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Title: DCFS Board Charge to the Utah Child Abuse Prevention Task Force


1
DCFS Board Charge to the Utah Child Abuse
Prevention Task Force
  • David L. Corwin, MD
  • Chair, Task Force Steering Committee
  • Member, DCFS Board
  • Medical Director, Primary Childrens Center for
    Safe and Healthy Families
  • Professor and Chief, Child Protection and Family
    Health Division
  • Pediatrics - University of Utah School of
    Medicine

2
Task Force Learning Objectives
  • Review child abuse and neglect in Utah
  • Review effects of child abuse and neglect
  • juvenile delinquency
  • adult criminality
  • health and mental health problems
  • other adverse outcomes
  • Review effective child abuse prevention methods
    and programs

3
Task Force Learning Objectives
  • Review most successful Childrens Trust Funds
  • Review Utahs primary, secondary and tertiary
    child abuse prevention programs
  • Review current funding for child abuse prevention
    programs

4
Task Force Recommendations
  • Most promising approaches for improving child
    abuse prevention in Utah
  • Improved integration and coordination of
    prevention programs
  • Attention to cultural issues and competence
  • Improve Utahs Childrens Trust Fund to better
    assist child abuse prevention in Utah

5
The Utah Child Abuse Prevention Task Force
Recommendations
  • January 6, 2005

6
Vision
  • We envision that throughout Utah
  • All children are protected from preventable
    harmful experiences that result from child abuse
    or neglect.
  • All parents, especially new parents, are informed
    on how to provide safe and healthy formative
    years for their children.
  • All communities are responding with early
    supportive services for successful parenting and
    healthy childhood development.
  • Increased means are available to provide healthy
    environments for children from resources once
    spent on the results of child abuse and neglect.
  • For all children, it is great to be a child!

7
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Principles
  • Preventing child abuse strengthens families
  • All families want to raise safe, healthy,
    successful children.
  • Helping parents succeed prevents child abuse.
  • Prevention must be universal and voluntary.
  • Prevention efforts must be effective and
  • adapted to diverse cultural needs of Utah.

8
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Principles
  • Prevention efforts must be collaborative all
    community agencies and partners must be involved
    in planning and implementation.
  • Prevention efforts must be public/private
    partnerships.

9
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child abuse is a major public health problem.
  • 7,829 case/ 10,932 child/adolescent victims in
    2003
  • 33.8 increase in cases from 2000 to 2003
  • In 2002, 14.2 cases per 1,000 children
  • (12.3 nationally)

10
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child Abuse is a major public health problem.
  • Acute injury
  • Chronic illness
  • Disability
  • Death

11
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child abuse is a major moral issue. Child abuse
    is wrong. Prevention is right.
  • Children are precious, vulnerable and dependent
    on adults. They deserve our best.
  • Our society is not safe until every child is
    safe.
  • The safety and well being of children is
    everyones moral responsibility.

12
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child abuse is a major social issue.
  • Violence and criminality
  • Social dysfunction
  • Relationship problems
  • Addiction
  • Lost productivity
  • Pain and suffering
  • Intergenerational cycle of abuse

13
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child abuse is very expensive. We pay for its
    harms with our tax dollars, insurance premiums,
    lost productivity and reduced resources for other
    important services like education.
  • 94 billion per year
  • Preventing half of its child abuse cases could
    save Utah hundreds of millions of dollars that
    could help support education, health care and
    transportation

14
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Child abuse is preventable.
  • Effective programs include
  • Early childhood home visiting
  • Parent education, family resource centers, the
    Nurturing Program
  • Parenting older children and adolescents, e.g.
  • Strengthening Families

15
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Findings
  • Utah has many promising prevention programs
  • Unfortunately, they have insufficient resources
    to reach enough families to significantly reduce
    child abuse in Utah.
  • Utah needs enhanced coordination across funding
    streams and disciplines to reduce child abuse as
    much as possible.

16
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Call To Action
  • Citizens of Utah support all Utah families in
    raising safe, healthy and successful children.
  • Agencies, institutions and businesses of Utah are
    called upon to develop, implement and sustain
    flexible approaches for helping parents and
    families succeed.
  • Proven models
  • Flexible to accommodate cultural, geographic and
    socio-economic diversity of Utah

17
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Call To Action
  • The Utah Legislature and Governor Huntsman are
    called upon to facilitate increased funding of
    child abuse prevention from public, foundation,
    corporate and private sources by restructuring
    the Utah Childrens Trust Fund to maximize it
    flexibility and productivity.

18
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Call To Action
  • Professionals and institutions that work with
    children and families including schools, are
    called upon to increase public and policy makers
    awareness of the harms and costs of child abuse
    as well as the benefits of preventing abuse.

19
The Utah Healthy Families-Safe Kids Action Plan
  • Call To Action
  • You are called upon to promote safe and healthy
    families, institutions and communities for all
    people of Utah.
  • Inform yourself about child abuse and its
    prevention. Invite speakers from the Child Abuse
    Prevention Speakers Bureau to talk with your
    church, civic or neighborhood organization.
  • Get to know and support the parents and families
    in your neighborhood. Support community programs
    and other efforts to help parents and families
    succeed.

20
We are all called upon to make a better, brighter
future for all children in Utah!
  • Our Children Utahs Future
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