Contemporary and Innovative Practices in Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Models

Wendy Walsh, James Herbert, Danielle Nadeau, Pearl Rimer, Annick St-Amand

Description

Child Advocacy Centres (CACs), also known as Child & Youth Advocacy Centres (CYACs), Children’s Houses, and Barnahus, are a child-focused trauma-informed approach to improving the multidisciplinary response to abuse and violence in the lives of children and youth. Contemporary and Innovative Practices in Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Models brings an international perspective to contemporary and innovative CAC practices around the world. It provides a range of perspectives offering valuable insights, suggestions, and advice to stimulate ideas for establishing, growing and modifying a CAC model and multi-agency collaboration in order to build capacity to respond to the incredibly diverse types of cases, children, youth and families that come through a CAC’s doors.
As authors explore diverse sociolegal, demographic and cultural contexts within different service environments, they draw attention to successes but are also honest about challenges, barriers, and potential pitfalls.

Sujets

• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique

Informations

• Publié par: Presses de l'Université du Québec
• Date de parution: 19 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9782760555402
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents Cover Imprint Title page Copyright Acknowledgements List of figures List of tables List of abbreviations and acronyms Introduction 1. Origin and purpose of the Child Advocacy Centre approach 2. Overview of sections References Part 1. Overall state of play Chapter 1: Children’s Advocacy Centres and child forensic interview protocols 1. A brief introduction and history 2. Children’s Advocacy Centres in four countries 2.1 Criminal legal systems 2.2 Children’s Advocacy Centres in the United States 2.3 Iceland’s Barnahus 2.4 Norway’s Barnehus 2.5 Brazil’s integrated care centres and special testimony rooms 2.6 Commentary 3. Child witness research and interview protocols 3.1 Early research 3.2 Child forensic interview protocols 3.3 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) protocol 3.4 National Children’s Advocacy Center protocol 3.5 Interview protocols are evolving: A toolbox approach 4. Examples of countries’ protocol approaches 4.1 United States protocol 4.2 Iceland’s protocol 4.3 Norway’s protocol 4.4 Brazil’s protocol 5. Evaluating Children’s Advocacy Centres 5.1 United States evaluation 5.2 Iceland evaluation 5.3 Norway evaluation 5.4 Brazil evaluation 6. Future questions and research directions References Chapter 2: The forensic medical evaluation and the role of the medical practitioner in a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre A Canadian perspective 1. Key components of the medical evaluation 1.1 Physical abuse 1.2 Sexual abuse 2. Training, ongoing, and continuing education, and peer review 3. Addressing equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility 4. Barriers to delivering care: Telehealth, remote, urban versus rural 5. Supporting Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) 6. Conclusion References Chapter 3: Providing support to child witnesses inside a Child Advocacy Centre setting 1. Overview of challenges for child witnesses 2. Overview of the National Children’s Advocacy Center 3. Recommendations for providing support throughout the interview process 3.1 Scheduling of the interviews 3.2 Considerations around whether to include the facility dog 3.3 Selection of the investigative interviewer 3.4 Arrival of the child and caregiver to the Child Advocacy Centre 3.5 The transition to the interview room 3.6 The interview room environment 3.7 Being fully present to the child in the interview room 3.8 Check-in with the child following the interview 4. Closing thoughts References Chapter 4: From dissenting to conforming hybridity—Experiences from a justice sector-affiliated Barnahus model 1. Background and aims 2. The Norwegian case: A justice sector-affiliated Barnahus model 3. Hybridity as an opportunity and challenge 4. Empirical data 5. Analysis 5.1 Justice sector affiliation through path dependence 5.2 The implementation phase: A dissenting hybrid 5.3 The consolidating phase: Toward a conforming hybrid 6. Conclusion Acknowledgements References Chapter 5: Barnahus in Ireland : Problematizing power, culture and collaboration 1. Problematizing power, culture and collaboration 2. Rights and voice 3. Barnahus in Ireland 3.1 Introducing Barnahus to Ireland 3.2 The Barnahus process 3.2.1 Referral phase 3.2.2 Investigation phase 3.2.3 Intervention phase 4. Power and culture: Hearing the voice of the child 5. Conclusions : “Broken and repaired” References Part 2. Providing services for specific cases and social realities Chapter 6: Access, inclusion, equity : Creating a strategy for a culturally responsive Child and Youth Advocacy Centre through inquiry and action 1. The Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Cultural Responsiveness Audit 1.1 What is an audit ? 