Fremont County’s Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action
Seeking to offer greater support to families in Fremont County, Starpoint applied for and in October 2017 was awarded a Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action (Framework) Community Planning Grant, putting the county on the front lines of planning efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect in Colorado. In addition to financial assistance from the Colorado Office of Early Childhood, the grant included extensive support from Early Milestones Colorado, a nonprofit intermediary that serves as a statewide conduit for best practices and high-impact ideas that promote success for young children and families in Colorado.
Coalition Partners
Child Maltreatment Prevention
Framework for Action
This framework is designed as a tool to guide strategic thinking at the state and local level, about resource investments to prevent child maltreatment and promote child well-being. As this tool is used collectively across the state, the resulting alignment of strategies will maximize the impact on shared outcomes.
Fremont County plans to prevent child maltreatment
Fremont County’s Child Maltreatment Prevention Framework for Action planning resulted in seven primary goals and corresponding objectives:
Increase job skills training (computer skills and financial literacy) to help parents get out of poverty.
- Increase computer skills (Excel, PowerPoint), financial literacy, resume, job application (at CCPL) of families by increasing attendance at library trainings by 42 people and getting other parents into education or one-on-one trainings/education opportunities by 100 people by end of 2019.
Increase parents’ motivation and help them to keep good jobs.
- 30% of low-income parent employees at 30% of employers that attended training on family-friendly workplace practices and local resources report staying on the job longer due to family-friendly job policies.
Increase number of warm handoffs following use of inpatient detox services by 45 individuals in 2019.
- Warm handoffs increase amount of outpatient services being accessed locally by 50% by 2019.
Increase warm handoffs by expanding local use of outpatient services after detox by 10-15% by 2019.
- Warm handoffs increase amount of outpatient services being accessed locally by 50% by 2019.
Increase number of low-income housing developments.
- Raise awareness of housing options and resources by creating a comprehensive local guide and providing that to 350 individuals by 2019.
Promote healthy behavior, responsible decision-making and increased opportunities for the community’s most vulnerable youth.
- Provide social emotional screening for 550 children under age six through ECHO Screening who might be at risk for social emotional issues and to provide appropriate services by July 2019.
Increase after-school, evening and weekend activities for youth and families.
- 60% of our programs’ youth who are referred by partner agencies have gone to one new program in pro-social affordable activities/programs by 2019.