Committee Co-chair, Deb Clark

Committee Co-Chair, Greg Graham

Mission

To safeguard childhood by supporting teachers and other professionals who are concerned with the violence in children’s lives.

Join other professionals. Share information. Pose questions. Continue dialogue.

Do you want to learn more on how to create a physically and emotionally safe childhood for children? Do you have any interest in the issues that effect children such as war-play, bullying, exclusion, poverty, abuse, or neglect to name a few? What are the challenges you face? We would like to hear from you! Please contact us.

Resources

• Adults and Children Together Against Violence: www.actagainstviolence.org
• Chicago Children’s Advocacy Center: www.chicagocac.org
• Chicago Safe Start: www.chicagosafestart.net
• Illinois Violence Prevention Authority: www.ivpa.org
• Teaching Tolerance Project: www.tolerance.org
• The Collaborative for the Advancement for Social and Emotional Learning: www.casel.org
• The Guidance Channel: www.guidancechannel.com

Resources for Victims of Violence

• Chicago Rape Crisis Hotline – 1-888-293-2080
• Child Abuse Hotline: 1-800-25-ABUSE
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-799-SAFE
• School Violence Tipline – 1-800-477-0024

Resource Ordering Information

• Choosing Non-Violence by Anne Parry, Melissa Walker & Chris Heim. Published by Rainbow House.
• Being a Friend, Having a Friend….Powerful Ways to Prevent Bullying by Katherine Klimisch & Anne Parry. Call Chicago Department of Public Health’s Office of Violence Prevention: 312-745-0381.
• Right on Course: How Trauma and Maltreatment Impact Children in the Classroom, and How You Can Help. developed by CIVITAS. Call 312-226-6700
• Violence Prevention Resource Guide for Parents (December 2001; Catalog #225) by Peggy Patten & Anne S. Robertson Call ERIC/EECE Publications: 800-583-4135. 217-333-1386.
• Let’s Talk about Living in a World without Violence by James Garbarino. Call Kathleen Kostelney at Erikson Institute: 312-755-2250

Meetings