SCAN INC
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Mission Statement
SCAN protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to Stop Child Abuse and Neglect. Our vision is the elimination of the abuse and neglect of children. SCAN believes... •All children deserve to be safe, loved, and nurtured. •Families want to do their best for their children. •Parenting is life's most challenging job and SCAN is here to help. •Children should be in their family's home whenever possible. •Safe children and strong families create a better community.
About This Cause
More than four decades ago, the issue of child abuse and neglect was just beginning to receive national attention, yet locally, a group of community volunteers were already taking action. SCAN (Stop Child Abuse and Neglect) was founded in 1974 by community leader and dedicated social worker, Charlotte Salinger, along with 10 of her peers. SCAN began with initial seed money from the United Way of Allen County. In the beginning, the agency was operated by Ms. Salinger, community volunteers, and just one staff. As awareness of the horrors of child abuse swept the nation in the 1980's, child abuse reporting laws strengthened and SCAN expanded, hiring more staff and increasing its geographic reach to serve more families. In the 1990's the agency added the Healthy Families and Family Preservation programs. In 2000, SCAN found its home in downtown Fort Wayne. Since moving to the heart of the city, SCAN has continued to thrive. The agency has added the Daybreak Crisis Homes, Family Connections, Community Partners/Network for Safe Families, Be SomeOne Now, and the Joan Sherman Program for Resilient Children. In 2014 and 2015, SCAN enhanced Family Preservation programming by providing therapeutic clinical services for families most in need. In the past two years, the agency has also ventured into entrepreneurial activities, including the development of The Courtyard, an alternative housing community for youth who are aging out of foster care or who are at risk for homelessness. These activities and programs have diversified SCAN's funding and allowed the agency to reach more families in need, while holding true to its mission to stop child abuse and neglect. Today, SCAN employs nearly 200 staff who impact more than 4,900 families annually across a 19-county region in northeast and north central Indiana through our two branches of services: Prevention and Family Preservation. Prevention programs served 4,311 families at-risk for experiencing child maltreatment in FY2014; these programs include… • Daybreak Crisis Homes – Short-term emergency respite care for children, age 11 years and younger, when families face crises. SCAN staff work with parents to resolve their situation so their children can be returned to a safe environment. • Healthy Families – In-home parent education services for families of newborns. This program builds positive relationships between parent and child, creates a healthy and safe home environment, and teaches parents proper behavioral/developmental milestones for their child. • Community Partners/Network for Safe Families – Home-based case management and crisis intervention for parents struggling with unemployment, anger management, behavioral/ mental health concerns, domestic violence, or other issues affecting their ability to parent. • Be SomeOne Now – A joint program with Northeast Indiana Works that provides support and direction to youth ages 16-21 to help them earn their GED, enroll in post-secondary education, and/or find a job. • Family Connections – Group and individual services including court-approved pre-divorce classes, Kids & Divorce workshops, parenting coordination, child exchange, supervised parenting time, conflict resolution skills classes, and home/life parent evaluations. • Education Services – A volunteer supported program providing free, age-appropriate community-based workshops about preventing child maltreatment, bullying, gun safety, and other pertinent topics for children ages 3-18 and adults. • Read To Me – Provides age-appropriate books to children to increase literacy and create a reading routine between parents and their children. Family Preservation programs served 598 families who experienced or were at immediate risk of experiencing child abuse/neglect in FY2014; these programs include… • Clinical Services (Home-Based Family Centered Therapy, Counseling, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, & Family Centered Treatment) – Collaborative and individualized evidence-based services designed to restore families, improve family functioning, and break the cycle of abuse and neglect in families with the greatest intensity of need. • Supervised Visitation – Conducted at SCAN, in the client's home or in public, this service teaches families parenting skills while maintaining the safety of children who have been removed from the home due to substantiated abuse/neglect. • Home-Based Case Management - Provides in-home, one-on-one services to parents to help families recover from physical, sexual and/or emotional abuse or neglect. • Homemaker Services – SCAN's staff monitor visits between parents and their children, take parents to appointments, help parents learn how to clean their home and care for their child/children. • Intensive Intervention Team - The team responds to rapidly correct crisis situations that are at immediate risk for maltreatment and could lead to a child's removal from the home. • Joan Sherman Program for Resilient Children - Developed in 2012, this 5-year evaluation study is conducted in partnership with the Devereux Center for Resilient Children. Devereux is the largest non-profit behavioral health organization in the United States and the leader in development of programs and services that foster resilience in children and the adults who care for them. SCAN uses Devereux's strength-based assessment tools to measure and research children's emotional strengths, attitudes, behaviors, and resilience, which help them bounce back from the trauma of abuse/neglect. We know that even for those families who do not voluntarily enroll in the Sherman Program at SCAN, they too are benefiting from the program's resilience building strategies that our staff, known as “family coaches,” incorporate into all Family Preservation services.