NCJ Number
79594
Date Published
Unknown
Length
77 pages
Annotation
This final program report summarizes the activities of a Kentucky project that united a variety of existing community agencies to form a network of services for child abuse and spouse abuse victims and the perpetrators of family violence.
Abstract
In September 1979, the Lansdowne Mental Health Center initiated a program to address intrafamily violence in Boyd, Carter, Elliot, Greenup, and Lawrence counties in Kentucky. In addition to coordinating a variety of existing community agencies to provide a service network (the police, social services bureau, several safe houses, courts and attorneys), Lansdowne also planned to increase community awareness and understanding of this problem. Lansdowne's family violence team consisted of a project director, a trainer (responsible for all training and some public education efforts), a criminal justice specialist (responsible primarily for working with the courts and law enforcement agencies and providing advocacy and education services), an outreach worker (responsible for working within the local community action agency), and a social worker (responsible for case management, advocacy, education, and counseling services). These personnel were bolstered by the Center's nine-person crisis team. The report gives special attention to the Center's relationship with the local community action agency and the criminal justice system, describes the referral network, and documents the Center's progress toward each of its objectives. Some of these include training programs for police, criminal justice system officials, and private physicians and emergency staff; media broadcasts; case-by-case consultation with area schools; direct contact with a number of families affected by domestic violence; and establishment of operating procedures for securing emergency care and transportation for abuse victims. Names and addresses of members of the advisory council are listed, and publicity and materials used in the project are appended.