Violence Prevention, Reduction and Intervention

Domestic Violence

Domestic Violence Services on HumanServices.net
Emergency housing for women and families fleeing domestic violence

Family Acceptance Project
Offers ideas to help ethnically, socially and religiously diverse families decrease rejection and increase support for their LGBT children.

Community Violence

Anti-luring Tips
Helpful suggestions for children and their parents about how to be aware and stay safe in a neighborhood setting.

Family Acceptance Project
Offers ideas to help ethnically, socially and religiously diverse families decrease rejection and increase support for their LGBT children.

One Vision One Life 
The mission of One Vision One Life is to stop homicides by reaching out to gang members, and youth at risk of becomeing gang members, and providing opportunities for a better way of life.

Safe Start
Safe Start, a part of the DHS Office of Community Services, is a program dedicated to improving outcomes for children who witness violence whether in their homes or communities. Safe Start provides trainings to professionals and families about how to recognize the effect witnessing violence has on young children and how to assist them in processing their responses. 

Contact: 412-350-3693 or safestart@allegheycounty.us

Stop Bullying Now!
Gives kids and parents helpful ideas about how to "take a stand and lend a hand" to stop bullying now!

Videos

 Break the Silence: Stop the Violence

 Protecting Kids Online: Real Stories about Real Kids  

Publications

 Helping Children and Youth Who Have Experienced Traumatic Events
Highlights two programs that support children and youth who have experienced trauma -- the Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and Their Families Program and the The Donald J. Cohen National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative.
U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), 2011