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‘Can you hear me?’
How a holistic approach incorporates the voice of children who have a
disability and/or mental health issue and are exposed to poverty and
abuse.
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Susanne Llopis
Disability Liaison Professional Community Living
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Presentation
• Special needs• Additional needs for children and their parents• Risk factors • Consequences of maltreatment• Integrated Child Centred Approach • Holistic Approach • Case Study• Conclusion
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Special needs children:
• Definition of ‘special needs’ is broad and includes a variety of different disabilities, health and mental health conditions that require special intervention, services, or support.(http://specialchildren.about.com/od/gettingadiagnosis/p/whatare.htm)
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Additional needs for
Children
Adequate care/Therapeutic
interventions
Protection/Support
Parents
Specific knowledge/ education
Resources/support
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Risk Factors
• Primary caregiver• Family• Child/young person – age/disability/mental
health • Environmental
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Consequences of child abuseand neglect
• Physical Health• Psychological• Behavioural
(Child Poverty Action Group Inc/New Zealand : Child Abuse: What role does poverty play? June 2013)
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Consequences for children with disabilities and/or mental health issues:
• More pronounced because of their already vulnerable physical and psychological state (Fact Sheet: Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities: http:/www.ridalaskaofchildabuse.org/Maltreatment.html)
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Solutions?
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Integrated Child Centred Approach
Incorporating the child’s voice:• Understanding and interpreting a child’s concept
of the world; their beliefs, values and worries
• Engaging children, young people as participants in the process
(http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/files/Every_Childs_Right_to_be_Heard.pdf)
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Listening To Children
“The right to speak is the right to be listened to; in practice there is a gap between speaking and being listened to.”
(http://www.unicef.org/adolescence/files/Every_Childs_Right_to_be_Heard.pdf)
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Listening to children
Hearing and responding to voices of children is critical: • In understanding the impact of harm • In developing new and innovative ways to
respond to abuse and neglect • In being responsive to what children identify as
the key issues causing them most concern
(Children with Disabilities/Australia: Enabling and Protecting /Issues Paper,ABN 42 140 529 273; Children and Youth Services review 3/2011: Maltreatment ofchildren with developmental disabilities: An ecologial systems analysis)
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‘Children’s Teams’
• Multi-Agency Service Response • Right service at the right time• Children have on plan
(http://www.childrensactionplan.govt.nz/news/childrens-teams)
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Is that enough?
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Holistic ApproachRelationship of trust /Key worker
Family Driven/
Incorporates Child’s voice
Identifies multiple needs of family
Individualised Services
Collaboration between formal and
informal support
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Case Study:
Ellen, Tom, Mike and Tessa’s story• Mike was diagnosed with a mild Intellectual
Disability• Ellen, mother, overwhelmed with situation • Tessa, Mike’s sister, felt misunderstood• Tom, father, was in prison/domestic
violence
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Ellen’s voice
“... You have been the only consistent support over the last year. That has helped us hugely and has encouraged us. Encouragement was what we have so desperately needed...”
“ ... Agencies came and told us what I have to do. You were listening and supported us in a way I could understand...”
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Conclusion
Acknowledge complexity and multiplicity of risk factors
Collaboration with holistic interventions/Early interventions
Education for professionals to identify child abuse at an early stage
Better outcomes
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Websites and resources: • Altogether Autism:
http://www.altogetherautism.org.nz• Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder:
http://fasd.alberta.ca/documents/Strategies_Not_Solutions_Handbook.pdf• Needs Assessment and Service Coordination Service (NASC):• http://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/disability-services/about-disability-support-
services/needs-assessment-and-service-coordination-service• Brainwave Trust:
http://www.brainwave.org.nz/• Listening to young disabled children
http://www.ncb.org.uk/media/74024/listening_to_young_disabled_children.pdf• The Risk and Prevention of Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities
https://www.childwelfare.gov/