Sentences with phrase «teaches violence prevention»

Our free self - defense classes will teach violence prevention strategies to New Yorkers and will provide the community with the tools they need to stay safe.»

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The park will be the first «teaching garden» in Puebla and the city also plans to host a violence prevention program targeted towards children and youth.

Promotes socially responsible teaching in inclusive, safe, and healthy schools by providing money to assist teachers in developing and implementing violence - prevention, antiracist, multicultural, gender - equity, global, environmental, or peace resources, through the Ed May Social Responsibility Fund.

Choices & Consequences (C&C) is a game aimed at middle school children ages 11 to 14 and is designed to teach substance abuse and relationship violence prevention to them.

«Prison Yoga Project grew out of my experience with hundreds of prisoners — teaching yoga and mindfulness and as a staff facilitator of victim / offender education, violence prevention and emotional literacy.

The program's aim is to teach awareness of the skills needed to form respectful relationships and more specifically to challenge gender stereotypes that can lead to gender - based violence and disrespectful attitudes to women.The Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) states that, «Early interventions with children and young people can have a lasting effect on their relationships in the future... On the basis of current evidence, violence prevention and respectful relationships initiatives among young people can make a real difference, producing lasting change in attitudes and behaviours.»

The second is to educate individuals in the nature of cooperation and constructive conflict resolution through the use of cooperative learning (formal cooperative learning, informal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups), cooperative schools (cooperative teaching teams, school - based decision - making, cooperative faculty meeting), constructive controversy (academic controversy to increase quality of learning and decision controversy to increase quality of decision making), and peacemaking (problem - solving negotiations, peer mediation, violence prevention).

Healing Species is an 11 - week violence prevention and empathy nurturing program taught with the help of rescued dogs.

The Retreat's programs include a residential shelter for women and children, a 24 - hour domestic violence hotline, individual and group counseling, legal advocacy for all victims of domestic violence, programs to engage troubled fathers and other men who may be at - risk of committing family violence, and an in - school violence prevention education program taught in local area schools.

Provided special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs, and classes that taught students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence.

«We found that many teachers would like more information and training, particularly on violence prevention and contraceptive use, as well as on teaching methods,» says Melissa Stillman, research associate at the Guttmacher Institute and a coauthor of the study.

Because of the similarities among Active Parenting programs — they are derived from the same original program (The Active Parenting Discussion Program, Popkin, 1983), use the same theoretical model, teach similar parenting skills, include specific TAOD, sexuality, and violence prevention information and training, and use a six - session video - based delivery system — research results showing evidence of effectiveness with one of the programs lends support for the other programs as well.

Because of the similarities among Active Parenting programsthey are derived from the same original program (The Active Parenting Discussion Program, Popkin, 1983), use the same theoretical model, teach similar parenting skills, include specific ATOD, sexuality, and violence prevention information and training, and use a six - session video - based delivery systemresearch results showing evidence of effectiveness with one of the programs lends support for the other programs as well.

The Second Step program had been taught in K — 6 classrooms since 2006 as a violence prevention program, complying with Safe and Drug Free Schools to promote a positive school climate.