19 Safe From The Start=Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Appendix B ianY Thanks To The Local Co4Sponse�rss Of ie Safe From The Start Regional Foes SOUTH CENTRAL VALLEY Children and Family Commissions of Fresno, Kinds, Madera, Mariposa, Tulare, and Tuolumne Counties Sheriff's Departments of Fresno and Mariposa Counties A Woman's Place Child Abuse Prevention Councils of Fresno and Madera Comprehensive Youth Services Exceptional Parents Unlimited Family Services of Tulare County Fresno County Human Services System, "Count to Ten" Fresno County Office of Education Fresno Domestic Violence Roundtable Fresno Interagency Council on Children Fresno Police Department Genesis, Inc. Human Services Coalition of Fresno County Kern County Network for Children Kings Community Action Organization Mar}aree Mason Center Mexican-American PoliticalAssociation Mountain Crisis Services Tulare Youth Coalition Valley Children's Hospital; YES Partnership of Tuolumne County NORTHERN Children and Families Commissions of Shasta, Humboldt and Siskiyou Counties District'Attorney's Offices of Shasta, Siskiyou, Del Norte and Trinity Counties Humboldt Women for Shelter Lassen Family Services Modoc Crisis Center Public Health 'Departments of Butte and Shasta Counties Rural Human Services Shasta County Domestic Violence Roundtable Shasta County Child Policy Council Shasta County Health improvement Partnership Shasta County Women's Refuge Sheriff's Departments of Shasta, Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties Tehama County Office of Education Tehama Health Partnership Siskiyou Domestic Violence & Crisis Center Youth Violence Prevention Council of Shasta County The Yurok Tribe 20 Safe From The Start,Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums NORTH CENTRAL VALLEY Childrenand Families Commissions'of Sacramento, San Joaquin, Sierra, Stanislaus, Sutter and Yolo Counties District Attorney's Offices of Nevada, Sacramento and San Joaquin Counties Sheriff's Departments of Alpine, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter and Yuba Counties Child Advocates of Nevada County Children's Policy Council of Butte County County Offices of Education, Butte and Sacramento Counties El Dorado Women's Center Yolo Connections Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commissions of Placer and San Joaquin Counties Nevada County Child Protective Services Operation Care (Amador County) Police Departments of Sacramento and Turlock Public Health Departments of Butte and Yolo Counties Sutter Lakeside Community Services United Way Anti-Violence Collaborative of Sacramento Yolo County Public Defender's Office CENTRAL COAST' Children and Family Commission of San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties District's Attorney's Offices of San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Sheriff's Departments of Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties Children Services Network, San Luis Obispo Kid's Network of Santa Barbara County Santa Barbara County Family Violence Prevention Coalition Santa Barbara County Probation Department Santa Maria Police Department Ventura County Family Violence Prevention Coalition Ventura County Sheriff's Department INLAND EMPIRE/ORANGE COUNTY Children and Families Commissions of Inyo, Mono, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties District Attorney's Offices of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties Police Departments of Irvine, orange, and Riverside Riverside Unified School District San Bernardino Unified School District Sheriff's Departments of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties Children's Network of San Bernardino County Riverside County Department of Mental Health San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools West End Family Counseling Services 21 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums SOUTHERN Children and Families Commissions of Imperial and San Diego Counties District Attorney's Office of San Diego County Sheriffs Department of San Diego County ANGELS Foster Family