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Safe Start Promising Approaches Communities
DAYTON, OH
Artemis Center
310 West Monument Avenue
Dayton, OH 45402
937.531.5700
Purpose
To expand the capacity of the community to respond to the needs of young children and their mothers who witness or experience domestic violence.
Interventions
Home Visitation: The Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence provides ongoing training on domestic violence to nurses who perform home visits. This training aims to build the nurses’ capacity to identify, assess, and respond to the needs of young mothers of children from birth to 3 years of age who are at risk of or exposed to domestic violence. During home visits, the nurses place special emphasis on attaining and maintaining safety and advocacy, as well as on assessing the progress of both parent and child.
Case Management: The program provides intensive case management in the home through a personal family advocate. This case management emphasizes supports and linkages with community resources.
Psychotherapy: In addition to the traditional home visiting services, the program offers weekly in-home dyadic therapy that focuses on the relationship between mother and child.
Promising or Evidence-Based Practices
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP): David L. Olds, Peggy L. Hill, Sharon F. Mihalic, and Ruth A. O’Brien. Blueprints Model Program. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Child Parent Psychotherapy: Van Horn, P. and Lieberman, A. (2006). Child-Parent Psychotherapy and the Early Trauma Treatment Network. Collaborating to Treat Infants, Toddlers, and Preschoolers. Children Exposed to Violence. Feerik, M. and Silverman, G. (Eds.). Paul Brooks: Baltimore.
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