ERIC Number: EJ1254254
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jun
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At the Front Lines: Effectively Training Community Stakeholders to Recognize and Report Child Abuse and Neglect
Gardner, Samantha L.; Derouin, Anne; Brown, Ryan; Johnson, A. Diann
Journal of School Nursing, v36 n3 p181-186 Jun 2020
In states with universal mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect (CAN), it is essential that people who work with children and youth in a community be appropriately trained to recognize and report CAN. The primary goal of CAN training is early detection and intervention with a secondary purpose of impacting rates of violence, disease, drug use, and teen pregnancies in the community. The purpose of this project was to implement a standardized, community-tailored CAN training for laypersons and a train-the-trainer program in a rural Oklahoma community. The CAN training was evaluated on knowledge, confidence, training satisfaction, and willingness to participate in the train-the-trainer session. The train-the-trainer session was evaluated on confidence and training satisfaction. Participant knowledge and confidence was measured by comparing pretest scores to immediate and 4 months after the training posttest scores. Posttest scores indicated increase in knowledge at the posttest (p < 0.001) and posttest 2 (p < 0.001). There was a significant increase in confidence at the posttest (p < 0.001) and posttest 2 (p = 0.009).
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Violence, Diseases, Intervention, Pretests Posttests, Comparative Analysis, Scores, Rural Areas, Drug Use, Pregnancy, School Nurses, Churches, Faculty Development, Program Descriptions, Participant Characteristics, Disclosure, Training, Child Welfare, Identification, School Health Services, Volunteers
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oklahoma
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