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The center’s projects include community-based violence prevention projects, alternatives to incarceration, reentry initiatives, and court-based programs such as the Midtown Community Court [3] and Red Hook Community Justice Center as well as drug courts, [4] reentry courts, [5] domestic violence courts, [6] mental health courts [7] and others ...
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is a volunteer-run conflict transformation program. Teams of trained AVP facilitators conduct experiential workshops to develop participants' abilities to resolve conflicts without resorting to manipulation, coercion, or violence. Typically, each workshop lasts 18–20 hours over a two or three-day period.
The NNSC uses focused deterrence and problem-oriented policing strategies to identify a particular serious crime problem and design a strategy to respond to it. The National Network’s process recognizes that a small minority of individuals drive the majority of serious violence, therefore law enforcement needs to employ a similarly concentrated response.
Urban Resource Institute launched its URIPALS (People and Animals Living Safely) program in May 2013. [4] [5] URIPALS is the first program in New York and one of few in the United States that allows domestic violence survivors to live in a shelter apartment with their pets.
The bill was drafted to provide more funding and services for domestic violence shelters across the country, to change the way police departments and court systems handled domestic violence cases, to provide more training and intervention programs concerning domestic violence, and help support public education campaigns nationwide.
On October 28, 2010, the New York City Council held the first hearing ever on street harassment. [7] Council Member Julissa Ferreras, who chairs the Women's Issues Committee, called the hearing in order to stress the importance of joining forces in order to take action specifically in New York City. Each panelist recommended three steps towards ...
Hospital-based intervention programs (HVIPs) have gained popularity for intervening in the cycle of violence. HVIPs aim to intervene when a survivor comes in contact with the medical system. Many of these programs use peer-based case management as a form of trauma-informed care, in order to match survivors with resources in a culturally ...
Using strategic consultation, training, and research-based tools, CTC is designed to help community stakeholders and decision makers understand and apply information about risk and protective factors, and programs that are proven to make a difference in promoting healthy youth development, in order to most effectively address the specific ...