Violence Prevention Programs in Health Zone 1

Whether in the Black community, or any community, we know that there are some factors that correlate with a lower rate of violence. Two of the leading ones are: economic stability and strong social networks. Communities in which people have their basic needs met correlate with a lower incidence of violence. Both of these will be difficult to achieve until racism is addressed (see reason number

The 1980s and early 90s were home to an extreme wave of criminal activity that swept across much of the country. The dramatic uptick in crime can largely be attributed to the spread of the crack-cocaine epidemic and subsequent “War on Drugs.” New York City, for example, suffered from 2,605 murders and 208,813 burglaries in 1990, at the height of the violence . Much of this criminal activity centered around and affected the poorest individuals in those communities – which often included minorities.

Universal school-based violence prevention programs represent an important means of reducing violent and aggressive behavior as found by Hahn et al (2007) in their study about the United States. The findings by Durlak et al (2011) from a meta-analysis of school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving pupils from kindergarten through high school, have also added to the growing empirical evidence regarding the positive impact of SEL programs on improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, and behavior.

City Heights East is divided by many different ethnicities. There is 54.3% Hispanic, 20.9% Asian, 15% Black, 7.3% White, 2.2% mixed, and 0.3% other. With this data we can see that there is is range of different ethnicities and not one fully overrides other. This is a diverse community with some great cultures throughout. With this comes crime. With a total of about 30 assaults in the past year, there needs to be a sense of community rather than a sense of territory. Within this sections it will review the cost of living, the employment rates, the school’s, and the community organization. These are all important when looking at a specific crime and how to improve it within the community.

Living in low-income and impoverished neighborhoods with little upward mobility and the way African American teens are treated and seen as in society are also major factors in the growing violence in predominantly black schools. Preventing violence in black teens begins with changing the environmental factors that affect African American adolescent males. Also, by providing support from the home, classroom, and community, the effects of the socioeconomic and social disadvantages will begin to decrease.

The starting point of violence takes place in communities and at home--not at school. Youth take what they hear and see at home and in their communities to school. The environment in some communities and households are positive and the presences of protective factors outweigh the high risk factors. However, there are communities and households where there is a lack of informal social control and high risk factors exist more than protective factors--, which affect youth in a negative manner.

Before I get into the strategies put in place to reduce gun violence, I want to touch on the things that contribute to gun violence in New Haven. According to the “Selected Strategies for Community Gun Violence Prevention” report, violent crimes contribute to and are exacerbated by economic disadvantage (City-Wide). The main area in New Haven where gun violence occurs is in areas of low-income and poverty and the gun violence are being executed by the youth ages 15-24. In this day and age, we are living in a society where your income level determines your life expectancy, whether it is homicide, suicide or another form of violent activity. Living in New Haven and experiencing this first hand, I was able to see how the power and the struggle of poverty, low-income, gang wars and even drug activity can exacerbate gun violence. New Haven has as many as 2,500 people who are in gangs. These gangs lie in six neighborhoods in New Haven. The gangs being, The Ville, The Tre, The Tribe, The Jungle, The Island and The Hill hold responsibility

This basis of legitimacy is partly due to shared factors contextualized by authorities and institutions that play a critical role in identifying risk factors linked to youth offending. Part of this involves linking violence, with sociological constructs (e.g., personality characteristics, neighbourhood characteristics, immigrant concentration). For instance, Papachristos, Meares, & Fagan (2012) propose that young people from neighborhoods saturated with criminal associates and opportunities for gang-related activities and drug trafficking, more likely to become young offenders. The perceived legitimacy of the risk factors, in turn, increases public compliance with legal authorities—the belief that behavior of young people needs to come into line with societal norms, values, and rules. As a consequence, police supported by the public, legitimately use heir authority to indiscriminately target civilians to fight crime and disorder in the community.

Poverty is regarded by many as one of the key orchestrators of violence and particularly among African-Americans. Together with racism, these factors are cited

Program planning is the implementation of evaluation process. It is the groundwork where priorities are decided and the results are analyzed on a measurable scale.

The nurse can educate Bob and Peggy that because Teresa as an adolescent at greater risk for being a victim of violence. That factors that contribute to violence amongst adolescent include things such as low socioeconomic status, limited print supervision, single parent families, both parents in the workforce, access to guns or cars, drug or alcohol use, low self-esteem and peer groups.

According to Nies & McEwen, many of today’s health challenges are different from those of the past and include behaviors and risks linked to the leading causes of death such as heart disease, injuries, and cancer. In the suburb that I live in there has been no violence reported by students in the school system that my daughter is a fifth grade teacher. I think the locale of the school system can increase potential risk for violence. In the school system that my daughter is a teacher she says that they deal more with behavior problems and lack of parental involvement in the child’s progress. There are more students that are being treated with mental illness at such an early age. She had one child that was diagnoses as a bipolar. There have been several cases of child abuse that she has had to report. She feels a

This paper explores the relationship between low income and violent crime rate in Unite State over some period of time. This question is research is interested in how income inequality increases crime rate. Between 1975 to 2004 research shows that income earned by the top 5% of America families increased from 15.3% to 20.1%. Families that are at the bottom sees their earning dropped from 5.1% to 4.2%. Data used for this research is been collected from bureau of justice statistics (BJS) from national Crime and victimization survey (NCVS), which provide summary statistics based on a nationality representative sample for a wide range of crimes. Data is been collected from household that are below and above poverty level in the country and non-fall violent victimization, but

This system plays a key role in identifying the characteristics of violent incidents taking place in the ED. The reporting system exists for staff members to record and explain violent incidents that take place in the ED. These incidents range from threats to physical violence against staff members and other patients. The reports can be used to create the necessary policies and procedures and expose any weak links within the program foundation. The data can also be used to generate violence reports for the prevention program’s development, implementation, and evaluation efforts (Arnetz, Aranyos, Ager, & Upfal, 2011). For example, violence rates can help identify if the implemented interventions are decreasing WPV. Initially, an increase in WVP events will increase due to the staff’s growing awareness of violence and the consistent use of the reporting system. However, with full implementation of the WPVPP in place, the hope is that the rate will level off and then

Poor, urban youth’s exposure to community violence is widespread and prevalent. According to Ceballo, Dahl, Aretakis and Ramirez (2001), community violence exposure (CVE) encompasses both witnessing violence and being victimized by violence, such as home robbery, muggings, and being attacked with a knife. Ceballo et al. (2001) results indicate that a large proportion of elementary school children have experienced community violence. Out of 104 4th and 5th grade children, 32% have witness someone being stabbed, 52% have witnessed someone be wounded after a violent attack, and 44% reported being personally threatened with serious physical harm. In another study, 60% of 4,540 children that are under the age of 17 reported witnessing or being victimized by community violence at least once within the past year (Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, & Hamby, 2009). In the past year, children in this study experienced many forms of community violence, including physical assault (46.3%) and property victimization (24.6%). The interviews also revealed that 1 out of 10 of children said that the community violence they experienced resulted in a physical injury.