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The services regional
providers are to assist counties and MDTs with are as follows:
- Complex Case Consultation
Definition: Per OAR 137-083-0010 a "Complex Case" is a
case in which the local community assessment center or the local
multidisciplinary team determines the need for assistance from a
regional services provider in order to perform or complete a child abuse
medical assessment or to evaluate, diagnose or treat a victim of child
abuse. "Consultation" means discussions between a regional
services provider and multidisciplinary team members or staff from a
community center regarding individual cases involving child abuse, child
abuse medical assessments or related topics.
- Peer review for forensic interviewers and
medical assessments
Definition: Peer review is a forum for professionals to come
together to review forensic interviews and medical assessments and
provide constructive feedback to the persons conducting the interview or
assessment. Peer reviews may be conducted in person, via teleconference
or online.
- Forensic child interviewing training
Definition: To provide training regarding the forensic
interviewing of children. This training would be largely based upon the
Oregon Interviewing Guidelines and may be conducted by an interviewer
from the center providing regional center services, or by an interviewer
the center contracts with to provide the training within the proposed
service region. As forensic interviewing of children is such a broad
topic, other specialized aspects, such as interviewing children with
disabilities, may also be requested by constituents. If this is the
case, the center providing regional services may use their own expert to
provide this training, provide a referral to a qualified instructor or
training, or they may contract with an interviewer or agency to provide
this specialized training.
- Medical assessment training
Definition: To provide training regarding the medical assessment
of children. This training would be largely based upon the Oregon
Medical Guidelines (available from the DOJ website at http://www.doj.state.or.us/crimev/cami.shtml)
and may be conducted by a medical practitioner within the center
providing regional services, or by a practitioner the center contracts
with to provide the training within the proposed service region. For
more specialized training on this topic, the center providing these
services may use their own medical expert, provide a referral to a qualified
instructor or training, or they may contract with a practitioner or
agency to provide this specialized training.
- Referral and information
Definition: As the needs of multidisciplinary teams and centers
vary greatly, there will often be service requests that the center
providing regional services is unable to meet. In some cases the center
will not have the expertise to fulfill the service request, in other
cases the service request may fall outside of the core regional services
and the responsibility of the center providing those services. In these
cases,the center providing regional services must provide the
constituent with assistance and information that will facilitate their
access to the services they are requesting.
- Outreach
Definition: The center providing regional services is responsible
for conducting outreach to the multidisciplinary teams and centers
within their proposed service region. Through outreach, the center must:
- Establish a point of contact within each MDT and
center must:
- Convey what services they have to offer MDTs and
centers in the region.
- Gather information regarding what core regional
services might be needed from each MDT and center in the region.
- Follow up with MDTs and centers in the region on a
regular basis for a status or to find out if they have any service
requests.
- Expert witness testimony and referral
Definition: To facilitate access to expert witnesses for the
purposes of testifying in child abuse cases. These experts may be housed
within the center providing regional services or the center may provide
constituents with a referral to other expert witnesses throughout the
state if appropriate. Regional services funds are not intended to cover
the expert witness fees or traveling costs incurred by an expert
witness. These costs must be provided for by the entity requesting the
expert witness testimony.
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 Events
Our 2nd Annual Rural Institute on Child Abuse and Intimate Partner
Violence will be in Pendleton, Oregon.
It will be held at the Pendleton Convention Center on September 27-28, 2010.
Please keep checking back for updates about the
conference.
Resource/Information
Links:
Midwest Regional Advocacy Center-Your
Link to the NCA Net.
REGIONAL NEWSLETTER:
Nov-Dec 09
Regional Newsletter (pdf)
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