Safety
VIP assists clients and families in developing physical safety plans and advocating within external systems related to child welfare and family violence.
- File VCAP claim for client/caregiver safety expenses reimbursement
- Outline application process
- Assist in completion of application
- Provide guidance about and assist with supplemental application components (e.g., receipts)
- Ask questions of VCAP personnel on behalf of clients and caregivers
- Submit physical copy of VCAP or provide necessary mailing items (envelope, stamps) to caregiver
- Follow-up on status of application and/or payment
- Make Child Protective Services (CPS) report
- Complete CPS report
- Engage in follow-up conversations related to CPS report
- Notify family about making CPS report (if applicable)
- Provide education and communication to family about missing child status
- Communicate with Department of Human Services/ Child Welfare Services
- Communicate with police department
- Communicate with caregiver
- Obtain status updates on missing child
- Provide physical safety planning for client
- Schedule safety planning meeting with school
- Coordinate safe living arrangements
- Establish set safety process for youth and family, including identifying safe people & places
- Refer youth to external violence prevention provider
- Refer client or caregiver to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) resources
- Refer client or caregiver to IPV resources
- Report missing client
- Make police report with caregiver
- Make report to National Human Trafficking Hotline
- Make report to National Network for Missing and Exploited Children
- Support client/caregiver in making police report
- Discuss and describe police report process with client and caregiver
- Follow up on police report with assigned law enforcement
- Make police report with client or family
- Provide family with updates related to police report process
- Obtain copy of police report for family