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First Steps: Taking Action Early To Prevent Violence
A joint project of the Prevention Institute, Action Alliance for Children, and Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, First Steps: Taking Action Early To Prevent Violence finds that
- Supporting healthy early childhood development
is essential in preventing violence. - Protecting children from experiencing violence
as victims or witnesses is essential to ensuring their healthy development. - Early approaches are cost-effective.
Includes recommendations for policy makers, funders, service providers, parents, and advocates:
- Provide services and supports for families
- Take steps to minimize the effects of poverty
- Prevent abuse, neglect, and witnessing of violence
- Increase wellness opportunities, including access to quality health care and mental health services for children and their families
- Reduce substance abuse among pregnant women and their partners
- Provide affordable, quality early childhood education and ensure that all children enter school ready to learn
- Reduce children's access to guns and time spent watching violent TV or playing violent video games.
Download the full report, user's guide, and resources at http://www.preventioninstitute.org/firststeps.html