ED352161 PS020952
Title: Can They Hope To Feel Safe Again? The Impact of Community Violence
on Infants, Toddlers, Their Parents and Practitioners. A Report from
the Final Plenary Session, Biennial National Training Institute, ZERO
to THREE/National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (7th, Washington,
D.C., December 8, 1991).
Author Affiliation: National Center for Clinical Infant Programs,
Arlington, VA.(BBB28380)
Pages: 33
Publication Date: 1992
ISBN: 0-943657-26-1
Available from: EDRS Price MF01/PC02 Plus Postage.
Availability: Zero to Three/National Center for Clinical Infant Programs,
2000 14th Street North, Suite 380, Arlington, VA 22201-2500 ($5, plus
$2.50 shipping and handling).
Language: English
Document Type: Collected works--Proceedings (021); Opinion papers
(120); Reports--Descriptive (141)
Geographic Source: U.S.; Virginia
Journal Announcement: RIEAPR1993
The theme
of the conference session reported in this booklet was the impact
of community violence on infants, toddlers, their parents, and practitioners
in education. The booklet contains the edited transcript of the
session, which included presentations by three speakers. Clementine
Barfield described the impact of urban violence on her family and
on the children with whom she works in Detroit, Michigan. The loss
of her son through violence led her to found the organization Save
Our Sons And Daughters (SOSAD), a project that engages in crisis
intervention and violence prevention and provides support groups
for those who are affected by violence. Elizabeth M. Simpson, a
social worker, discussed the work of the PALS program, which was
devised by the school district of East Oakland, California. This
program delivers therapy, counseling, and tutoring services in two
elementary schools. Some of the symptoms caused by a violent event
were reviewed. Betsy McAlister Groves, also a social worker, reviewed
work that she and her colleagues at Boston (Massachusetts) City
Hospital have been doing concerning young children's exposure to
violence. The insights and reflections of these speakers suggest
that there is much that can be done to address the impact of violence.
(SLD)
Descriptors: Anxiety; *Coping; *Counseling; Crime; Crisis Intervention;
*Homicide; Infants; Inner City; Parents; Security (Psychology);
Social Work; Therapy; Toddlers; Tutoring; Urban Areas; Urban Problems;
*Victims of Crime; *Violence
Identifiers: California (Oakland); *Emotional Distress; Massachusetts
(Boston); Michigan (Detroit); Practitioners; Save Our Sons And Daughters;
Zero to Three
