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Bridgeport Safe Start
Bridgeport, CT
Lead Agency: Bridgeport Central Grants Office
Co-Applicant: The Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition (BCAC)
Safe Start Staff:
- Kristine Hazzard, Executive Director, Center for Women and Families
- Barbara Edinberg, Bridgeport Child Advocacy Coalition
- Rina Bakalar, Grants Coordinator, City of Bridgeport
- Cindy Crusto, Local Evaluation Co-Director
- Joy Kaufman, Local Evaluation Director
- Erain Applewhite, Local Evaluation Consultant
Project Purpose:
The project will utilize Bridgeport's existing collaborative planning
and development, groups, including: BCAC, Communities Against Violence
in the Home (CAVITH) and the Enterprise Community Organizers to structure
the planning process, resulting in the development and implementation
of a five year strategic plan which addresses the needs of children, birth
to six, who have been exposed to violence. The project will further build
on existing collaborative coordination of care groups, including: The
FIRST Team, SIRHY, Continuum of Care and the MIT, to structure a comprehensive
and coordinated system of care to provide services which are responsive
to the needs of children who have been exposed to violence. Bridgeport
has a comprehensive array of services for families with children birth
to six that will be leveraged to achieve the project's goals and objectives.
Project Goals:
- Protect very young children from violence
- Promote community-wide adoption of a shared mission
- Address violence in the context of the family
- Bring all project initiatives to the neighborhood level
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