Training
The RCCP was established to prevent abuse of children in residential child care. The project seeks to increase the quality of residential care by reducing the potential for physical and emotional injury to children when children pose a threat to their own and other’s safety. The institutional abuse component of this project assists local and state public agencies that are responsible for the prevention, investigation, and corrective action plans of reported institutional abuse. This assistance comes primarily in the form of direct training and technical support in a five-stage investigation process: reporting, initiating the investigation, conducting the ongoing investigation, making determinations, and recommending correction actions. Each of these stages has distinct actions and responsibilities for public investigatory agencies performing civil investigations. The three-day IAB training’s objectives, skills, outcomes, and curriculum agenda are listed below.
Objectives
Participants will learn:
—the legal basis for child protective intervention in residential care facilities
—the etiology of institutional maltreatment
—safety and risk factors
—dynamics of an institutional maltreatment investigation
—roles and responsibilities of the investigators
—crisis intervention and physical restraint guidelines
—multiple theory development
—five stages of an institutional maltreatment investigation, including coordination with law enforcement, licensing, and the facility
—criteria for decision-making at different stages of the investigation
—parameters of appropriate corrective action plans
Participants will practice skills in:
—making appropriate decisions at five stages of an investigation
—assessing appropriate and safe physical intervention techniques
—multiple case theory development
—intervention strategies within five stages of an investigation
Outcomes
Participants will:
—develop an investigation plan and make decisions within an investigation surrounding a physical restraint episode
—learn safety and risk factors associated with reports
—learn crisis intervention and physical restraint guidelines
—develop multiple theories about a reported case
—understand the roles an responsibilities of the CPS investigator, law enforcement, licensing, and facility administration
—know the investigation sequence and protocol
— explore the investigator bias about young people in care
Agenda
Welcome, Pretest, Introductions, and Expectations
Activity 1 | Establishing the Basis for Interventions in Out-of-Home Care: What Makes Out-of-Home Investigations Different? Criteria for Making Decisions About Maltreatment in Out-of-Home Care
Activity 2 | The Christmas Incident
Activity 3 | Organizational and Individual Factors which Lead to Out-of-Home Maltreatment
Activity 4 | Overview of a Five-Stage Investigation Process Roles and Responsibilities Within Each Stage
Activity 5 | Stage One—The Report: Issues in Reporting, Reporting Exercise
Activity 6 | Stage Two—Initiation of the Investigation: Safety Exercise, Assessing Safety and Risk Based on the Report
Activity 7 | Stage Two—Initiation of the Investigation: The Scientific Method of Problem Solving, Decision Making, Adult Biases and Expectations, Developing Theories of a Case
Activity 8 | How Do Restraints Occur in Residential Care Facilities?: Early Interventions
Activity 9 | Choosing a Safety Intervention
Activity 10 | Safety Issues
Activity 11 | Questions for Exploring: Documentation, Critical Incident
Activity 12 | Stage Three—The Continuation of the Investigation: Developing a Plan, Components of a Complete Investigation
Activity 13 | Stage Three—The Continuation of the Investigation, Suggested Sequence of Interviews, Interview With the Director, Interviewing in a Civil Procedure, What Put Me at Ease, What Interfered, What Helps Recall?
Activity 14 | Stage Three—The Continuation of the Investigation, First Priorities, Interview With the Young Person, Safety Assessment
Activity 15 | Truth and Deception: The Impossible Distinction, Interview With the Subject of the Report, Additional Sources
Activity 16 | Stage Four—Determination, Did the Investigation Produce Enough Information to Make a Decision?, Evidence Overview, Questions To Consider, Supporting Documentation, Types of Determinations
Activity 17 | Criteria for an Effective Crisis Prevention and Management System
Activity 18 | Stage Five—Corrective Action, Guidelines for Developing Corrective Action Plans, Exercise on Corrective Action Plans
Activity 19 | Summary and Evaluation
More Information About IAB Training
For the full spectrum of IAB programs and services, please contact either Michael A. Nunno (man2@cornell.edu) or Martha Holden (mjh19@cornell.edu).
