NCCEV Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) is available to communities
currently involved with the Safe Start Initiative (view
initiative) as well as to any individual, agency or community
interested in developing comprehensive service delivery systems to
prevent and reduce the impact of Childhood Exposure to Violence (CEV),
specifically domestic violence, child abuse or neglect.
NCCEV TTA is designed to identify and find solutions to organizational
and operational challenges through professional consultation and training.
Recognizing that responses of children exposed to violence are based
on their developmental stage, TTA helps communities to center responses
to children exposed to violence in developmental theory. Recognizing
that one size does not fit all when it comes to local interventions,
TTA helps communities forge and strengthen unique broad-based collaborative
efforts to decrease childhood exposure to violence by including law
enforcement and mental health professionals as partners serving children
exposed to violence. Specifically, TTA can assist sites to assess
readiness to implement collaborative programs, develop organizational
structures to meet community needs, and facilitate and enhance collaboration
among key stakeholders.
NCCEV TTA has helped communities:
• Grow capacities essential to collaborative
efforts, including willingness and ability to share information and
cases across organizations, an ability to cultivate a learning community
within each organization’s staff and among its partners and
standard policies, procedures, and protocols for responding to young
children exposed to violence and their families
• Acquire specific knowledge and skills
to work with young children exposed to violence, including state-of-the-art
intervention techniques
• Develop an understanding of the critical
role of law enforcement in efforts designed to serve children exposed
to violence, maximizing the formal and informal use of information,
and the capacity of law enforcement professionals to reinforce safety
and security
• Offer law enforcement professionals
alternatives to the 911 approach to serving families affected by domestic
violence, helping officers become attuned to the risks faced by children
raised in domestic violence relationships
As the official training and technical assistance provider for The
Safe Start Initiative and the CD-CP Network, NCCEV offers extensive
faculty and staff experience and expertise, access to the library
of a premier research university, which maintains a collection specially
devoted to children and trauma at the Yale School of Medicine, and
a staff dedicated to responding to your community’s need for
information. NCCEV consultants provide specialized assistance, brokering
external resources and coordinating cross-site training opportunities
where appropriate. NCCEV TTA is offered on-site and in our program
offices in both New Haven and at the SRTC (visit
SRTC) in Charlotte, NC. Contact
us to learn more.
