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Ogden-area child interview center highlights trauma-informed design, school partnership
Summary
Speakers described a newly outfitted child interview/advocacy center that uses color, plainclothes law enforcement and a multidisciplinary team to reduce trauma; district staff will serve as a regular liaison to the center’s weekly meetings.
A newly outfitted child interview center that partners with Ogden-area agencies is designed to reduce trauma for children who undergo forensic interviews and medical exams, speakers said during the Ogden City School District work session.
The center’s organizers said they designed the space to be bright, colorful and welcoming so children remember calming details rather than the interview itself. "They remembered coloring something. They remembered a little table and some little chairs," a center representative said. "We did...to make it inviting, make it full of light, make it colorful." The representative added that survivors who were interviewed as children later recalled the colors in the room decades later.
Board members and district staff described a multidisciplinary team (MDT) model that brings child protective…
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