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Guide Seeks To Heal the Wounds of Children Exposed to Violence
OJJDP's Safe Start Center has published “Healing the Invisible Wounds: Children's Exposure to Violence.” The guide, available in English and Spanish, offers tips on how to recognize the signs of children's exposure to violence and advice on helping children thus exposed. Exposure to violence is a pervasive problem that crosses all ages, and the guide provides specific information pertaining to children of various ages, as well as a list of useful resources. ![More icon](images/1_more_icon.gif)
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Manual Provides Assistance on Disproportionate Minority Contact |
OJJDP has released a new edition of its Disproportionate Minority Contact Technical Assistance Manual. The updated fourth edition presents methods for calculating and analyzing disproportionate minority contact and describes how jurisdictions may use data to facilitate informed decision making, multidisciplinary and collaborative approaches and partnerships, promising intervention strategies, and performance measurement and evaluation. |
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