Sentences with phrase «violence prevention efforts»

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.

Jointly published by WHO, the United Nations Development Programme, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the report reviews the current status of violence prevention efforts in countries, and calls for a scaling up of violence prevention programmes; stronger legislation and enforcement of laws relevant for violence prevention; and enhanced services for victims of violence.

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

Co-lead in training 50 counselors responsible for implementing nation - wide secondary violence prevention efforts

Key personnel in national violence prevention efforts funded by U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

«Governors Cuomo, Malloy, Murphy, and Raimondo deserve great credit for this innovative, first - in - the - nation regional gun violence prevention effort.

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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.

Fourth, they must strengthen the role of health, security, education, justice, and other relevant sectors by creating and implementing policies for prevention and response across these sectors, and integrating violence prevention and response into training efforts.

Additionally, the researchers encouraged schools to include dating violence prevention as part of efforts to improve school safety climates.

«If sexual assault prevention efforts solely focus on heterosexual violence, they may invalidate sexual - and gender - minority people's assault experiences and be ineffective for them,» said Coulter.

Education's role in challenging gender and social norms around violence are a cornerstone of any prevention efforts.

Wide Scope, Questionable Quality: Three Reports from the Study on School Violence and Prevention (2000) investigates the extent of problem behavior in schools nationally and several aspects of delinquency prevention efforts in schools, such as the types and quality of prevention efforts, how schools plan and use information about prevention options to improve their own efforts and school management, and sources of funding for school prevention activities.

Findings will provide direction for school violence prevention and intervention efforts, with the greater goal of enhancing the effectiveness of educator support and school protection policies.

In fact, Maria Ttofi and David Farrington (both from the University of Cambridge) conducted a more sophisticated analysis of forty - four bullying prevention efforts (excluding programs that targeted violence or aggression generally) and uncovered some promising evidence: ``... school - based anti-bullying programs are effective: on average, bullying decreased by 20 — 23 % and victimization decreased by 17 — 20 %.»

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.

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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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 IPV Prevention Council envisions a future in which a wide network of collaborative and sustained primary prevention efforts lead to the social change necessary to end intimate partner violence.

Findings were discussed regarding the need to identify developmental precursors of dating violence in early adolescence and to focus prevention efforts on components (e.g., social skills, coping strategies) necessary to prevent the onset and escalation of adolescent dating violence.