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County alone were over 1.8 million dollars in 2008. A) The project specific activities that will be done over the next two years will include direct victims services, victim services training, outreach and community education and structured education. The specific activities of direct victim's services will involve first-line responders providing crisis intervention, law/court/medical accompaniment and coordination, counseling, victim follow-up and education, and assistance with community referrals to children and their non-offending family members in the hopes the child(ren) will remain in the home. Through victim's services training, stakeholders in the child welfare system will continue their education on the needs of child victims of crime and their non- offending caregivers. With this project, law enforcement, school faculty, and medical professionals will all receive specialized training in the treatment of traumatized and victimized children. This will lead to a higher understanding of the long-term effects and treatment of child victimization. This should in-turn produce a healthier community. (A.)For children who are unable to remain in their homes because it is unsafe, community volunteers will also become trained to provide victim advocacy for Lamar County children in foster care. Trained volunteers will inform our children of their rights, help them through the legal system and advocate for their best interest, assist them in their recovery, and establish a continuum of care for our children in foster care. Every child in foster care needs an advocate. Through outreach and community education, this project will assist us in identifying possible child victims of crime, as well as educate the community on the devastating affects of crime on children. The structured education piece of this project deliver a curriculum-based presentation to student populations that helps reach possible victims who might not otherwise be reached or provided services. (B) These activities will help to reach the project's goal because these activities are child victim focused and have been proven to lessen the trauma caused by abuse and neglect, while taking strides to identify other possible victims who need our help. The system that will be used to track and verify the project outputs has three steps: 1). An initial client in-take form will be completed for each child, that will include all demogaphical information and child/family history. 2). The information will be in-put and tracked in a proprietary software database. 3). On a monthly and quarterly basis, management and appropriate board members will review and assess the project's progess towards meeting it's goals and make needed adjustments and accommodations. Whatever information that is not captured by the databases, a tracking form will be utilized so that direct service providers funded by this project will know when project activities are being conducted and what is left to be done in correlation to meeting the project's goal. Quality control testing is conducted when formal quarterly reports are submitted by the programs to, Texas CASA and Children's Advocacy Center's Inc., a neutral-third party for formal review. A system to measure the project's outcomes includes four steps: 1) the utilization of a pre-service client questionnaire to assess the level of trauma and crisis experienced by the victim at the time of in-take. ha ~~UU~~