Agency The Children's Initiative of San Diego County Eureka San Diego Health & Human Services Agency of San Diego County Imperial County Office of Education San Diego County Office of Education San Diego Children's Hospital-Center for Child Protection BAY AREA Children & Families Commissions of Alameda, Contra Costa, Napa, San Francisco and Sonoma Counties District Attorney's Offices of Alameda, Marin, Mendocino and Sonoma Counties Sheriffs Departments of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Mendocino, San Francisco, Sonoma and Solano Counties Alameda County Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Department Asian Women's Health Organization Bay View!Hunter's Point Foundation Children's Network of Solano County MOVE (Men Overcoming Violence Pacific Center for Violence Prevention Safe Passages San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and Their Families West Oakland Violence Prevention Project SOUTH BAY Children and Families Commissions of Monterey, San Benito, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties District Attorney's Offices of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Clara Counties Sheriffs Department of Sari Benita County Alum Rock School District Child Advocates Common Language for Conflict Resolution Community Solutions Criminal Justice Council of Santa Cruz County Family Services Mid-Peninsula Pajaro Valley Prevention & Student Assistance, Inc. San Benito County Office of Education San Benito County Substance Abuse San Mateo County Office of Education Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors Santa Clara County Department of Corrections Santa Clara County Office of Education Santa Clara County Public Defender's Office Santa Clara County Public Health Department Women's Crisis Center 22 Safe from The Start•Policy.Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums LOS ANGELES COUNTY Children & Families Commission of Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department of Los Angeles County City Commission for Children, Youth and Their Families Evan Leigh Foster Foundation Handgun Control Los Angeles County Children's Planning Council Interagency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect Los Angeles County Office of Education Los Angeles County Probation Department Los Angeles Unified School District Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles (VPC) 23 ............. ........... Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Appendix C Information Resources The California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center has created this initial directory of information resources to assist organizations and individuals in their efforts to respond to the effects of exposure to violence on children. You may also check the Website at www.safefromthestart.org for additional resources. Safe From The Start Partners Office of the Attorney General California Department of Education Crime and Violence Prevention Center 721 Capitol Mail(zip code 95814) 13001 Street, 11 th Floor PO Box 944272 Sacramento,CA 95814 Sacramento,CA 94244-2720 (916)324-7863 (916)657-2451 (916)327 (916)657 -2384—FAX -3000—FAX www.caag.state.ca.us/cvpc www.ede.ca.gov California Children and Families Commission California Department of Health Services 501 J Street,Suite 530 Domestic Violence Section Sacramento,CA 95814 714 P Street,Room 540(zip code 95814) (916)323-0056 PO Box 942732 (9 6)323-0069—FAX Sacramento,CA 94234 www,ccfc.ca.gov (916)657-4643 (916)'653-2125—FAX California Health and Human Services Agency www.safenetwork.net 1600 Ninth Street,Suite 460 Sacramento,CA 95814 California Department of Health Services (916)654-3454 Epidemiology&Prevention for Injury Control (916)654-3343—FAX (EPIC)Branch www.chhs.ca.gov 611 North Seventh Street PO Box 942732 California Department of Social Services Sacramento,CA 94234-7320 Office of Child Abuse Prevention (916)323-3642 744'P Street,MS 19-82 (916)323-3682—FAX Sacramento,CA 95814 www.dhs.ca.gov/epic (916)445-2771 (916)323-8103—FAX California Department of Mental Health 1600 Ninth