Sentences with phrase «abuse prevention efforts»

Current child abuse prevention efforts often focus on younger children, but our results suggest that adolescents are also vulnerable to abuse victimisation (with 32.3 % of the adolescents in this sample experiencing at least one type of frequent abuse victimisation).

Speak Up Be Safe: The Role of Community - Based Organizations in Protecting Children (PDF - 555 KB) Monique Burr Foundation for Children (2011) Provides recommendations for strategies that can be used by community - based organizations to support the child abuse prevention efforts of schools and to reinforce the messages of the Speak Up Be Safe program in the community.

The Yolo Family Strengthening Network / Child Abuse Prevention (YFSN / CAP) Committee integrates family strengthening and child abuse prevention efforts.

From Safe Sanctuaries to Strong Communities: The Role of Communities of Faith in Child Protection Melton & Anderson Family and Community Health, 31 (2), 2008 View Abstract Discusses the potential contributions of faith communities to child abuse prevention efforts, examines the role of religiosity as a protective factor, and describes two community initiatives that are engaging churches in child abuse prevention.

Wear Blue Day - Friday, April 6th 2018 Illuminate Colorado is participating in Wear Blue 2018, a day dedicated to celebrating child abuse prevention efforts across the country.

Substance abuse prevention efforts have improved greatly during the past decade.

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COMBAT heroin, opioid and substance abuse crisis with more funding at local and county level for proven prevention programs, education efforts for teens, parents and school and medical professionals.

The contributions will benefit such things as services and education regarding obesity, mental health, STDs, bullying, pregnancy prevention and drug abuse, and efforts to keep students in school and seniors in their homes.

In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of Education, Hajiya Rafa'atu Hammani, said the state was ready to support efforts at curbing drug abuse among students and stressed that all school principals would be properly trained on prevention measures.

«We hope our research will bring attention to the need for increased prevention efforts for child sexual abuse.»

... Therefore, prevention efforts targeting child abuse exposure or mediators in the relationship between child abuse exposure and suicide - related outcomes may help reduce suicide - related outcomes,» the study concludes.

The new data might help inform efforts to curb substance abuse among young adults, «so that we can better target prevention programming to young adults from all walks of life with vital information on substance use disorder prevention and treatment,» Harding said in a SAMHSA news release.

In particular, Jed offers a wide variety of programming, including The Jed Campus Program, a nationwide initiative designed to empower schools with a framework and customized support to enhance student mental health and help with substance abuse and suicide prevention efforts, and Set to Go, a program to emotionally prepare high schools students for impending transition.

She also advised numerous Catholic dioceses and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in their efforts to implement research - based sexual abuse prevention programs in order to establish safe environments for children in their care.

She has advised numerous Catholic dioceses and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in their efforts to implement research - based sexual abuse prevention programs in order to establish safe environments for children in their care.

Be part of a national effort to support parent involvement and leadership in all family support and child abuse prevention programs.

Joint efforts should focus on prevention, training workers to recognize both types of problems, improving assessment and referral procedures, providing access to appropriate treatment programs, encouraging clients to stay in substance abuse treatment, expediting permanency decisions, supporting recovery after discharge from treatment, and advocating for a more comprehensive service system.

Their collaborative efforts and input focused on preventing child abuse and promoting healthy families were instrumental in creating the prevention Resource Guide.

Traditional prevention efforts have focused almost exclusively on identifying the so - called risk factors in a child's life (poverty, abuse, and community violence, for example) and then attempting to provide services that would eliminate or mitigate those conditions.

Under House Bill 19, the Texas 84th Legislature tasked the Texas Department of Family Protective Services to develop and implement a prevention program to support Texas military and veteran families in an effort to prevent child abuse and neglect.

The same year, OCAN released its Emerging Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect report, the product of a 2 - year effort to generate new information about effective and innovative prevention programs.

Reviews the current literature on the epidemiology of fatal child abuse, the role of child death investigations in ascertaining the causes of death, the causes of child abuse fatalities, and current prevention efforts.

Preserving Childhood: Oregon's Leading Efforts to Prevent Child Abuse and Strengthen Families (PDF - 917 KB) Children's Trust Fund of Oregon Foundation & Prevent Child Abuse Oregon 2013) Highlights 12 nationally recognized prevention programs and parenting curricula currently being implemented throughout Oregon.

This encouraged communities to join the effort to promote healthy families and work collaboratively to provide responsive child abuse prevention and family support services.

Public health efforts aimed at prevention of early childhood sexual and physical abuse, in particular, may have a significant impact on reducing suicidality over the life course and improving mental health outcomes.

In the 2006 publication Ending violence and abuse in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities, HREOC noted that efforts to redress problems concerning alcohol from the side of reducing «supply» could only be regarded as a situational crime prevention technique, rather than an underlying crime prevention technique.

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Daro has over 40 years of experience in evaluating child - abuse treatment and prevention programs and child - welfare reform efforts, and her program assessments blend quantitative and qualitative components, resulting in findings that have both statistical and program relevance.

SafePath offers training and prevention education to private, public, and community partners in an effort to increase the number of parents, community members and professionals educated about child abuse topics.

She has worked closely with the city of Portland, and state and federal officials to end homelessness and increase funding for early childhood education, after - school and mentoring efforts and child abuse prevention.

The Global status report on violence prevention 2014, which reflects data from 133 countries, is the first report of its kind to assess national efforts to address interpersonal violence, namely child maltreatment, youth violence, intimate partner and sexual violence, and elder abuse.

The most cost - effective policies that reduce child sexual abuse are prevention efforts, and the most effective prevention efforts occur when children receive a school - based prevention program in conjunction with the involvement of a caring adult.

At Children's Trust Fund of Oregon, we foster healthy child development and support efforts to protect children in Oregon through strategic investments in local, proven or evidence - based child abuse prevention programs.

At the Children's Trust Fund of Oregon, we foster healthy child development and support efforts to protect children in Oregon through strategic investments in local, proven or evidence - based child abuse prevention programs.

Research on the risk - factors that lead to abuse and neglect, as well as on the success rate of prevention programs, informs all of our efforts.

The mission of the Children's Trust Fund of Oregon Foundation (CTFO) is to foster healthy child development and to support efforts to protect children in Oregon through strategic investments in local, proven or evidence - based child abuse prevention programs.

The Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) is the federal agency within the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that leads national efforts to improve prevention and mental health treatment services for all Americans.

The FRIENDS National Resource Center for Community - Based Child Abuse Prevention has developed an Evaluation Toolkit to help prevention programs in their evaluation efforts.

Discusses the importance of prevention as a critical component of the nation's child protection system and examines the history of child abuse prevention, the scope of the problem today, ways in which quality programs are identified and implemented, promising prevention strategies, and issues for future prevention efforts.

This year's updates include additional resources for teachers and school - based professionals and a new section to support the efforts of pregnancy prevention advocates and adolescent sexual health practitioners in addressing adolescent relationship abuse.

By spotlighting evidence for the effectiveness of interventions, Violence prevention: the evidence provides clear directions for how violence prevention funders, policy makers and programme implementers can boost the impact of their violence prevention efforts, and by extension contribute to drug abuse prevention.