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an estimated 75 percent. When
it is completed in 1993. it will
offer classrooms, counseling
rooms, a kitchen, professional
training facilities and indoor
and outdoor play areas.
After it officially opens its
doors, the facility will likoly be
flooded by the growing number
of abusive families In Lano
County soeking help.
The Children Services Divi
sion office in Lano County is
scrambling to keep up with the
3.397 calls for assistance it has
received this year. That is a 21
percent jump in calls from this
time last year
Mike Lutz, who supervises
incoming requests for CSD as
sistance, said the increase in
demand for services has forcud
the agency to put some cases to
the side until its strained ro
sourc»s can catch up.
"We’re barely holding body
and soul together.” Lutz said.
‘‘It's like a battle zone, and
wo'ro doing triage overyday.
We re making decisions about
which cases of abuse con wait
until the next day."
CSD uses "intake screeners"
to sift through the requests for
service. If the situation appears
to lx; at a crisis point, social
workers will try to Intervene
immediately. In more serious
cases, CSD joins forces with po
lice to insure the child's safety.
Lane County Sheriff Bob Mc
Manus said police often get the
overflow when social service
agencies cannot get to all the
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"This is the bottom of the
bucket where everything col
lects," McManus said. "The po
lice departments are the dump
ing grounds for the rest of those
cases."
McManus, who also sits on
the Relief Nursery 's board of di
rectors. said police dopartmonts
are stuck in tho role of reacting
to child abuse after the fact.
Scarce resources limit tho abili
ty of law enforcement agencies
to got out on the front end of
tho problem with prevention
programs.
"The pro-active role of tho
sheriffs department went out
years ago," McManus said.
"Right now, we're lucky if wo
can field three officers in one
shift."
With few officers available to
investigate cases, the Lane
County Sheriff's Department
also must do triage work.
“With only five detectives,”
McManus said, "it puts us in
the precarious position of de
ciding which cases we should
handle.”
Every month the sheriffs de
partment gets about 90 case re
ferrals from CSD. Many are not
investigated.
"We maybe give 20 to patrol
officers and detectives," Mc
Manus said. "With tho other
70. tho perpetrators got away
with it, so they'll be back.”
The story is much the same
with the Eugene Public Safety
Department's Violent Crimes
Unit, which investigates crimes
ranging from sexual assaults to
homicides.
Sgt. Kick Cilllam. unit super
visor. said that child abuse
cases now account for almost
80 percent of tho unit's work
load. His department has
adopted the triage approach.
"Wo focus primarily on seri
ous injury cases," Gilliam said.
"We often get referrals where
the child is Doing slapped, and
normally they aren't being
looked into."
Gilliam said the problem
must be addressed by tho entire
community.
“You just don't hear much
about it," he said. "There's not
much of an outcry from the
public. Tho public has to bo
more concerned and take more
of a role in the solution."
Generating community
awareness is one of the goals of
tho new Relief Nursery facility
Phelps said having all of the
agency's servicos under one.
highly visible roof will bring
child abuse into the public eye.
"With this facility, child
abuse prevention will become
visible," she said. "It says that
this is one of the places where
we prevent child abuse.”
A fundraising campaign has
raised $700,000 from gifts,
grants and individual pledges
An additional $500,000 still
must be raised.