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6/19/2000
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Board of Commissioners
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Since February 1998, members of the Community Child Protection Team have also taken an active part in the <br />Cabarrus Partnership for Children, the county's Smart Start organization. Members of the CCPT who are serving <br />on the Parmership Board of Directors include DSS Director Jim Cook, Dr. David Lockhart, Arc Director Terri <br />Bobbitt. Anne Lankaitis, Executive Director of the Partnership for Children, has als0 served as chair of the CCPT <br />since 1996. Smart Start projects that are child protective in nature include an intensive home visiting program, <br />support for the Children's Advocacy Center, a Child Care Health Consultant to provide health and safety education <br />and services to child care centers and the Cabarrus Cares for Kids Health and Safety Fair. <br /> <br />Participation at CCPT meetings has been consistently good, with about 15 to 20 persons present at each meeting. <br />Meeting agendas include topics of interest and concern, presented for team information and/or discussion, and <br />announcements of interest or relevance. The team has occasionally had guest speakers on important topics. On <br />occasion, the team has lent its support to problems that would benefit from multi-county support, notably the <br />advocacy efforts by the Catawba County CCPT to pass statutory rape legislation. <br /> <br />CCPT meeting agendas always include reviews of cases presented by social workers and their supervisors. <br />Community needs and gaps in services are identified through the discussions that follow the presentations. Action <br />steps have been planned and carried out. Minutes are always prepared and distributed to participants before the <br />next meeting. Records of all CCPT meetings since 1991 have been retained. Jim Cook, DSS Director, served as the <br />original chair of the CCPT, followed in 1994 by CPS Supervisor Connie Polk. Since 1996, Anne Lankaitis, <br />formerly a supervisor with the Division of Child Development and currently the Executive Director of the county's <br />Smart Start, has served as chair. The team has reported regularly to the Board of County Commissioners, as <br />required. Copies of the last four reports are included as attachments. <br /> <br />In January 1997, members of the CCPT responded to the Governor's Survey on Child Abuse and Neglect. This <br />committee identified two major barrier/problems that are major barriers to the prevention of child abuse and <br />neglect: <br />1. Lack of knowledge of children's development and parenting/caregiving skills on the part of parent and <br /> caregivers. The committee stated that there is a great need for appropriate, affordable, readily available parent <br /> and caregiver education, especially in regards to child development, age-appropriate expectations, and <br /> parenting/caregiving skills. <br />2. Funding is inadequate or nonexistent for programs in social services, day care, public schools, mental health <br /> and public health to prevent child abuse and neglect. <br /> <br />Other barriers mentioned but not prioritized as the top two included the existence of substance abuse among parents <br />investigated for alleged abuse/neglect; poverty; lack of affordable, suitable housing; exploitation of children by the <br />media and children's early exposure to inappropriate material; society's lack of valuing of children, as indicated by <br />measure of childhood poverty; perpetuation of abuse/neglect within families, with a succession of children within <br />the same family being victimized. <br /> <br />The team received one of three awards at the Child Protection Team Conference in 1995 for collaborative effort to <br />establish a Children's sexual abuse protocol. The team received one of five awards at the Kaleidoscope of Caring <br />Conference in October 1996 for collaborative efforts to identify increased resources for the growing Hispanic <br />population in the county. <br /> <br /> <br />
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