Comment by Linda Baker on August 8, 2011 at 3:01pm

AoA has announced the six new states awarded the Lifespan Respite program grants. These state are Colorado, Hawaii, Montana, New Jersey, Ohio and Virginia. These six states join the other 24 that have received grants to strengthen statewide dissemination and coordination of respite care, improve access to respite programs, and enhance the quality of respite care services. To learn more about these grantees and how to connect with the grantee in your state visit  http://aoa.gov/AoARoot/AoA_Programs/HCLTC/LRCP/index.aspx

Comment by Jill Kagan on March 9, 2012 at 9:10am

Please join me and Maggie Edgar in our presentation at the 18th at the 18^th National Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington DC.  Please consider attending the ARCH session Engaging Lifespan Respite Systems to Enhance Protective Factors, scheduled for Thursday, April 19, 2012  from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Columbia Hall 2. We will be talking about crisis nurseries, too. We look forward to seeing you there.

Comment by Jill Kagan on March 9, 2012 at 9:45am

To see a list of current Lifespan Respite grantees and state respite coalitions, as well as additional background information on Lifespan Respite, see www.archrespite.org

 

Comment by Jill Kagan on March 15, 2012 at 11:57am

Centers for Disease Control Report Child Abuse Costs Victims $200,000 Over A Lifetime

 

In a newly released report, The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the average cost to someone who experiences maltreatment as a child -- defined as physical abuse, psychological abuse, sexual abuse or neglect -- is $210,012 over the course of a lifetime.  To read the abstract, visit http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0145213411003140

 

Citation:  Fang, Xiangming^a; Derek S. Brown^b, Curtis S. Florence^a, James A. Mercy^a. (2012). The economic burden of child maltreatment in the United States and implications for prevention.^a National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Dis...^{. b} RTI International, Public Health Economics Program, Research Trian...^. Received 28 April 2011. Revised 30 September 2011. Accepted 12 Octo... http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.10.006

Comment by Jill Kagan on April 12, 2012 at 5:36pm

Just a week to go before the Network for Action Meeting on April 17. We hope you will join us to hear what connections we have made between CBCAP and other leaders in the child abuse community and state Lifespan Respite Programs and how you can get involved.  Also come rediscover how respite enhances protective factors in families at the ARCH workshop Engaging Lifespan Respite Systems to Enhance Protective Factors, scheduled for Thursday, April 19, 2012  from 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. in Columbia Hall 2.

 

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