Project Report
| May 24, 2012
News from CARES Northwest - May 2012
By Gina Anzaldua | Project Leader
CARES Northwest provides medical care and assessments for children in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington for whom there are concerns of abuse or neglect. Throughout our 25-year history, our approach has been to do what is in the best interest of each child’s health, safety and healing. So far this year, CARES Northwest has provided more than 500 outpatient child abuse assessments.
We want to share some recent highlights:
- CARES Northwest was recently awarded $10,000 thanks to a group of tremendously dedicated volunteers known as the KP Quilters. The KP Quilters received Kaiser Permanente’s David Lawrence Community Service Award for demonstrating outstanding efforts to improve the health and well-being of our community. Last year, this group donated 120 lap-size quilts—as well as numerous toys, clothes and toiletries—to CARES Northwest. The handmade quilts provide warmth and comfort to the many vulnerable children we serve. As part of their award, the KP Quilters chose to donate $10,000 to CARES Northwest.
- In support of Child Abuse Prevention Month, CARES Northwest “planted” dozens of bright blue and silver pinwheels in the Children's Garden at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center and displayed three large posters to help educate our community about preventing child abuse and neglect. “Pinwheels for Prevention” is a national program coordinated by Prevent Child Abuse America that aims to engage communities in combating child abuse through education and outreach. The Children’s Trust Fund of Oregon generously donated the pinwheels for our garden display.
- CARES Northwest recently honored three “prevention all-star” teachers at Jackson Middle School in Portland, Ore. These exceptional teachers partner with our Child Abuse Prevention Team to ensure their seventh-grade health students learn about abusive head trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome and sexual abuse prevention.
Your generous support helps make it possible for us to serve the growing number of children who need our help. For more information, please visit www.caresnw.org or call us at (503) 276-9000.
Thank you for your partnership and continued support.
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Feb 14, 2012
CARES Northwest Update Feb. 2012
By Sharon Sipprell | Project Leader
CARES Northwest is a collaborative, community-based medical program for the assessment and treatment of child abuse. This month we thought we would share with you some information from the services we provided in 2011.
Of the 1,512 children who received outpatient assessment services at CARES Northwest this past year:
- An average of 126 were served each month
- An average of 6 were served each day
- Gender: 67% girls and 33% boys
- Age:
Preschool (<5): 26%
Elementary school (5-12): 49%
Teen (13-17): 25%
Referral concerns (alone or with other concerns; total exceeds 100%):
- Sexual Abuse: 59%
- Physical Abuse: 29%
- High risk environment: 24%
- Neglect*: 9%
- Witness to violence: 6%
- Drug-endangered child: 4%
- Non-abuse/second medical opinion: 1%
*Most often, children evaluated for concerns of neglect are evaluated for other types of abuse as well.
Your generous support helps make it possible for us to serve the growing number of children who need our help. For more information, please visit www.legacyhealth.org/caresnwgiving or contact CARES Northwest at 503-276-9000.
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Nov 15, 2011
Update on CARES Northwest
By Sharon Sipprell | Project Leader
One area your gift supports at CARES Northwest is urgent assessments. These are same-day medical evaluations of children being seen for concerns of serious physical abuse, sexual abuse or neglect. In 2010, CARES Northwest served 375 children for urgent assessments. Through August 2011, we have served 272 children, which annualized would equate to 408 or a 9% increase over the previous year.
CARES Northwest has seen an upward trend in urgent appointments over the past six years. In 2006, urgent appointments represented one out of every six children served, or less than one per day. Today, more than one out of every four children are seen urgently, averaging more than one per day and sometimes reaching as many as eight per day.
Children seen on an urgent basis:
- Tend to be younger
- Are more likely to be in protective custody or foster care
- Are more apt to be evaluated for concerns of physical abuse
- Are more likely to be diagnosed as victims of abuse
Now more than ever, your support is needed to help these children. Thank you.
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