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Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services Collaboration (DV/CPS)

This page briefly presents the history and strategies of the Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services grants. The full-text grant announcements from the Federal Register are listed below.

Fiscal Year 1995 Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Funds Program
Fiscal Year 1996 Family Violence Prevention and Services Discretionary Funds Program

Note: Each file listed above is in ASCII format and is about 110K in size.

About the DV/CPS collaboration

The Office of Community Services (OCS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), awarded Domestic Violence and Child Protective Services (DV/CPS) Grants beginning in 1994. Grantees were to address the need for collaboration, develop strategies for overcoming challenges to collaboration, and leverage opportunities to create new DV/CPS collaborative strategies for integrating domestic violence services into child protection systems. Strategies to be implemented included the following:

training child protective services (CPS) workers, supervisors, and other social services providers on the relationship between domestic violence and child abuse and neglect
developing domestic violence response policies to be adopted by the statewide child protection services system
incorporating, through the child protection system, a domestic violence curriculum, which would then become part of a mandatory training program
implementing memoranda of understanding between the child protection system and the domestic violence statewide system.

The DV/CPS grant program promoted the exchange of information and strategies between domestic violence advocates and CPS agencies. Such collaboration aimed at producing effective training and intervention protocols that could be used when domestic violence is encountered during CPS investigations. Collaboration between the CPS and domestic violence fields is a relatively new approach to the problem of family violence. The DV/CPS grant program pioneered the way to bridging the gap between the safety of children and the safety of mothers.

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