NCJ Number
160974
Date Published
1992
Length
500 pages
Annotation
This looseleaf manual presents the course outline and materials for training aimed at assisting local jurisdictions in learning and practicing the interagency team approach to dealing with missing and exploited children.
Abstract
The training is designed to develop problemsolving, planning, and team building skills with the community's agency personnel to enable them to operate a multidisciplinary, interagency, community-based case and service management program that ensures that courts receive all pertinent information for making informed case decisions. The training course consists of eight modules to be presented over approximately 40 hours or 4.5 to 5 days. The course delivery is designed for three to five instructors, one of whom is the training team leader. Training techniques include lectures, discussions, and nominal group exercises. Topics include the history and goals of the Missing and Exploited Children Comprehensive Action Program (M/CAP); problemsolving; team building; the roles and responsibilities of law enforcement, child protective services, schools, prosecution, mental health, nonprofit organizations and special interest groups, medical services, courts; implementation issues; and the development of the implementation plan and time lines. Worksheets, note-taking guides, figures, background information, and approximately 200 references