Developing an International Toolkit for Mapping Agency Response to Child Maltreatment

Andreas Jud, Lisa Jones, Christopher Mikton

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Copenhagen, September 3, 2014 An initiative sponsored by UBS Optimus Foundation in collaboration with World Health Organization

Developing an International Toolkit for Mapping Agency Response to Child Maltreatment

- Internationally, research on (incidence of) agency response to child maltreatment is lacking – even in high income-countries.

- Meeting with expert panel including principle investigators of previous nationally representative studies on child maltreatment incidence: Fadia AlBuhairan Lillian Artz Saskia Euser Jörg Fegert David Finkelhor John Fluke Andreas Jud

Expert Panel

KSA RSA NED Lisa Jones Rachel Lael-Szabo James Mansell GER USA USA SUI Chris Mikton Sakis Ntinapogias Andrea Sedlak Nico Trocmé USA ISR NZL UNO GRE USA CAN Slide 2, September 3, 2014

Linking readers with resources

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Handbook for Mapping Legal, Health and Social Service Responses to Child Maltreatment

(Draft)

0. Introduction to Handbook

0.1 Readiness for Applying the Guidelines 0.2 Overview on Previous Studies

1. Agency Selection

1.1 Agency Mapping 1.2 Agency Sampling

2. Case Selection 3. Definitions, Variables, Coding 4. Strategies in Analyzing Data 5. Obtaining Successful Agency and Professional Participation

5.1 Collaboration between Academics, Policy-makers, Field Workers 5.2 Cost Issues 5.3 Dissemination 5.4 Sustainability Slide 4, September 3, 2014

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Mapping Child Protection Authorities

Mapping Framework

Help

Function

Protect Justice Intervention / Placement Assessment/ Investigation Screening Referral/ Report

Traditional Professional Legally Mandated Government run services

Authority

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Collaboration between Academics, Policy-makers, Field Workers

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Preparatory Work

1) Build in plenty of time for buy-in, recruitment, approval of administrators, and access to frontline professionals!

2) Anticipate and identify issues that are core to practice and might be addressed by your research on mapping agency response to CM! 3) Glossary of terms for disciplines and (federal) regions

Glossary for Switzerland

4 major disciplines 3 major languages 26 federal units Slide 9, September 3, 2014 = 612 CPS and sentinels

Finding Collaborators – Facilitators and Political Allies

- An approach to value the context-specific knowledge and improve access to a network of facilitators is conducting research with a multisite and/or multidisciplinary team. - Preferably, some of the facilitators are political and societal authorities  Saudi Arabia : Importance of involving members of clergy and royal family - If different disciplines are involved, e.g. social work, psychology, medicine, each of them has to be addressed separately. - It might be essential to treat the inclusion of representatives of a province’s Aboriginal population or from other ethnic minorities with extra care.  Canada: The CIS has a strong commitment to honoring the principles of Aboriginal Ownership of, Control over, Access to, and Possession of research conducted in Aboriginal contexts (OCAP principles).

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Finding Collaborators – Key Administrators and Frontline Staff

- Key administrators should be involved at an early stage to discuss the procedure of getting access to staff and files. - The processes of getting formal approval may however vary based on legal frame and organizational culture (if administered at national, provincial or even municipal level).

- Finally, the framework of knowledge mobilization should also be applied to frontline staff. Trust may build up trough involving a sample of frontline workers at an early stage. Slide 11, September 3, 2014

Threats to Participation and Incentives

- Even while avoiding client identifiers is in accordance with research ethical guidelines, still researchers have to proactively and transparently communicate their methods of securing confidentiality. - Participating in a national survey on service provision is quite readily associated by frontline workers and agencies with concerns about being evaluated and compared. - Work burden is potentially the biggest threat to participation. Extra work for data collection will either conflict with work time for clients, or with the worker’s free time. - Transparency on financial resources: Non-interference in analyses and dissemination of important findings must be guaranteed by the foundation and proactively communicated to participants.

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Discussion

- Do you suggest any further topics to be covered by the toolkit? - Do you have resources to recommend that readers could be linked with?

- Do you have examples on surveys on agency response to child maltreatment that could enrich the toolkit?

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References

Jud, A., Fluke, J., Alink, L.R., Allan, K., Fallon, B., Kindler. H., Lee, B.J., Mansell, J., van Puyenbroek, H. (2013). On the nature and scope of reported child maltreatment in high-income countries: opportunities for improving the evidence base. Paediatr Int Child Health, 33(4), 207-15. doi: 10.1179/2046905513Y.0000000092. Slide 14, September 3, 2014