Sentences with phrase «community prevention efforts»

It outlines programs and strategies that are proving beneficial in reducing the likelihood of child maltreatment, such as public awareness efforts, parent education, home visitation, and community prevention efforts.

Next, she describes prevention strategies that are prominent today (such as public awareness efforts, parent education, home visitation, community prevention efforts) and what makes these strategies successful.

Sokoto State Executive Council has approved a draft law that will enhance community prevention efforts in tackling crimes across the state.

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The new effort aims to stop the Hepatitis C virus in its tracks by increasing access to medications that can cure Hepatitis C and expanding programs to connect New Yorkers in high - risk communities with wrap - around Hepatitis C prevention, screenings and treatment services.

«Losing Navarro at this critical time will hamper the countless efforts to reduce crime, lose momentum in implementing strategic crime prevention initiatives and damage already repaired police - community relations,» reads a letter sent to the department from dozens of community residents.

«Informing policy makers and other key stakeholders can improve things, as can screening, prevention and management efforts that are targeted to meet the needs of the various communities hardest hit.»

«This data provides potential leverage points for both community - level interventions and advocacy for this population, particularly related to transactional sex and education, and will aid HIV prevention efforts that seek to address the contextual constraints on individual risk behavior,» said Stevens.

Health - care providers can send a powerful message — that violence is not only a social problem, but a dangerous, unhealthy, and harmful practice — and they can champion prevention efforts in the community.

To help the organization better address incidents involving weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the FBI created the WMD Directorate, whose mission is to coordinate the FBI's WMD efforts through several programs — including investigative operations, intelligence analysis, policy planning, strategic planning, and outreach to the scientific community — that address a number of issues involved in prevention and response to WMD incidents.

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health's Project Accept — a trial conducted by the HIV Prevention Trials Network to test a combination of social, behavioral and structural HIV - prevention interventions — demonstrated that a series of community efforts boosted the number of people tested for HIV and resulted in a 14 percent reduction in new HIV infections, compared with control communities.

This is particularly encouraging, as there remains great potential within the research community to identify modifiable aspects of the environment that can then serve as the focus of applied prevention / intervention efforts.»

But Hopkins, UMMC and their corporate parents, whose four main Baltimore hospitals together collect some $ 5 billion in revenue a year, have so far limited their community asthma prevention to small, often temporary efforts, often financed by somebody else's money.

During the evening, the team highlighted the GM's work to support communities across the Sahel in climate resilient development, as part of the Great Green Wall initiative and its efforts to scale up the Great Green Wall Initiative, to jointly «Grow a World Wonder», since the Great Green Wall is part of the solution to many global challenges, including food security, conflict prevention and environmental migration.

Program: Ed.M., Human Development Research Areas: Life courses from pregnancy through childhood, adolescence, early adulthood, and mid-life; the influence of reproductive transitions on life course trajectories; class, race, and ethnic disparities in education and health and designing interventions to reduce these disparities; prevention efforts targeting parenting, schooling, community, housing, and work - family balance.

In order to address and tackle the problem different suicide prevention efforts have been implemented by different stakeholders: governments, academic institutions, NGOs; realizing the importance of the community support.

Once you're ready to expand your efforts, there are many ways to get the community involved in the school's bullying prevention efforts.

For example, if students report that they feel unsafe and bullied in school, school communities can use this information as a wonderful springboard for discussion and planning to support effective bully prevention efforts.

Communicating anti-bullying policies and bullying prevention efforts to the school community

Participating in National Bullying Prevention Month provides a great way for schools to reenergize ongoing bullying prevention efforts and to engage the whole school community.

It provides a comprehensive framework to help communities design local dropout prevention efforts as well as 16 downloadable tools that communities can use immediately.

With local data, schools can inform parents and mobilize community obesity prevention efforts.

Joanna Fox of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University reviews research related to community partnerships that support keeping students in school and on track to graduation, provided snapshots of community and non-profit organizations dropout prevention efforts, and shares success stories of a few schools and districts — Dothan City Schools, Alabama; Harris County Schools in Houston, Texas; and New York City Schools.

This effort, supported by funding from the van Beuren Charitable Foundation, is allowing the community to use data to identify where problems are and use a three - tiered approach to provide universal chronic absence prevention for all students, more intensive supports for at - risk students, and personalized, targeted supports for the highest risk students.

Every year schools and communities across the country unite in their bullying prevention efforts during the month of October for National Bullying Prevention Month.

Prior to joining Special Olympics, Shriver was the Supervisor of the New Haven, Connecticut, Public Schools» Social Development Project, a comprehensive, K - 12, primary prevention effort involving students, parents, teachers, administrators, community leaders, and scholars.

