Re: CPS/Battered Women's Shelters

[carolyn hartley <carolyn-hartley@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Community Partnership for Safe Families in Cedar Rapids Iowa (funded by
the Clark Foundation) has a joint CPC/domestic violence project.  The
project involves housing a domestic violence advocate in the CPC office.
When service workers identify DV in a family, the case is referred to the
advocate for outreach and possible services.  CPC workers in the Cedar
Rapids area have also gone through domestic violence training, and service
workers staff cases involving both domestic violence and child maltreatment
with a domestic violence expert (Susan Schechter) on a monthly basis.  If
you would like more information, I would be happy to put you in contact
with folks from the Partnership.

Carolyn Copps Hartley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
School of Social Work

At 04:18 PM 9/1/98 PDT, you wrote:
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>Hello all.  I am a CPS worker specializing in domestic violence issues.
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>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.
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>Thanks,
>
>Brian Ingram, MSSW
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