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FUNDING YOUR CHILD ABUSE DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT PROGRAM: STRATEGIES FOR CREATING FISCAL SOLVENCY

Presenters: Martin Finkel 

Abstract Category: Medical

Instruction Level: Beginner

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Description:

Proven strategies for achieving fiscal solvency necessary to stabilize and grow child abuse diagnostic and treatment programs.

Abstract:

Many child abuse diagnostic and treatment service programs fail to meet the needs of the communities that they serve because of a lack of fiscal support to develop and expand. Medical diagnostic services are critically important to state child protective services agencies, as they are vital to the statutory mandate to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect. Most CAN medical programs throughout this country have developed out of the good will of individual practitioners who constantly struggle with meeting the clinical needs of the children they serve. The inability to expand for many programs has been limited by institutional resources. Every successful and growing program for the most part has been dependent on the ability of its director to conduct bake sales, secure foundation grants or appropriately funded contractual services to grow.

The current manner in which many programs operate limits their future and compromises CPS’s ability to have an important professional resource at their hands. Strategies for developing strong partnerships with state CPS officials to assure their fiscal responsibility for securing medical expertise will be discussed. This workshop will present strategies to creating permanency and fiscal solvency for programs.