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NEW YORK, NY

Ambulatory Care Network—New York Presbyterian Hospital
534 West 135th Street
New York, NY 10031
212.491.2325

Purpose
To develop a comprehensive response for identifying, referring, and treating children exposed to violence and their mothers in the Washington Heights and Inwood communities of New York.

Interventions

Child Parent Psychotherapy for Domestic Violence (CPP-DV): The program provides child-parent psychotherapy for families with children from birth to 5 years of age. Dyads meet 1 hour a week for 1 year and focus on intervention strategies that address conduct disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression.

Kids Club:  The program provides Kids’ Club groups to children from 6-12 years of age. These groups meet once a week for 90 minutes over a period of 12 weeks. The Kids’ Club intervention provides information about domestic violence and discusses attitudes and beliefs about families, relationships, and family violence. It also works on developing appropriate social behavior in small group settings. The program also offers Reflective Parenting groups to parents of children from 6-12 years of age at the same time that the child participates in the Kids’ Club group. These groups, which also meet once a week for 90 minutes, are intended to strengthen and improve the parent-child relationship, teach new ways for parents to communicate with their children, and help parents feel more confident in their parenting.

Coordinating Council: A range of community-based private and public providers work on a coordinating council that develops a strategic plan and creates policies, procedures and products. The Coordinating Council also coordinates services that respond to the needs of families enrolled in the program.

Promising or Evidence-Based Strategy

Child Parent Psychotherapy for Domestic Violence (CPP-FV): Toth, S. L., Maughan, A., Manly, J. T., Spagnola, M., and Cichetti, D. (2002). The Relative Efficacy of Two Interventions in Altering Maltreated Preschool Children's Representational Models: Implications for Attachment Theory. Development and Psychopathology 14(4), 877-908.

The Kids Club: Intervention with groups of children in families with domestic violence. Graham-Bermann, S. (1977). Available from Sandra Graham-Bermann, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1109.