Children exposed to violence
School Crisis Response Initiative
Through Our Eyes: Interventions in Schools
Exposure to violence can impede a child's ability to learn and thrive in school. Teachers, coaches, and other school staff and volunteers can play a critical role in recognizing and reporting signs of violence and trauma in a child's life. This video identifies some types of violence that children may experience at school or on their way to or from school, and highlights preventative measures that some schools are taking to protect their students.
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Through Our Eyes: Addressing Violence in the Home
The physical, psychological, and emotional consequences for children exposed to violence in their homes can be especially severe. Early intervention is critical to help these children heal. This video features three programs that are working to provide a coordinated, comprehensive response to these victims and their families.
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Through Our Eyes: Community-Based Approaches
This video discusses the important role that community- and faith-based programs, services, and agencies play in protecting and responding to children. It features three programs that exemplify a successful community-based approach to children affected by violence and trauma. However, because every community is different, it is important that service providers and allied professionals tailor their responses to most effectively meet their community's particular needs.
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Child and Youth Victimization
Childhood exposure to violence, crime, and abuse can lead to serious consequences for the health and well-being of children that can last long into adulthood.
Understanding the nature and extent of a child’s exposure to violence is essential in combating its effects. Research shows that early identification, intervention, and continued follow up are valuable strategies for preventing and decreasing the potential negative effects of a...
Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Guiding Principles
Enhancing Police Responses to Children Exposed to Violence: A Toolkit for Law Enforcement
Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Fact Sheet
Virginia's Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth - Implementation Stage 2
Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth in Montana
Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project
Virginia's Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth - Implementation Stage 1
Vision 21: Linking Montana's Systems of Care for Children and Youth
Phase II Vision 21: Linking System of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project
Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma DVD
Attorney General's Advisory Committee on American Indian/Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence: Ending Violence So Children Can Thrive
The Montana Systems of Care members will expand their scope to include an agreed-upon victimization screening tool that will be applied across agencies to screen children earlier and consistently.
Virginia''s Vision 21: Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth
Linking Systems of Care for Children and Youth Technical Assistance Project
Children's Exposure to Violence and the Intersection Between Delinquency and Victimization
Report of the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence
Through Our Eyes: Children, Violence, and Trauma
Enhanced Services to Children and Youth Exposed to Violence
This site provides promising practices and lessons learned from Administration for Children and Families' grantee demonstration projects on children and youth exposed to violence.