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Chatham Co. Safe Start
Chatham County, NC
Lead Agency: Chatham County
Partnership for Children
Safe Start Staff:
- Vicki Newell, Safe Start Project Director, CCPC
- George Friday, Project Coordinator, CCPC
- Genevieve (Jenny) Megginson, Executive Director, CCPC
- Adolfo Aguilar, Community Program Coordinator, CCPC
- Jean-Claude Mowandza-Ndinga, Program and Evaluation Coordinator, CCPC
- George Cole, Senior Research Associate, Jordan Institute for Families
- Deborah Day, Research Specialist, CCPC
- Trish Kohl, Research Associate
- Sharon Hicks, Project Assistant
Project Purpose:
Chatham County, a large rural county, is simultaneously sustaining a
massive influx of Hispanic workers, a large proportion of households living
below poverty, and rapid suburban growth that diverts tax dollars away
from social programs. This turmoil often results in violence, much of
which affects children. The chief problem we will address is that the
system of services to prevent and respond to the impact of violence on
children is narrow, unfocused, and fragmented. Under the current system,
if a child is not directly involved when an adult commits violence, no
formal protocol is in place to systematically identify that child. The
community is not trained in recognizing a child suffering from exposure
to violence, or in identification of violence risk factors. Children ages
0-8 are the target population.
The vision of the project is that whenever and wherever a Chatham County
child is a victim or witness of a violent event, a coordinated community
system responds to the needs of that child, so that every child has the
opportunity to grow healthy and strong.
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Project Goals:
- Create a system to identify and express concerns about violence
- Improve services for young children at high risk of exposure to violence
or who have been exposed to violence
- Educate the community with respect to the impact of violence on children's
lives and coordinated community responses to it
- Strengthen community protocols for responding to violence in children's
lives
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