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Community & Police Partnership Can Help Kids Who Witness Parental Violence

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An innovative police and community-based partnership, called the Child Trauma Response Team, was shown to be successful at screening and treating children for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) immediately after witnessing intimate partner violence, according to a new study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence.“Families that experience poverty, social disadvantage and structural racism are at a higher risk for severe intimate partner violence, but those same factors are also barriers to accessing the post-trauma support offered by community-based organizations,” said Amanda Stylianou, an expert on domestic violence and health outcomes at Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care.More than 7 million children in the U.S.

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