1.2 The Audit framework 1.3 Areas of inquiry 2. Key audit findings 3. Implementation journey 3.1 Actions implemented to date 3.1.1 Organizational values and foundational documents 3.1.2 Internal culture 3.1.3 Service design and delivery 3.1.4 Staff readiness, skills, and training 3.1.5 Data gathering 4. Results-based accountability and quality improvement 4.1 Post-audit evaluation 4.2 Key learnings 4.2.1 Identify internal champions to guide the work 4.2.2 Commit to implementation before commencing assessment 4.2.3 Encourage broad participation 4.2.4 Operationalize broad recommendations into actionable tasks, and assign them 4.2.5 Work in partnership 5. Conclusion References Appendix A Appendix B Chapter 7: “Expanding” the practice of extended forensic interviews : Addressing controversial issues with field professionals in program development 1. Background 2. Challenges associated with Extended Forensic Interviews in the field 3. Specific practical challenges for EFI program design at the SIAM 4. Development and overview of the EDIE program 5. Implementation of the EDIE program 6. Conclusion References Chapter 8: Working with cases of sibling sexual abuse in the ultra-Orthodox community : The Jerusalem Child Advocacy Center model 1. Sibling sexual abuse: Characteristics and challenges 2. Unique aspects of the Jerusalem Child Advocacy Center 3. Mandatory reporting of sibling sexual abuse in Israel 4. The exemption committee model and its effect on CAC interventions in cases of SSA 5. The ultra-Orthodox community in Israel 6. JCAC interventions with cases of SSA in the ultra-Orthodox community: Main themes from personal experience 6.1 Before entering: The recruitment of ultra-Orthodox families to the JCAC after CSA disclosure 6.2 During the intervention: Negotiating with the family’s cultural and religious needs at the JCAC 6.3 Parallel to the JCAC intervention: Working with ultra-Orthodox leaders in the community 7. Summary References Chapter 9: Reaching for the SKY : Lessons from the Safe Kids & Youth Coordinated Response in adapting a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre model for a rural region 1. What is Safe Kids & Youth ? 1.1 Structure 1.2 Process 1.3 Safe Kids & Youth summary 2. Barriers for our rural and remote region 3. Feasibility study and program model development 4. Implementation 5. Maintenance 6. Culturally competent services 7. Improvements 8. Conclusion References Part 3. Prevention and therapeutic services in the context of Child Advocacy Centre models Chapter 10: Prevention education programs in Child Advocacy Centres : An examination of a program model and program development in Canada 1. Overview of Boost Child & Youth Advocacy Centre prevention education programs 1.1 Prevention education: Classroom programs 1.1.1 Prevention Education Program Talk themes 1.1.2 Prevention Education Program Talk evaluations 1.2 Training programs 1.2.1 Making A Difference 1.2.2 Keeping Kids Safe 1.2.3 Online Learning Centre 1.3 Community Crisis Response 1.3.1 Community Crisis Response services 1.3.2 Community Crisis Response dissemination 2. Developing a prevention program: The Lantern/Awacic Project example 2.1 Structural and organizational aspects 2.2 Financial aspects 2.3 Project development 2.3.1 Phase 1 (2016-2017) : Learning 2.3.2 Phase 2 (2017-2018) : Creation and collaboration 2.3.3 Phase 3 (2018-2019) : Roll-out 3. Conclusion References Chapter 11: Increasing access and decreasing barriers to mental health services at Child Advocacy Centres through telehealth 1. The problem 2. The solution 3. Case example of a successful Child Advocacy Centre telehealth program 4. Framework for developing and sustaining a successful telehealth program 4.1 Develop a team 4.2 Develop a telehealth budget 4.2.1 One-time start-up costs 4.2.2 Ongoing costs 4.3 Use an evidence-based model 5. Practical considerations 5.1 Information technology and equipment 5.2 Supplies for engagement 5.3 Policies, procedures and forms 5.3.1 Telehealth guidelines and regulations 5.3.2 Informed consent for telehealth 5.3.3 Obtaining consent 5.3.4 Communication with clients 5.3.5 Equipment loaner forms, tracking, procedures 5.3.6 Emergency protocol 5.3.7 Memorandum of understanding (MOU) school protocol 5.4 Training for staff and clinical team 6. Clinical considerations 6.1 Client engagement 6.2 Confidentiality 7. Conclusion 7.1 Highlights of lessons learned 7.2 Next steps References Chapter 12: A Children’s Advocacy Centre comprehensive initiative to increase engagement with children’s mental health services 1. Providing Access Toward Hope and Healing 2. Research questions and methods 3. Sample characteristics 4. Findings on referral and engagement 4.1 What predicts referral to therapy ? 4.2 What predicts starting therapy ? 5. Discussion 6. Implications References Chapter 13: Innovative responses to problematic sexual behaviour of youth : Children’s Advocacy Centres in North America 1. Background on problematic sexual behaviours 2. Children’s Advocacy Centres and problematic sexual behaviours: A historical perspective 3. The importance of the multidisciplinary team 4. Children’s Advocacy Centre services 4.1 Identification and initial response 4.2 Forensic interview 4.3 Assessment 4.4 Intervention 4.5 Overall safety and supervision within the Children’s Advocacy Centre 5. Community and cultural considerations 5.1 Rural, urban, suburban 5.2 Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) 5.3 LGBTQ+ 5.4 Faith communities 5.5 Developmental considerations 5.6 Gender biases 6. Impact of local, state/province/ territory, and federal policy 7. Impact of technology 8. Conclusions 9. Resources References Part 4. Evaluation and Research into Child Advocacy Centre Models Chapter 14: Evaluating and monitoring the implementation of the first Child Advocacy Centre in the Quebec City region : When evaluation goes hand-in-hand with the institution’s activities 1. Background 2. First steps toward the creation of the Services intégrés en abus et maltraitance 2.1 Identification of significant gaps in the actual mechanism 2.2 Mobilization of stakeholders 3. Research and program evaluation hand-in-hand with the decisional processes 3.1 Needs assessment and feasibility study 3.2 Elaboration of a logic model 4. Implementing the SIAM: Between projected agenda and reality contingen