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Kids Intervention and Diagnostic Service (KIDS) Center 1375 NW Kingston Avenue Bend, OR 97701 (541) 383-5958 (541) 383-3016 Fax Medical Director: Susan K. Reichert, MD The KIDS Center is a community based program for medical assessments of child abuse. A full assessment includes medical and social history of caretaker, physical examination with photographic and colposcopic documentation of findings, a videotaped interview and debriefing with the caretaker. (If the full assessment is conducted in the context of the examination, a videotaped interview in a separate room may not be conducted). A physician or nurse practitioner and a licensed clinical social worker conduct the assessment as a team. Child protective service workers and law enforcement may observe the assessment through a video monitor to avoid multiple interviews. The KIDS Center also offers therapy, parent training and advocacy services, and KIDS Center staff members coordinate the Child Abuse Multi-Disciplinary Team of Deschutes County.
Community based program for forensic medical evaluations of child physical and sexual abuse. Evaluations include videotaped interview, medical evaluation with video colposcopy, and an advocacy program to aid victims.
Founded in 1987, the staff of CARES Northwest provide medical evaluations with the use of photo/video colposcopes and specialized forensic video-taped interviews in the assessment of children for sexual abuse, physical abuse, and/or neglect. Over 1200 children seen annually at the community based center which is a collaborative effort of three health care organizations (Kaiser Permanente, Legacy Emanuel Children's Hospital and OHSU-Doernbecher's Children's Hospital). A multidisciplinary approach is utilized with community partners of protective service workers and law enforcement officers present for evaluations as well as mental health therapists on site to provide crisis intervention and follow-up treatment for those families with no other counseling resources. CARES Northwest staff provide local and regional consultations and training as well as participating in CRESAC (Collaboration for Research on the Sexual Abuse of Children).
Rural location on Oregon coast. Handled within a private pediatric practice setting. Colposcope with photo capability available. Physician in charge has performed more than 500 abuse evaluations most of them sexual abuse. Is somewhat of a "model" program, physician lectures on conducting abuse assessments in the private practice setting.
The Suspected
Child Abuse and Neglect Team (SCAN) is a hospital-based multidisciplinary
program that assesses suspected child abuse cases, both locally and
referred, reports abuse episodes to the appropriate authorities, and
educates students, medical residents, faculty, and community health
professionals on legal, medical and social aspects of child abuse.
SCAN is a community partner with C.A.R.E.S., NW, based in Emanuel
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