Street,Rm. 151 CCS Partnership(Cities,Counties,Schools) Sacramento,CA 95814 1100 K Street,Suite 201 (916)654-2309 Sacramento,CA 95814 (916)654-3198—FAX (916)323-6011 wwwdmh.cahwnet.gov www.ccspartnership.org California Youth Authority 4241 Williamsbourgh Drive,Suite 214 STATE AGENCIES Sacramento,CA 95823 (916)262-1534 California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs (916)262-1181—FAX 1700 K Street www.eya.ca.gov Sacramento,CA 95814 (916)445-0834 (916)323-5873—FAX www.adp.ca.gov 24 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Office of Criminal Justice Planning U.S.Department of Health and Human Services 1130 K Street,Suite 300 Family and Youth Services Sacramento,CA 95814 330 C Street,S.W.,Room 2038 (916)3249100 Washington D.C.20201' (916)327-8711—FAX (202)205-8102 www.ocjp.ca.gov (202)260-9333—FAX www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/fysb FEDERAL AGENCIES U.S.Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime' U.S.Department of Justice 810 Seventh Street N.W. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Washington,D.C.20531 Prevention (800)627-6872 810 Seventh Street,NW www.ojp.usdoj.govlove Washington D.C.20531 (202)307-5911 United States Surgeon General (202)307-2093--FAX Office of Public Health&Science www.oBdp.ncjrs.org 200 Independence Avenue,S.W. National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Washington,DC 20201www:osophs,dhhs.gov Drug Information - 11426-28 Rockville Pike(zip code 20852) P.O.Bole,MD 20847-2345 45 Rockville,MD TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (800)729-6686 PROVIDERS AND OTHER (301)468-7394--FAX INTERESTED ORGANIZATIONS www.health.org Yale Child Study Center(official technical National Institute of Justice assistance provider to the US Department of Office of Communication and Research Utilization Justice Safe from the Start Project) 810 Seventh Street,NW Child Development Community Policing Program Washington,D.C. 20531 47 College Street,Suite 212 (202)307-2942 New Haven,CT 06510 www,ojp,usdoj.gov/nij (203)785-7047 http://info.med.yale.edu/chidstdy/CDCP Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Action Alliance for Children Division of Community Prevention and Training 1 Action Martin Luther King e Way 5600 Fishers Lane,Rockwall II,9th Floor Oakland,CA 94612-1217 Rockville,MD 20857 (301)443-0365 (510)444-7136 (301)443-5447-FAX (510)444-7138--FAX www.samhsa.gov www.4children.org Centers for Disease Control California Alliance Against Domestic Violence National Center for Injury Prevention and Control 926 J Street,Suite 1000 Surgeon General's Report on Youth Violence Sacramento,CA 95814 (800)789-2647 (916)444-7163 www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm (916)444-7165—FAX www.caadv.org U.S.Bureau of Justice Assistance Clearinghouse PO Box 6040 California Association of Alcohol and Drug Rockville,MID 20849-6000 Program Executives(CAADPE) (800)688-4252 112711th Street,Suite 208 (301)519-5212—FAX Sacramento,CA 95814 www.ncjrs.org (916)329-7409 (916)442-4616—FAX wwwcaadpe-aware:org 25 Safe From The Start•Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums California Coalition Against Sexual Assault California ProfessionalSociety on the Abuse of 1215 K Street,Suite 1100 Children Sacramento,CA 95814 PO Box 55427 (916)446-2520 Sherman Gaits,CA 91413 (916)446-8166—FAX (818)788-1605 www.calcasa.org (818)591-1879-FAX California Crime Prevention Officers Association California School Boards Association P.O.Box 329 3100 Beacon Blvd. Los Angeles,CA 90053 West Sacramento,CA 95691 (213)485-3134 (916)371.4691 (916)'`371-34Q7—FAX: California District Attorneys Association www.osba.org 731 K Street,Third Floor Sacramento,CA 95814 California State Association of Counties (916)443-2017 1100`K Street,Suite 101 (916)443-0540—FAX Sacramento,CA 95814 www.edaa.org (916)327-7500(916)321-5047-FAX www.csac.counties.org California Judges Association 301 Howard Street,Suite 1040' California State Sheriff's Association San Francisco,CA 54105 1450'Halyard Drive (415)495-1999 West Sacramento,CA 95691 (916)',375-8000 California Medical Training Center (916)375-8017—FAX UC Davis/Department of Pediatrics: wwwcalsheriff.org 3300 Stockton Boulevard Sacramento,CA 95820 Center for Child Protection (916)734-3834 Children's Hospital of San Diego (916)734-4150-FAX 3020'Children's Way wieb.