Re: CPS/Battered Women's Shelters

["Randall Webber" <rwebber@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bobby-You might check in with someone at the federal Administration for
Children, Youth and Families.  With Illinois State University, we are
finishing up the first year of a three-year ACYF training grant which
focuses on training child welfare professionals to deal with cases that
involve child welfare and 1)  domestic violence;  2)  substance abuse;  3) 
mental illness.  Perhaps ACYF can give you the names of other grantees who
are further along in their work, and who have established or helped to
establish links between CPS and domestic violence programs.  It is like
pulling teeth to get a phone number for ACYF, but their web site is at
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/acyf/.

-Randy Webber

J. Randall Webber, M.P.H. <rwebber@chestnut.org>
Director of Training and Publications
Lighthouse Institute
Chestnut Health Systems
720 W. Chestnut St
Bloomington, IL  67101
309/827-6026    309/829-4661 (fax)
http://www.chestnut.org

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> From: INGRAM, BOBBY B. <INGRAMBB@fwor1286b.dlls.tdprs.state.tx.us>
> To: Child Maltreatment Researchers  
<CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu>
> Subject: CPS/Battered Women's Shelters
> Date: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 6:18 PM
> 
> 
> Hello all.  I am a CPS worker specializing in domestic violence issues.
> 
> I would like to know if anyone out would have any research or leads on 
> instances where CPS has been or is coordinating with Battered Women's 
> Shelters where they both "share" a family.  I would also like to know if 
> anyone has ever heard of a specialized "unit" in CPS that only deals with

> domestic violence cases.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Ingram, MSSW