30 professionals gather to launch Richmond pilot
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Representatives from across Richmond participating in the planning session.
The Richmond Pilot for the Provincial Safer Relationships – Safer Children initiative was launched last week at a full-day planning session with representatives from a number of community agencies. The day provided a solid foundation for Richmond to move forward over the coming months to establish a Family Centered System of Care and develop seamless information sharing protocols to keep families and children safe.
The Safer Relationships-Safer Children initiative is designed to help front-line staff in a variety of health and community settings to better and more consistently identify and manage situations where the safety of children may be at risk as a result of domestic violence or mental health and addictions issues.
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About the Richmond planning session
Representatives from The Provincial Office of Domestic Violence and Ministry of Child and Family Development were in attendance at the session along with members of the Vernon ICAT team and more than 30 professionals from the Richmond community. Participants represented agencies ranging from VCH Mental Health and Addiction programs, Hospital Emergency Department, Ministry of Children and Family Development, RCMP, Ministry of Social Development and a variety of community based programs including CMHA, Touchstone, Richmond Family Place, and the Supporting Families program.
Attendees explored current screening and training related to identifying at risk families across domestic violence, mental heath, substance use and child welfare. Other areas of discussion revolved around working collaboratively, identifying where, in our work, children become invisible, and the ethics of balancing the empowerment and engagement of parent’s/individuals while simultaneously keeping the safety of children paramount.
The goal of the Richmond community – based on the literature review, feedback from community members and the RCY recommendations – is to develop adult healthcare and child service systems that promote child safety and wellbeing of families affected by serious untreated mental illness, problematic substance use and/or domestic violence, with a focus on :
- family-centered practice;
- developing our own community and consultation model to address domestic violence, mental health, substance use and child welfare;
- enhancing outcomes by collaboration and coordination; and
- supporting the whole family while also ensuring the safety of children.
About the Provincial Safer Relationships – Safer Children initiative
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Vancouver Coastal Health is providing leadership in the first phase of the pilot project for Safer Relationships – Safer Children, an initiative launched by The Ministry of Children and Family Development and the Ministry of Health.
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The initiative is designed to help front-line staff in a variety of health and community settings to better and more consistently identify and manage situations where the safety of children may be at risk. Extensive consultations with service providers in both communities will inform the development of new screening tools, risk assessments, information sharing and referral process.
Richmond was chosen as one of two pilot sites for the community’s innovative collaborative programs “Supporting Families”, in which programs are delivered to support families with Parental Mental Illness, and are co-facilitated by VCH, MCFD and Community programs. Vernon was chosen as the second pilot site as a result of their innovative ICAT (Integrated Case Assessment Team) model to address domestic violence in a collaborative cross.
The pilots will involve emergency departments, primary care, public health, community mental health and substance use services, child and youth services and other community organizations. An evaluation of the pilots will assess how they are working, which will help shape province wide implementation, anticipated in 2014.
These pilots are part of government’s response to the Representative for Children and Youth’s report, Honouring Kaitlynne, Max and Cordon: Make Their Voices Heard Now.