Strategies for Action

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Strategies for Action

• Preventing and Responding to Violence and Abuse
  in Intimate and family relationships

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Prevention Strategies

• Primary Prevention
• Target the general population
• Secondary Prevention
• Target groups at high risk for family violence
  and abuse
• Tertiary Prevention
• target families who have experienced abuse

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Primary Prevention

• Create new norms, public education, media
  campaigns, focus on parent education
• Alternatives to corporal punishment?
• Positive role model
• Set rules and consequences
• Encourage and reward good behavior
• Create charts
• Give time outs
• Should corporal punishment be abolished?

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Secondary Prevention Strategies

• Do you think abuse is generational?
• Do you think the cycle can be broken?

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Tertiary Prevention

• National Domestic Violence Hotline
• http//www.ndvh.org/
• Shelters or Safe Houses
• Is there a difference?
• Child Protective Services
• http//www.dshs.wa.gov/
• Sheriff Department

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Weekend Assignment due on Monday October 8th

• Objective- You develop a strategy to prevent
  family violence and abuse.
• Requirements
• You must outline your program. Make sure you
  develop a program which is fiscally realistic and
  can be effectively managed. (You can model your
  program after a pre-existing program but you must
  have some components which are unique to yours.
• Justification of why your program would prevent
  family violence and abuse (you might include
  some statistics or studies which would support
  this)
• Which type of prevention strategy are you
  advocating? Primary, secondary or tertiary Yes
  you must prove it to me base on the definition.