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CFSA Will Implement New Strategies to Improve Outcomes for Victims of Abuse and Neglect - Washington DC

"DC’s Child and Family Services Agency is about to become the first child welfare agency to build a trauma-informed system, using treatments that have been shown to help child victims of abuse and neglect recover more successfully and quickly. Research shows that trauma can damage a child’s brain architecture and impair functioning, with long-lasting consequences for that child’s well-being and ability to learn. Using trauma-focused treatments will train all the adults who work with children in the system—social workers, foster parents, lawyers, counselors and other professions—to minimize potential  triggers in the child’s environment and help the child find new ways to feel safe and in control...."

"The DC KIDS COUNT Data Center is one place where that information is available to everyone in the city, and we will be uploading new data on child safety in the coming
weeks. Check back soon to see key safety indicators, such as children who are placed in kinship foster care and exits from foster care to a permanent home."

http://www.dcactionforchildren.org/blog/cfsa-will-implement-new-strategies-improve-outcomes-victims-abuse-and-neglect

The Kids Count Data Center is posted in our Evidence-based Programs/Measures/Data resource page.

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