| Hispanic
Committee of Virginia |
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| To enable Hispanic
immigrants to more fully participate in and contribute to American Society.
Contact:
5827 Columbia Pike Suite 200
Falls Church, VA 22041
Tel.
703.671.5666
http://www.hispaniccommitteeofvirginia.org/
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| Safe
Kids |
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Virginia SAFE KIDS
Coalition is part of the National SAFE KIDS Campaign-the first and only national
organization dedicated solely to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury,
which is the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
Virginia
is served by 8 local SAFE KIDS coalitions and 1 local SAFE KIDS chapter. These
organizations promote unintentional injury prevention by focusing education on
bike, helmet, and water safety, child passenger safety seats, poisoning, and other
risk areas. Education is provided at health and safety fairs, bike rodeos, and
child safety seat checks held in Virginia communities.
Contact:
Corri
Miller-Hobbs
Virginia SAFE KIDS Coordinator
Virginia Commonwealth University
Health System
P.O. Box 985917
Richmond, VA 23298-5917
PH (804) 628-2077
Email: comille@hsc.vcu.edu
www.safekids.org
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| Cops
& Docs |
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| Multi-disciplinary
partnership between VCU/MCV and the Richmond Police. Colleen is now housed at
the Police Dept. ER doctors and surgeons ride with police at night on calls to
better understand the family and neighborhood settings of their intentional injury
patients. Police spend time in the ER to better understand the doctors' perspective.
Has an advisory/workgroup that includes attorneys, first responders, doctors,
police and others. Part of this effort was Operation Sports Fan where Dr. McCue
and colleagues went with police to homicide and other crime scenes to observe
the children present. They counted the number of children and described the behaviors
they saw, with parents treating the crime scene like a carnival - bringing their
kids out in the middle of night with food, etc. Not sure what exactly is happening
with this now.
Contact:
Dr. Colleen McCue
804-646-4099 |
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Youth Matters |
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| Funded
by Robert Wood Johnson to do violence prevention but strategy is to get kids reading
by 3rd grade. Part of Chamber of Commerce. Works in Henrico, Richmond and Chesterfield.
The Action Alliance and Youth Matters are collaborating on a new project: the
Early Care and Education Partnership. This is going to be a public/private partnership
that looks at issues surrounding early care and education in Richmond. One of
the committees will be focusing on environmental factors - don't know its exact
focus yet, but it could have to do with children's early exposure to violence.
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Developmental Assets/Search Institute |
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The Search
Institute has done research on youth and come up with 40 developmental assets
that are important for children to grow into successful, well-adjusted adults.
Few kids will have all 40, but the idea is to focus on the positive and the more
a kid has, the better. Kind of like protective factors. When a community adopts
this approach, a needs assessment is done first. Then, the community works on
building the assets they lag behind in. The City of Hampton has adopted this approach
(it's not a program, but something that can be integrated into an organization
or a whole locality), and the Commission on Youth is supporting several pilot
sites as well: Norfolk, Fluvanna, Tazewell.
Contact:
Cindy Carlson, Hampton
Coalition for Youth
757-727-1380
ccarlson@city.hampton.va.us
Or Mike Canty
In-SYNC Partnership
757-728-2078
www.searchinstitute.org
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Male Responsibility Program |
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This outreach
program for males ages 10 to 35 promotes positive attitudes, goal setting, family
development and accountability in young men, fathers and future fathers. The Male
Responsibility Program serves young men who may not have grown up with a strong
father figure in the home.
Contact:
Donna Smith
804-646-7462 |
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EMSC (The Emergency Medical Services for Children) |
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EMSC program is designed
to reduce child and youth mortality and morbidity due to severe illness or injury.
It aims to ensure state-of-the-art emergency medical care for the ill or injured
child and adolescent; to ensure that pediatric services are well integrated into
an emergency medical services (EMS) system; and to ensure that the entire spectrum
of emergency services, including primary prevention of illness and injury, acute
care and rehabilitation are provided to children and adolescents.
Contact:
Emergency Medical Services for Children National Resource Center
111 Michigan
Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20010-2970
(202) 884-4927
www.ems-c.org
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Virginia EMS for Children Program
(Virginia Emergency Medical Service for
Children's Program) |
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Contact:
Petra
Menzel, MPH
P.O. Box 980107
Richmond, Virginia 23298-0107
804-628-EMSC
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