TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - School violence prevention: the role of the women's community
JO  - Journal of school violence
A1  - Tite, R.
SP  - 85
EP  - 104
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
N2  - School violence has many faces and many casualties. In varying degrees it touches students, parents, educators and communities of every school world wide. At the local level, communities are seen as playing a significant role in violence prevention. Generally, communitybased violence prevention approaches involve the assessment of local problems, identification of target issues, selection of a range of interventions, and the encouragement of collaboration among civic groups, the juvenile justice system, local leaders, and young people themselves. These programs are generally judged as successful if they are able to address risk factors effectively for individual youths, strengthen those factors that provide protection and enhance resiliency, provide sufficient support and effective supervision, and increase pro-social attitudes by providing youth with a sense of having an increased stake in their local communities. Although too few educators are aware of its impact, the women's community has been involved in this work for decades. In this paper I discuss the results of interviews with members of the women's community in Atlantic Canada who have developed proactive violence prevention initiatives. I will concentrate on their efforts to bring those programs into the schools and their experiences of the successes and challenges they encounter.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1538-8220
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J202v04n04_06
ID  - ref1
ER  -