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Clinical Intervention with Young Children Affected by Domestic Violence and Other Tauma

Introduction to Child Parent Psychotherapy: Clinical Intervention with Young Children Affected by Trauma and Domestic Violence

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, multi-lingual staff of social workers, psychologists, early childhood specialists, and 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.

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Safe and Bright Futures for Children - Final Report The Safe and Bright Futures Initiative was launched by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in 2003 to encourage communities to plan, develop, implement, and sustain a coordinated system of prevention, intervention, treatment, and follow-through services for children who have witnessed or been exposed to domestic violence.1 In 2004, The Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center and the Children�s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County received a grant from the U.S. DHHS to create the Suffolk County Safe and Bright Futures for Children Project (this point forward �The SBF Project�), a two-year effort to design and implement a community needs assessment targeting the availability and delivery of services to children and adolescents exposed to domestic violence (CEDV).

Safe and Bright Futures for Children - Executive Summary

This is the Executive Summary of the report above.

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. >>more

Purchase these uplifting A World Without Violence Note cards and support the Child Witness to Violence Project. >>more

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

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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