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The Iowa Department of Human Services has
multiple services to keep children safe. See the "Resource"
section of this course for a complete listing of the local
county offices of the DHS, or go to http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/Consumers/Find_Help/MapLocations.html.
Iowa Child Abuse Prevention Programs, authorized
by the legislature, provides services through local Child
Abuse Prevention Councils. These Councils provide services
based on the communities' needs. Some of the services provided
include: crises nursery, parent education, respite care, sexual
abuse prevention, and young parent support (PCA-I, 2007).
According to the Department of Human Services
(n.d.a.), Community Partnerships for Protecting Children (CPPC)
is an approach that recognizes "keeping children safe is everybody's
business." Community Partnerships for Protecting Children
is an approach that neighborhoods, towns, cities, and states
can adopt to improve how children are protected from maltreatment.
- It aims to blend the work and expertise of professionals
and community members to bolster supports for vulnerable
families and children.
- Community partnerships is not a "program" - rather, it
is a way of working with families that helps services be
more inviting, needs-based, accessible, and relevant.
- It incorporates prevention strategies as well as those
needed to address maltreatment, once identified.
For more information on CPPC, go to
http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/cppc/what_cppc/index.html.
Community Based Child Abuse Prevention (CBCAPP)
programs designed to support networks of resources/services/activities
to strengthen and support families in order to reduce the
likelihood of child abuse and neglect. Services provided may
include (PCAI, 2007):
- offering assistance;
- providing early, comprehensive support for parents;
- promoting the development of parenting skills, especially
in young parents and parents with very young children;
- increasing family stability;
- improving family access to other resources within communities;
- support the additional needs of families with children
with disabilities through respite care and other services;
- demonstrate a commitment to meaningful parent leadership,
including among parents of children with disabilities, parents
with disabilities, racial and ethnic minorities, and members
of underrepresented and underserved groups;
- provide referrals to early health and development services.
According to Prevent Child Abuse Iowa (2007) the following
services are offered at these specific county locations:
- Crisis Child Care - Adams, Adair, Bremer, Butler,
Cerro Gordo, Dallas, Franklin, Grundy, Hancock, Union, Winnebago
and Worth counties;
- Group and Home-Based Parent Education - Adams,
Adair, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Buchanan, Buena Vista,
Calhoun, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clay, Delaware,
Dickinson, Fayette, Floyd, Hancock, Henry, Iowa, Jackson,
Jasper, Jefferson, Keokuk, Marshall, Mills, Mitchell, Monona,
Montgomery, Muscatine, Worth, Winnebago, Osceola, O'Brien,
Shelby, Harrison, Poweshiek, Tama, Washington, Van Buren,
Polk, Lyon, Plymouth, Union, Webster and Pocahontas
- Parent Support Groups - Benton, Black Hawk, Boone,
Hamilton, Humboldt, Ida, Iowa, Linn, Polk, and Sioux
- Respite Child Care - Allamakee, Audubon, Bremer,
Butler, Carroll, Clayton, Dubuque, Franklin, Greene, Grundy,
Guthrie, Johnson, Howard and Winneshiek
- Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Activities - conducted
by all CPPC sites
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa also subcontracts with Iowa
Respite and Crisis Care Coalition to offer respite care to
families with children with disabilities and crisis care to
families in need of emergency child care.
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