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NCCEV Press ReleasesFor immediate release: June 30, 2005NCCEV Staff to present at NASRO with the NHDPS
Dr. James Lewis, III, Chief Operating Officer for the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence, along with Sergeant Ricardo Rodriquez of the New Haven Department of Police Service and Dr. Sam Song from the University of North Carolina (formerly with the Yale Child Study Center), will present on the collaborative work of School Resource Officers and mental health specialists in schools when responding to children exposed to violence (CEV) at the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) annual meeting in Dallas, TX on July 12th, 2005. The purpose of the NASRO meeting is to bring together School Resource Officers (SRO’s), school administrators and juvenile probation officers to hear about effective community programs throughout the country designed to keep school environments safe. The NHPD/NCCEV collaborative presentation is based on the work of the Child Development-Community Policing Program established in New Haven, CT in 1991. The CD-CP program, under the direction of Dr. Steven Marans, the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, is a national model of a police-mental health collaboration that reduces the negative impact of children’s exposure to violence by coordinating the response of police, mental health, and other social service professionals from the initial moment of a crisis. The CD-CP collaboration has provided a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between violence, traumatic stress symptoms, and antisocial behavior, and to develop more effective ways of delivering better police and mental health services. The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV) at the Yale
Child Study Center was established in 1999 with funding from the Office
of Juvenile and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) to support the 11 Safe
Start Demonstration project sites throughout the country. The goals of
the NCCEV are to raise public awareness about the effects of children’s
exposure to violence (CEV); provide training and technical assistance
to communities nationwide; and, to serve as a national resource center
for professionals and the public on topics related to CEV. For more information, please contact the National Center for Children
Exposed to Violence at www.nccev.org
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