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Products -- Safe from the Start Brochures
The following documents are available in PDF (Portable Document Formats)
or you may request a copy of the printed material by completing our order materials form. These documents can then be printed out and used as camera ready
masters to print multiple copies. To open PDF files, download the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader.
This tri-fold brochure can be distributed
to law enforcement, educators, health care and social service professionals,
mental health providers and community members. The brochure not only informs
readers about the California Safe from the Start efforts, but also provides
valuable resource information on how they can get involved in reducing the
impact of violence on children. The brochure is available for immediate
use in this section of our web site, or can be requested by California organizations
through the California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention
Center. Simply fax your request on letterhead to (916) 327-2384.
The Promising Strategies and Programs Resource Guide identifies general
strategies or approaches designed to prevent children's exposure to violence,
and to mitigate the damage suffered by those who are exposed. The common
and indispensable aspect of each strategy is the absolute requirement of
partnership. If all relevant community organizations do not collaborate
in the effort, if they do not overcome the human tendency to wage turf battles,
resurrect old slights, and misunderstand those with other perspectives,
then that community should not expect to succeed.
Second, the guide offers thumbnail sketches of programs that specifically
address children's exposure to violence. It was our hope to describe only
programs that have been proven to be effective according to objective,
scientific evaluations. However, the medical research in this area is so
new that social science has not yet had sufficient time to authoritatively
evaluate such programs. Accordingly, this guide describes programs that
researchers, experienced practitioners, and informal evaluations describe
as genuinely "promising".
Finally, this guide presents information on basic evaluation tools and funding
resources. The need for information about funding is obvious. The need for
information about evaluation may not be as evident. In the past, programs
may have invested few resources in evaluation, because of its great expense
and difficulty. But now, virtually all funders, public and private, require
recipients of financial support to evaluate their programs, and some expect
increasingly sophisticated evaluations. This guide sets forth fundamentals
on funding and evaluation, and we expect to offer more detailed presentations
on these subjects in the near future.
The California Attorney General's Office conducted Safe from the Start regional
forums. Participants were encouraged to attend the forums in multi-disciplinary,
multi-jurisdictional teams. Between September 19 and December 12, 2000,
more than 1400 leaders from around the state participated in one of nine
Safe from the Start Regional Forums. These leaders came from 54 of California's
58 counties, and included local law enforcement officers, educators and
health and social services professionals. A tenth Forum for leaders from
the four counties that were not able to attend took place September 28,
2001.
During the first part of each forum, participants heard from local, state
and national experts about the latest research on children's exposure to
violence, and about promising strategies in prevention and intervention.
During the second part, participants worked within their teams to address
the following four key questions and build a framework for future collaborative
efforts:
What is your community doing now for children exposed to violence?
What else would you like to do?
(e.g., what gaps in services would you like to fill based on what you
have learned today?)
How can the state assist you?
What are your next steps?
All teams then reported their answers back to the entire group. It is this
input that formed the foundation for the Policy Recommendations from the
Statewide Regional Forums.
A 34 page workbook that outlines a planning process that can be used by community
groups to develop or strengthen local plans to reduce children's exposure
to violence. The workbook is designed primarily for use by collaborative,
community based, multi-disciplinary groups, although individual agencies
will find it helpful.
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