The aims
and purposes of CAPSAC
are as follows:
•
To encourage and promote multidisciplinary professional education on topics of
relevance to the problem of child abuse and neglect;
•To
promote improved standards for the prevention, identification, intervention and
treatment of child abuse and neglect;
•To
promote accurate, effective, appropriate identification, intervention and
treatment of abused and neglected children, their families, adults abused as
children, and offending individuals;
•To
promote forums and other mechanisms for the exchange of information among
professionals working within the fields of child abuse and neglect prevention,
identification, intervention, treatment and research;
•To
promote research on the problem of child abuse and neglect, particularly in the
areas of prevention, identification, intervention and treatment;
•To
serve as a representational forum within which the needs and concerns of
professionals from various disciplines address the problem of child abuse and
neglect so they can be articulated at the state and national level; and
•To
promote the effectiveness and well-being of professionals working with abused
and neglected children, their families, adults abused as children, and
perpetrators.
California Professional Society on the Abuse of Children