Poster Presentation
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
A Collaborative Community-Based Effort to Assist Children, Youth, and Families Living in Volatile Homes or Communities: The Safer Tomorrows Project Research Team, Partners, Volunteers, and Collaborating Agencies
Clarissa A. Shavers, DNSc, RNC, College of Nursing, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
| Learning Objective #1: Describe the specific aims, goals, and objectives of this community-based out-of-school time structured multi-phase and multi-level randomized clinical trial intervention. |
| Learning Objective #2: Discuss policy/program recommendations for individuals who have self-reported actual, previous or past, or who are at-risk for exposure to violence and trauma. |
Children, adolescents, and families living in volatile homes or communities have a unique set of issues, needs, and concerns. Nurses and other health care providers, as well as interdisciplinary community-based professionals must address and attempt to effectively promote the healing and restoration of individuals, families, and communities who have self-reported actual, previous or past, and who are at-risk for exposure to violence and trauma. In many cases especially among these vulnerable populations there exist sharp disparities in access to health care and provision of multidisciplinary or inter-disciplinary community-based services and resources. There are relatively few empirical and rigorously evaluated interventions or programs designed for children and youth who have self-disclosed exposures to various forms of violence and trauma in the broader community. In responses to meeting the needs of these youth and their families, faculty members at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, have partnered with local, state, national, and international colleagues to develop a structured injury prevention, violence reduction and healthy conflict resolution intervention called The Safer Tomorrows Project.
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