Jo Poshard of the Poshard Foundation says more and more social service agencies are interacting and sharing information. She believes they are trying hard to take a team approach to serve the best interest of the child.
“Trauma-focused training that we did and that we completed was a wonderful example of agencies coming together and working together,” Poshard said.
Ginger Meyer, clinical director for the Children’s Medical and Mental Health Resource Network, said the training grew out of a need they were seeing across Southern Illinois.
Before about 2015, CMMHRN only provided specialized medical evaluations for children who had been referred, such as when there is an open investigation due to a claim of child abuse. But the organization was seeing more complex trauma cases.
“We convened an advisory board to see what we could do about it,” Meyer said.
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