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Planning for Emergencies: A Family Guide
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What to consider when preparing your family a disaster or other emergency
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Disaster Preparedness
Planning for Emergencies: A Family Guide
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Making Sure You've Got What It Takes
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Supplies you should have on hand in the event of an emergency
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Disaster Preparedness
Making Sure You've Got What It Takes
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Strategies
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Techniques that people can use to protect themselves in the event of a natural or man-made disaster
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Disaster Preparedness
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Strategy: Using State Laws and Ordinances To Combat Gangs
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Strategy State laws can help police enforce against youth gang crime, including graffiti, coercion of members, illegal trafficking in . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Using State Laws and Ordinances To Combat Gangs
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What to Teach Kids About Strangers
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Information about the differences between strangers kids should look out for and strangers kids can trust
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
What to Teach Kids About Strangers
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Teen Victims of Crime
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Facts about teen victims of crimes and how to protect yourself
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
Teen Victims of Crime
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Strategies
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Techniques for teaching people how to stay safe
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Training Emergency Room Staff To Prevent Violence
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Strategy Violence-prevention training for hospital staff and security policies regarding violent patients and visitors reduce the incidence of violence . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Training Emergency Room Staff To Prevent Violence
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Strategy: Teaching Teens To Prevent Dating Violence
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Strategy Educating teens about abusive relationships helps prevent teen dating violence. Community Problem Addressed In dating situations, youth test . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Teaching Teens To Prevent Dating Violence
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Strategy: Shaken Baby Awareness, Advice, and Advocacy
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STRATEGY Promote awareness and prevention of Shaken Baby Syndrome with a strategic media campaign, and develop a community education . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Shaken Baby Awareness, Advice, and Advocacy
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Strategy: Setting Up Personal Emergency Response Services
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Strategy Seniors use small in-home units to communicate the need for emergency services from police or fire departments. Community . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Setting Up Personal Emergency Response Services
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Strategy: Securing Property of Seniors in Long-Term Care Facilities
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Strategy Securing the property of seniors helps provide the safest possible living and working environment for staff and residents . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Securing Property of Seniors in Long-Term Care Facilities
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Strategy: Responding Immediately to Domestic Violence Calls
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Strategy Immediate response from law enforcement to domestic violence calls helps reduce the severity of injury to the victim. . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Responding Immediately to Domestic Violence Calls
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Strategy: Reinforce Community Standards Against Violence
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Strategy Organized violence prevention and awareness campaigns reinforce community standards of nonviolence and help mobilize residents to act to . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Reinforce Community Standards Against Violence
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Strategy: Reduce The Number Of Handguns In The Community
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Strategy Buy-back programs and other strategies to reduce the number of handguns help reduce violence and other crime. Crime . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Reduce The Number Of Handguns In The Community
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Strategy: Reduce Teen Dating Violence
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Abuse in a dating relationship can be confusing and frightening at any age. But for teenagers, this abuse can . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Reduce Teen Dating Violence
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Strategy: Public Dialogue and Community Mediation
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Strategy Community-based public dialogues help identify neighborhood issues and resolve disputes among groups. Crime Problem Addressed The strategy addresses . ...
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Public Dialogue and Community Mediation
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Strategy: Providing Self-Protection Courses for Women
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Strategy This strategy encourages women to expand self-awareness with verbal, nonverbal, and physical self-defense techniques. Community Problem Addressed One ...
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Providing Self-Protection Courses for Women
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Strategy: Providing Domestic Violence Services to Refugee Communities
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Strategy Domestic violence agencies educate refugee community members about the law as it pertains to this crime and offer . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Providing Domestic Violence Services to Refugee Communities
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Strategy: Involving Youth in Violence Prevention
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Strategy Youth should be involved in planning and carrying out strategies to prevent violence in their communities. They contribute . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Involving Youth in Violence Prevention
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Strategy: Gang Prevention Through Community Intervention With High-Risk Youth
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Strategy Coordinated intervention by the community and law enforcement personnel reduces the likelihood that high-risk youth with become involved . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Gang Prevention Through Community Intervention With High-Risk Youth
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Strategy: Establishing Safe Drop-off Points for Abandoned Newborns
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STRATEGY Provide a safe place for a mother in crisis to surrender her unharmed newborn without fear of prosecution . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Establishing Safe Drop-off Points for Abandoned Newborns
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Strategy: Easy Access to Prevention and Treatment Services
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Strategy When a community provides easy access to prevention and early intervention services, these services reach youth and adults . . .
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Strategy: Easy Access to Prevention and Treatment Services
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Strategy: Dealing With Serious Habitual Offenders
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Strategy Comprehensive action and targeted enforcement helps law enforcement agencies identify and apprehend serious, habitual juvenile offenders. Such ...
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Dealing With Serious Habitual Offenders
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Strategy: Daily Wellness Checks
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Strategy Law enforcement can use wellness checks as a way to work directly with seniors to create innovative solutions . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Daily Wellness Checks
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Strategy: Crime Prevention Services For The Elderly
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Strategy Crime prevention and victim services help address the special vulnerability to crime and violence of some elderly people. . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Crime Prevention Services For The Elderly
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Strategy: Community-Based Victim Assistance
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Strategy Community-based victim assistance programs operated in partnership with policing agencies effectively combine support for victims with education aimed ...
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Community-Based Victim Assistance
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Strategy: Corporate Support for Antiviolence Projects
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Strategy Corporations contribute to or implement antiviolence campaigns using their products, services, and resources. The visibility of corporate community . ...
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Corporate Support for Antiviolence Projects
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Strategy: Assisting Child Victims
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Strategy Coordination of victim assistance services focused on the developmental needs of child victims of crime or abuse helps . . .
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Violent Crime and Personal Safety
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Strategy: Assisting Child Victims