The Greenbook, as it came to be known, set forth a framework, principles, and more than sixty specific recommendations for the three primary systems that become involved when domestic violence and child maltreatment intersect: child welfare, domestic violence advocacy and services, and dependency courts. The Greenbook’s guiding framework and principles call for collaboration between community institutions to responses to domestic violence and child maltreatment that “establish offer meaningful help to families.” Among the guiding principles are: Providing for the safety, and stability for children and families Keeping children in the care of their non-offending parent(s) whenever possible, in large part by making adult victims safe and stopping batterers’ assaults Creating a community service system with many points of entry and fair and capable service to people of diverse backgrounds Designing a differential response that does not require opening a child protection investigation or finding of maltreatment to access help Discussion questions: Review the principles. To what extent do these principles currently guide our work as CPS caseworkers? As advocates? How do we know if what we’re actually doing reflects these principles? What are the barriers to putting these principles into practice? Information the Greenbook initiative, the experiences of the demonstration sites, and related tools and resources can be found at: http://www.thegreenbook.info/ or through the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody at www.rcdvcpc.org. Greenbook,” Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child “The by Susan Schechter and Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice, Jeffrey L. Edelson (principal authors), is at: . Also, see Greenbook Leigh Bringing the to Life: A Resource Guide for Communities, Goodmark and Ann Rosewater, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, May 2008. Access at or through the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody: www.rcdvcpc.org.
The Greenbook, as it came to be known, set forth a framework, principles, and more than sixty specific recommendations for the three primary systems that become involved when domestic violence and child maltreatment intersect: child welfare, domestic violence advocacy and services, and dependency courts. The Greenbook’s guiding framework and principles call for collaboration between community institutions to “establish responses to domestic violence and child maltreatment that offer meaningful help to families.” Among the guiding principles are: Providing for the safety, and stability for children and families Keeping children in the care of their non-offending parent(s) whenever possible, in large part by making adult victims safe and stopping batterers’ assaults Creating a community service system with many points of entry and fair and capable service to people of diverse backgrounds Designing a differential response that does not require opening a child protection investigation or finding of maltreatment to access help Discussion questions: Review the principles. To what extent do these principles currently guide our work as CPS caseworkers? As advocates? How do we know if what we’re actually doing reflects these principles? What are the barriers to putting these principles into practice? Information the Greenbook initiative, the experiences of the demonstration sites, and related tools and resources can be found at: http://www.thegreenbook.info/ or through the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody at www.rcdvcpc.org. “The Greenbook,” Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice, by Susan Schechter and Jeffrey L. Edelson (principal authors), is at: . Also, see Bringing the Greenbook to Life: A Resource Guide for Communities, Leigh Goodmark and Ann Rosewater, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, May 2008. Access at or through the Resource Center on Domestic Violence: Child Protection and Custody: www.rcdvcpc.org.
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