The Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of domestic and community violence and other trauma-related events.
CWVP is staffed by a multi-cultural staff of social workers, psychologists, early childhood specialists, a consulting pediatrician and consulting attorney. It is run under the auspices of the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center.
Goals of the project include:
- To identify young children who witness acts of significant violence.
- To help young children heal from the trauma of witnessing violence by providing developmentally appropriate counseling for them and for their families.
- To provide consultation and training to the network of caregivers in the lives of young children in order that they may more effectively identify and respond to children who are exposed to violence.
The Child Witness to Violence Project and two of CWVP's clinical staff, Carmen Rosa Noroña, MS Ed, and Marta Casas, MA, were featured in the The National Child Traumatic Stress Spring 2012 newsletter, IMPACT:Special Edition on Culture and Trauma.
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Child Witness to Violence Project: Featured Publications
Children Who See Too Much
This valuable book by Betsy McAlister Groves alerts parents and clinicians to the pain which children experience after witnessing violence. >>more
Safe Start Center Series on Children Exposed to Violence
In this issue brief, Betsy McAlister Groves and Marilyn Augustyn discuss the role pediatric care practitioners play in screening children for health and social risks, especially exposure to violence.
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Tips for Parents and Caregivers This guide provides parents and caregivers with information about how to support children in a violent world. To download, click here.
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Child Witness to Violence Project Newsletter 2011
To download, click here.
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Hope and Healing is a guide for early childhood professionals who care for children in a variety of early care and education settings. The authors define trauma and help readers recognize its effects on young children. They also offer tips, resources, and proven intervention strategies for working with traumatized children and their families and for managing stress.
The Child Witness to Violence Project is a distributor of the Safe Havens Training Curriculum developed by Family Communications, Inc. producers of Mister Roger’s Neighborhood. >>order
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