The Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) is a therapeutic, 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:
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.
Featured Work
- Carmen Rosa Norona, LCSW presented at Zero to Three's Annual Conference in December 2016:
- En espanol- En busca de significado: El papel de la supervision reflexiva y la experiencia del trabajador hispanohablante
- Deepening Self-Awareness to Create Organizational Change and promote Equity: using the Diversity-Informed Tenets
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.
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 |
Tips for Parents and Other 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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