The training will also focus on practical tools and strategies to engage parents and community partners in bullying prevention efforts.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today that it is issuing $ 2,488,497 in grants to state entities, local communities, and non-profit organizations to address pipeline safety challenges related to damage prevention and to promote more involvement in local pipeline safety initiatives and awareness efforts.

We focus our efforts on prevention, intervention, treatment, and community outreach.

Fund more prevention research, seek more partnerships and extend our reach of programs and services in more communities and to more individuals in an effort to increase the survival rate to 80 %

The Foundation is an independent 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization providing support for efforts that enhance police / community relations, crime prevention and public safety through grant funding for specialized equipment, training, and cooperative community programs.

True prevention efforts require us to be out in the community, engaging with people and organizations of parallel and competing interests, vaccinating and sterilizing every cat we can reach in a targeted, strategic and effective manner.

Bridgett is correct, it has to be a community effort, prevention (spay / neuter), enforcement and management of a TNR program.

Coordinate educational efforts on new prevention efforts to public professionals, including primary care providers, non-clinical providers, health organizations and associations, and community based agencies in all municipalities and high - incidence jurisdictions.

Community - oriented public servant deeply committed to protecting lives, citizens and property through rapid emergency response, diligent crime - prevention efforts and high - visibility public safety initiatives.

The Closing the Gap framework commits to reducing this disadvantage, with cross-government-sector initiatives and investment, reflecting the need to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of the Aboriginal community.1 Activity in the primary health care sector, with its focus on prevention, early intervention and coordination of care complements these efforts to build healthier communities.

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.

Central to efforts to build healthier communities is the Aboriginal community controlled health service (ACCHS) sector; its focus on prevention, early intervention and comprehensive care has reduced barriers to access and unintentional racism, progressively improving individual health outcomes for Aboriginal people.

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 prCommunity 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 prcommunity initiatives that are engaging churches in child abuse prevention.

Highlights prevention efforts of the Sitka Safe Start Initiative, a collaboration between the Sitka Tribe of Alaska and community - based agencies.

METHODS: Recommendations from the special issue were categorized and discussed in relation to the Social - Ecological Model and the... prevention efforts targeting individuals, relationships, communities, and society.

This suggests that communities may be able to act as protective factors by supporting violence prevention efforts.

These community teams implement one family and one school evidence - based program that they select from a menu and are supported throughout their programming effort by program area specialists and evaluation experts from their university's Extension System, and prevention scientists and PROSPER implementation coaches from Iowa State University.

Furthermore, it contributes little to efforts to meet some of the most pressing challenges facing our health system — poor access to dental services and mental health care for many in the community and the prevention and ongoing management of chronic disease.

In particular, population - level studies that capture children's developmental health and well - being as well as associated social and contextual assets from the child perspective, and at representative population levels do not exist — despite the fact that middle childhood represents a developmental period that is particularly apt for prevention and intervention efforts that target actionable factors in children's multiple environments: social relationships at home, school and community; sleep and nutrition habits; school experiences; and after - school time use.

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

Other types of prevention programs may be necessary to reduce more normative types of disruptive behavior among young adolescents.32 In light of the impact of this program on maternal and youth crime and corresponding government expenditures, 8,33 the US Department of Justice is now supporting an effort to make this program available to a larger number of high - crime communities.34

Similarly, ongoing efforts to «unlearn» unhealthy lifestyles and to treat noncommunicable diseases are warranted, 63 but so are efforts to improve the capacity of caregivers and communities to encourage and proactively build the rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills that allow for the adoption of healthy, adaptive coping skills.18, 20,66,67 Ultimately the prevention of all childhood adversity is an unrealistic objective and, to a certain extent, an undesirable one.

Partnering For Prevention (PDF - 2,447 KB) Grayson (2012) Virginia Child Protection Newsletter, 94 Virginia Department of Social Services & James Madison University Department of Psychology Examines child maltreatment prevention through the lens of community partners in prevention and specifically explores the role of the media, charitable foundations, and other business partners in financing and promoting prevention efforts.

OJJDP accomplishes this by supporting States and local communities in their efforts to develop and implement effective and coordinated prevention and intervention programs and to improve the juvenile justice system so that it maintains public safety, holds offenders accountable, and provides treatment and rehabilitation tailored to the needs of families and individuals.

They describe Australia's «recalcitrance» and «underwhelming» efforts, compared with progress made by comparable countries such as NZ, the USA and Canada, which had introduced legislation or policy initiatives to facilitate effective, culturally sensitive crime prevention with Indigenous communities at the forefront of decision - making.