Taking Back the Streets & Sidewalks: Safe Routes to School ...
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Taking Back the Streets & Sidewalks: Safe Routes to School & Violence Prevention
Sara Zimmerman, JD Technical Assistance Director
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• Safe Routes to School programs protect kids from crime & violence
• Potential to partner more with violence prevention advocates, with benefits for both groups
• Lessons for Safe Routes to School in communities with high violence
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What’s the Problem? Crime and Violence on the Way to School
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Crime & Violence and the Trip to School
• Bullying • Street harassment &
sexual assault • Physical assault &
robbery • Gang activity • Police harassment
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Overview of Children’s Exposure to Violence
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Re Research shows
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Re Research shows
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• Physical injury • Disability • Death • PTSD • Depression • Substance abuse • Increase in risky health
behaviors • Decrease in healthy
practices • Less physical activity
• Obesity and other health consequences
• Lower academic performance (due to missed school as well as reduced ability to concentrate & learn)
• Damage to community social fabric
• Damage to economic opportunities
Effects of Exposure to Violence
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Factors that Affect Likelihood of Violence
• Protect from specific incidents
• Safety net
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The Upshot • The vast majority of kids and youth experience
some level of exposure to violence • Low income kids and kids of color are more
likely to be exposed, be victims of violence, and experience more severe violence
• Exposure to violence has serious, wide-ranging effects
• By supporting resilience factors, we can reduce the amount of violence and its effects
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Working Together Toward Solutions
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What Can Safe Routes Offer? • Specific approaches that protect kids during
distinct vulnerable time periods every day • A contribution to a comprehensive approach to
community safety • Interactions with caring adults; decreases to
absenteeism • Contributing to social cohesion and community
well-being • A source of funding for efforts to reduce
violence on the route to school
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Safe Routes to School strategies
• Walking school buses
• Corner captains • Safe havens • Safe passages
programs
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Other Approaches
• Other youth programs
• Community oriented policing
• Crime prevention through environmental design
• Broader community needs
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Takeaways
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• Safe Routes to School resources & know how can benefit existing violence prevention efforts
• Understanding dangers and violence prevention can make Safe Routes to School programs more effective
• Collaborate for safer kids and healthier communities
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Report
Available in early July
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Sara Zimmerman Technical Assistance Director [email protected]