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University Daily Kansan, September 8, 1982
Victims of child abuse receive second chance at Med Center
By CASSIE MCQUEENY Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Victims of child abuse are being a second chance, thanks to the Child Protection University of Kansas Medical Center.
"Our goals include coordination, better diagnosis and treatment planning and education of the public of the seriousness of child abuse," Mary Bradley, chairman of the CPT, said recently. "We are trying to prevent child abuse, and we have saved a lot of kids."
The Child Protection Team, which was created in 1971, was modeled after a committee formed by Henry Kempe at the University of Colorado Medical Center. Kempe was responsible for the term "battered child."
"Kempe started the first model program in the country," Bradley said. "And since then, child protection teams have formed in many cities and towns."
ACCORDING to Bradley, the group represents many areas of expertise.
"We believe child prevention is a medical, legal and social problem," she said. "Team members come from different professional backgrounds, so coordinate our efforts and cooperate with each other to stlv for our goal."
Team members are from social service offices, juvenile courts, public health departments, mental and medical health centers, schools and hospitals.
"We have nurses and pediatricians and psychologists and social workers on the team. Bradley said, "We are confident, we can determine the best treatment plan."
Ann Mauer-Routh, CPT coordinator, said. "We are professionals who really care about kids. We handle about so cases each year, and we like to talk to them." The profession of child abuse which has become a problem in the past 10 years."
BRADLEY SAID the team provided a unified body to handle child abuse. She said when a case was referred to the CPT, several actions followed.
the CP7, several accounts
"We meet weekly to discuss cases
which we have received from various
agencies," she said. "And then we all
work together to figure out what
preventatives to pursue."
Bradley told of an 8-year-old girl who was brought to the Med Center's emergency room for treatment for an earlier illness.
When the nurse read the child's chart, she noticed that the child had been to the Med Center. Because the girl was released because of a lack of evidence.
THE NURSE privately interviewed the child, and the child revealed that she was still being abused by her stepfather. The nurse immediately called the CPT.
'After reporting the case to the SRS (Social and Rehabilitation Services),
who could not remove the child from the home because of a lack of evidence, we alerted the courts," Bradley said. "We got a temporary order to remove her from the hospital and place her in her room, but she came to the Med Center for evaluation.
"After she developed trust with the therapist, she confirmed that her stepfather had sexually abused her for many years. The courts then severed his marriage and placed her in the custody of her grandmother, who had requested custody.
"Everyone on the team worked on the case, and this is just one example of how we all coordinate our efforts to reach the goal of ending child abuse."
FUNDING FOR the team comes from several private foundations and individual donations. But Bradley said most of the workers were volunteers.
"We have one full-time staff coordinator," she said. "But team members are committed to helping because child abuse is a major concern which needs attention."
The immediate goal for the team is to set up an alert file that can be used by
"We hope to be able to recognize victims who are taken to different hospitals each time they are abused," she said. "We know parents take their children to different hospitals to avoid child abuse charges, and the files should help us to reduce hospital shopmers."
By DONNA KELLER Staff Reporter
The Volunteer Clearinghouse soon will enable Lawrence residents to trade skills and services through a new barter system.
Volunteers to barter services
Larry Carter, co-president of the Clearinghouse board of directors, said he hoped to get the program started within the next two weeks.
"We've been in the planning stage for about two months," Carter said. He said the Clearinghouse's goal was to begin the program before people started preparing their homes for winter.
"THE KEY to volunteerism is figuring out what skills you have that someone might want," Carter said. "There are many jobs that require simple skills.
In the past, the Volunteer Clearing-house has matched volunteers with agencies and organizations that needed its help. In the bartering program, one person's skills will be exchanged for another's.
simple actions.
"Someone with eyesight problems might want someone to read the newspaper to him; an elderly person in the community might need his lawn mowed in exchange for some home-baked cookies or someone may need transportation somewhere."
"I did well, and have to be
Carter said skills did not have to be specialized.
speculated.
"It isn't a one-on-one exchange," he said. "If people can't find things to
exchange, they owe the pool and not one specific person."
Anyone in the community can participate in the program, he said, and he hopes the program will serve between the campus and the town.
"OUR ROLE is to appeal to all types of people," he said. "There is a stereotype on the hill that students aren't willing to do volunteer work. In my experience, hill people are willing, they need suggestions and coordination."
The Clearinghouse will act as the coordinating office for the program, he said.
Carter said the Clearinghouse had had meetings on campus in the past to promote volunteerism in Lawrence which agencies needed assistance.
The next meeting is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Sept. 29 in the Walnut Room of the Kansas Union. Carter said information on volunteerism and the bartering would be provided at the program.
He said the organization needed volunteers to be office workers.
CARTER SAID he talked with representatives on campus from the Public Relations Student Society of America.
"They want to take on the project," Carter said. "I'll be meeting with them soon to get things coordinated."
Initially, he said, the bartering program would be limited to Lawrence, but he said there was a chance that it would succeed if the program was successful.
Carter said he was not sure yet whether the bartering program would blend in with the Cleansing program. The distinction would be made between the two.
Volunteer Clearinghouse will be offering two services: a volunteer program that coordinates agencies or individuals needing assistance and a program that matches one person is offering skills and services in exchange for someone else's, he said.
CARTER SAID that several burrowing systems were operating across the country, including one in the Kansas City area. Other members of the team expressed support and enthusiasm for the idea in Lawrence, he said.
The Volunteer Clearinghouse is a nonprofit organization subsidized by the United Fund. Carter said the organization expected to operate the bartering program out of the Clearinghouse budget.
The Volunteer Clearinghouse office is on the second floor of the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Office hours are 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday and 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays.
"Hopefully, we'll be operating at no expense other than photocopying materials," he said.
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