Safe Start Promising Approaches

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Safe Start Promising Approaches

• Consortium for Children in Crisis
• Department of Justice, Office of Justice
  Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and
  Delinquency Prevention
• Initial Funding Period10/01/05-9/30/07
• Community Meeting
• October 7, 2005

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Funding Period

• Two year increments starting October 1, 2005
• RAND Corporation chosen as cross-site evaluator
• Implementation of clinical activities delayed
  until after November cross-site meeting in
  Washington, D.C. and review of site data plans

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Co-Applicants

• University of Miami, Department of Psychology,
  Linda Ray Intervention Center
• Miami-Dade County Department of Human Services
• Administrative Office of the Courts

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Memorandum of Understanding

• Clerk of the Courts
• Department of Children and Families
• Our Kids, Inc.
• Kristi House
• MUJER, Inc.
• City of Miami Police Department
• Miami-Dade County Community Action Agency
• COPSCARE, Inc.

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Miami Safe Start Initiative

• Built capacity in the evidence-based clinical
  dyadic therapy model with outcome data
• Established linkages with Head Start/Early Head
  Start (Community Action Agency) to establish
  initial site for enhanced services for children
  in the child welfare system
• Clinical services provided by Linda Ray Center
  and MUJER, Inc.
• Data analyses conducted by Louisiana State
  University, Health Sciences Center clinical staff
  under supervision of Joy Osofsky, Ph.D.
• Recognized by Governors Office and by the
  National Center for Children in Poverty and Zero
  to Three
• Training component for community providers and
  Head Start/Early Head Start
• Early Head Start Child Welfare Initiative
  followed with funding from Head Start
  Bureau/,Administration for Children, Youth and
  Families to expand to second site

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Taking the Safe Start Initiative to the Next
LevelIncrease capacity and identify
collaborative intersections

• Goal 1 To build capacity for implementing the
  evidence-based dyadic treatment model for babies
  and toddlers, exposed to, or the victims of
  violence, through a 6 month training program for
  up to 25 clinicians per year. (Joy Osofsky, Ph.D.
  coordinates training, DHS Family Victims
  Services clinical staff, Mailman Center,
  additional providers)

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Capacity Building

• Goal 2 To provide clinical treatment services
  to children 0-3 years old using the
  evidence-based model, and to pilot the model for
  a group of additional older children, 4-6 years
  old
• Goal 3 To implement the evidence-based treatment
  model on-site at domestic violence shelters for
  women/children

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• Goal 4 To expand the existing Heroes program
  at the Mailman Center for children 5-18 years old
  who have been witnesses/victims of violence, at
  that site and at the domestic violence shelters

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Collaborative Intersections

• Goal 5 To establish a more seamless response and
  referral system for the youngest children in the
  community from the target population to receive
  clinical services
• Goal 6 To provide training on child maltreatment
  and exposure to violence for Child Development
  Services childcare staff and childcare
  administrative personnel countywide

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Target childrenNewborn-Age 6

• Children where maltreatment is listed as an
  allegation on the shelter petition in Dependency
  Court
• Non-dependency cases where young children have
  been victims of maltreatment/ or witness to
  violence as verified by police reports

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• Families where domestic violence has been
  identified but has not reached the level of
  criminal charges with children in the age range
  for services
• Cases where child maltreatment and family
  domestic violence charges exist concurrently

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Research/EvaluationEstablish protocols,
procedures, policies based on research

• University of Miami Institutional Review Board
  process (IRB)
• Collect data on process of training the
  clinicians and the CDS childcare and
  administrative staff
• Collect data on clinical service implementation,
  pre and post interventions and examine comparison
  groups receiving status quo services
• Qualitative and quantitative analyses of
  aggregate data

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Implementation sites

• Inn Transition South
• The Lodge, Inc.
• Inn Transition North (comparison)
• Mailman Center Department of Social Work
• Linda Ray Intervention Center