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David Mandel & Associates LLC

David Mandel and Associates has been hired to provide training and technical assistance to Florida DCF in 3 counties as part of their foster care design efforts. The foster care redesign plan, which is intended to reduce the number of children in care, includes a number of systems changes such as providing child protection investigators with additional supports around substance abuse and domestic violence. David Mandel & Associate LLC will be providing training and technical assistance needed to create domestic violence specialists in each investigation unit. These specialists will handle domestic violence cases and act as resources for their colleagues in their units. Training and technical assistance will also be provided to the community providers who work with families on an on-going basis. To view video, Click here...

Domestic Violence Consultation Initiative Report

CT's child welfare agency has placed full-time domestic violence consultants in its area offices. Read first report...

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Tools to Improve Child Protection Agencies' Responses to Batterers

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Tools to Improve Child Protection Agencies' Responses to Batterers

The Non-Violence Alliance has dedicated itself to helping child protection professionals improve the effectiveness of their interventions with batterers. Intervening with batterers can help protect children and reduce the unnecessary revictimization of the non-offending parent. As part of its Children and Batterer Accountability Initiative developed and implemented for Connecticut's Department of Children and Families, NoVA has created tools to help determine a child protection agency practices as they relate to batterers.

The Case Review Form (4 pages) can be used to help an agency develop a baseline for its practices regarding batterers and then measure progress as it makes changes. It captures data, essential for making policy decisions, that is often not available through information technology systems.

The Worker and Supervisor Survey (4 pages) can help measure the attitudes of child protection staff towards batterers. Similar to the Case Review Form, it can be used to both gather baseline data and measure changes over time.