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Family & The Environment

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All parents need support.  Longer hours away from their children, disconnection from close extended family support, and fewer links between the family and the community all reduce the time, energy, and external supports available for rearing healthy children.  It is important for you to develop, refer to, and participate in community-based family support programs to help parents secure the knowledge, skills and support they need to raise a family.  It is also important for pediatricians to discuss with parents the need to identify a support system and “take breaks” (read more)

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Materials for this module are listed below.  Some are available for free download and others by purchase through the websites and/or organizations indicated.  Many of the tools here can be purchased from the same source, and it is therefore recommended that you browse through the materials in all of the modules and compile a list of the items you are interested in before placing your order with those organizations. 

Some of the Practicing Safety materials were created by the Practicing Safety Team, and others were compiled from various organizations that recognized child abuse and neglect as an important issues for pediatricians and families. 

UNLESS INDICATED, THE PRACTICING SAFETY MATERIALS HAVE NOT BEEN ENDORSED BY THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS, AND THOSE DEVELOPED FOR THE PURPOSE OF THE PRACTICING SAFETY PROJECT DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT POLICY OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS.

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Downloads
Parent Educational Materials
American College Of Obstetricians & Gynecologists Patient Pocket Shoe Card -
Domestic Violence

(available in English and Spanish)       
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.acog.org
"Single Parenting" brochure         (available in English and Spanish)
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.aap.org/bookstore
 When Children Witness Violence in the Home brochure      (available in English and Spanish)
downloadsMassachusetts Medical Society Public Health & Education 1-800-322-2303
 
Office Marketing Tools
 Refresh.  Renew.  Recharge Posters click here to download(available in English)
downloadsAvailable for download

 Refresh.  Renew.  Recharge Posters click here to download(available in Spanish)

downloadsAvailable for download
 
Staff Tools
Pediatric Intake Form Part Iclick here to download
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.brightfutures.org

Pediatric Intake Form Part IIclick here to download
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.brightfutures.org

 Social Connectionsclick here to download
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.aap.org/bookstore

 "Its Time To Ask:  An Instructional Program for Identifying and Intervening in Intimate
 
Partner Violence in the Pediatric Acute Care Setting"        (CD ROM)
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.hrsa.org

-Current Dilemmas in Screening for IPV in the Pediatric Health Care Setting

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 How to Screen for IPV in the Pediatric Acute Care Setting

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 Health Care Provider Responses to IPV

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 Effects on IPV Exposure on Children

 Pandora's Box - Discussing Sensitive topics with children and their families (VHS Tape)
downloadsAvailable for purchase through www.coaf.org
 

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