Defending Childhood: Protect, Heal, Thrive
The Attorney General’s Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence has released its final recommendations for a national response to address children’s exposure to violence. The report emphasizes prevention and intervention and underscores the importance of trauma-informed care and victim-tailored services and calls on the federal government, states, tribes, and communities to ensure that all children exposed to violence are identified, screened, and assessed; to create multidisciplinary councils to facilitate system wide collaboration; to involve men and boys as critical partners in preventing violence; and to help, not punish, child victims of sex trafficking.