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu(medtmg San Diego,CA 92123-4282 (858)974-8017 California Mental.Health Directors Association (858)974-8018--FAX 2030 J Street www,chsd.org Sacramento,CA 95814 (916)556-3477 Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (916)446-4519-FAX University of Colorado at Boulder wwww.cmhda.org Campus Box 439 Boulder,CO 80309-0439 California Peace Officers Association Tel: (303)492-8465 1455 Response Road,Suite 190 Fax: (303)443-3297 Sacramento,CA 95815 www,colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints (916)263-0541 (916)263-6090-FAX Child Trauma Academy www.cpoa.org Baylor College of Medicine,Department of Psychology California Police Chiefs Association One Baylor Plaza 1455 Response Road,Suite 190 Houston,TX 77030 Sacramento,CA 95615 (713)770-3750 (916}923-1$25 www.childtrauma,org; www.cpcachiefs.org Children Now 1212 Broadway,Suite 530 Oakland,CA 94612 (510)763-2444 www,childrennow.org 26 z _ ; tet flaw.}e nWIL 9 .newL. 014 .. Safe From The Start+Policy Recommendations from the Statewide Regional Forums Centra Costa County Sheriff's Department League of Women Voters of California Attn:Deborah Knodell 926 J Street,Suite 515 Domestic Violence Coordinator Sacramento,CA 95814 1980 Muir Road,Martinez,94553 (916)442-7215 (925) 313-2613 (916)442-7362—FAX DKNod@so.co.contra-costa.ca.us email:Iwvc@jps,net www.ca.lwv.org County Alcohol and Drug Program Administrators Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Association of California(CADPAAC) Women(LACAAW) 1029 J Street,Suite 340 6043 Hollywood Blvd.,Suite 200 Sacramento,CA 95814 Los Angeles,CA 90028 (916)441-1850 (213)462-1281 (916)441-6178—FAX www,wagerman.com National Crime Prevention Council 1000 Connecticut Avenue,N County Welfare Directors Association of 1311 Floor California Washington,D.C. 20036 925 L Street,Suite 1405 (202)466.6272 Sacramento,CA 95814 (202)296-1356—FAX (916)443-1749 www.ncpc.org (916)443-3202—FAX National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Family Violence and Sexual Assault Institute Judges (FVSAI) Family Violence Department–Resource Center 5160 Cornerstone Court Fast PO Box 8070 San Diego,CA 92121 Reno,NV 89507 (858)623-2777 x 406 (800)527-3223 (858)646-0761—FAX www.nc#cj.unr.edu www.fvsai.org National Center for Victims of Crime Fight Crime:Invest in Kids California 2111 Wilson Blvd.,Suite 300 3635 Majestic Avenue Arlington,VA 22201 Oakland,CA 94605 (703)276-2880 (510)632.3432 www.nevc.org www.fightcrime.org Physicians for a Violence4ree Society I Am Your Child Foundation 1001 Portrero Avenue,Building One,Room 300 335 North Maple Drive,Suite 135 San Francisca,CA 94110 Beverly Hills,CA 90210 (415)821-8209 (310)285-2385 (415)282-2563—FAX (310)205-2760--FAX www.pvs,org www.iamyourchld.org Santa Barbara Police Department Join Together Attn: Cheryl Garcia 441 Stuart Street Crime Analysis Unit Boston,MA 02116 215 Bast Figueroa Street (617)437-1500 Santa Barbara,CA 93101 (617)437.9394--FAX (805)897=3706 www.jointogether.org Tulare County Sheriffs Department League of California Cities Captain David Williams 1400 K Street,Fourth Floor County Civic Center Sacramento,CA 95814 Visalia,CA 93291 (916)658-8200 (559)733-6229 ext 43 (916)658-8240--FAX (559)730-2603–FAX www.cacifies.org Dwilliams@co..tulare.ca.us 27 CVPC is very interested in adding useful resources to this fist. if your organization or agency wound like to be included, or if you know of organizations that should be added, please complete this Resource hist form. Organization/Agency; Contact Person: Address: Phone. Fax: E-mail Address: Website: Please return form to: California Attorney General's Office Crime and Violence Prevention Center Safe from the Start Project 1300 i Street, Suite 1150 Sacramento, CA 95814 Fax: (916) 327-2384 denise.garland@doj.ca.gov