Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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7 Community-Based Interventions
7 Community-Based Interventions
Pages 65-72
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• Pediatricians and other health care professionals who work with children can advocate for bullying awareness by teachers, educational administrators, parents, and children and make the case for new laws and policies that affect bullying. (Wright)
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An informal application of this principle, Goldweber said, is a program in Baltimore called Safe Passages, in which garbage collectors act as informal monitors as students make their way through neighborhoods. Another example is a program in California called Homeboy Industries, which was developed by a pastor for severely at-risk youth caught in a cycle of recidivism.
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Compared with youth in the comparison group, youth under the Communities That Care program were 25 percent less likely to have initiated delinquent behavior and 32 and 33 percent less likely to have initiated alcohol and cigarette use, respectively. Finally, the Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care program finds out-of-home placements for youth from the juvenile justice, foster care, and mental health systems, Goldweber said.
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Among the many factors that affect this research, she said, are buy-in through relationship building, engaging gatekeepers, trust, communication, return on investment, capacity, sustainability, and cultural response. An excellent example of such research, Goldweber said, is the PARTNERS youth violence prevention program (Leff et al., 2010)
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ROLES OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS For health care professionals, the issue of bullying has largely been subsumed into the broader issue of violence, said Joseph Wright, a professor and vice chair in the Department of Pediatrics and a professor of emergency medicine and health policy at the George Washington University Schools of Medicine and Public Health. Injury due to violence is a substantial problem facing pediatricians, pediatricians feel they have an important role to play in prevention, and parents believe that pediatricians have a central role to play in prevention, according to surveys conducted by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
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These brochures provide pediatricians with a way to address the issue of bullying in the most common health care setting that children will encounter, which is the officebased setting, he said. Finally, Wright pointed out another valuable contribution that pediatricians can make to anti-bullying efforts: They can contribute data to existing surveillance systems.
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In response to another question, Wright observed that the universal definition of bullying enables the collection of information that could be kept in an electronic health record. More uniform reporting and responses to bullying could help school systems, health care practitioners, and other groups that interact with children, such as parks and recreation departments, speak the same language and be on the same page, he said.
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I have not necessarily seen such willingness to share in other types of environments."
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