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Family Violence Webquest
Family Violence Learning Module
Family Violence related sites
Family Violence statistics
Hands Across the Globe
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University Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Instructor: Gregory M. Chase, MS Emergency Medicine, PA-C, RN
Section One, Community Health Introductory Program Winter 2009
Contact: gchase@westernu.edu
Design by: Gregory M. Chase, PA-C, RN
HSCI 5102 Principles of Instructional Design
This lesson was developed as part of the Western University HSCI 5102
Principles of Instructional Design
Making Prevention a Priority
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Introduction
Put an end to domestic violence
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Abuse in America, land of the free?
On the average, more than three women are murdered by their husbands or boyfriends every day, a child is abused every 60 seconds; a child dies every 20 minutes, at the hands of their mother or father...in America.
The goal of PreventFamilyViolence.com and this module is to increase awareness of the pervasiveness of family violence in the United States and Canada. The primary goal of the Violence Against Women and Family Violence act is to promote the safety of women and family members, increase awareness to the millions of families
that continue to face daily trauma in their lives which spill over to increased crime rates, violence and suffering. While the efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice system's response to these crimes has improved dramatically over the past 25 years, until we reach the foundation of family violence by focusing on prevention will we ever hope to end violence against women and children and promote healthy, violence-free families and communities...read more->>
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