Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre
Peaceful Resources Center
Country: United States of America
Number of inhabitants:
Programme started year: 2000
Affiliate Safe Community Support Centre: Designation year: 2006
www.intlsafeschools.com
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For further information contact:
Max L. Vosskuhler, MS
Peaceful Resources Center
105 Raintree Road
Sedona, Arizona 86351 USA
Phone: +1-928-284-9544
E-mail: mlv@intlsafeschools.com
E-mail: max.vosskuhler@yahoo.com
www.intlsafeschools.com
Brief description under each of the 10 indicators:
1) The provision of Centre programs and services utilize multidisciplinary and cross sectoral approaches.
Peaceful Resources Center is proud to provide several programs that are multidisciplinary and cross-sectoral, most specialize in community based injury prevention delivered primarily through the schools and other locations children, parents and grandparents frequent.
Key Examples of those programs are:
• International Safe Schools- a collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion. Please see web page for more information.
• PeaceBuilders® International – a community based school climate change program designed to reduce injuries from violence, suicide and other behavioural causes. For more information please see web page.
• Violence and Injury Prevention “VIP” Training from the World Health Organization
• Sourcebook of Evaluated Programs evaluated under the WHO standards.
2) The Centre provides a framework for promoting collective action which includes involvement with community networks.
Local Networks: Schools – Newsletter every six weeks; Meeting with Area School Officials involved with injury, safety and health every semester; Invitations to trainings on topics of interest to local teachers and parents on school safety issues
Communities- Press releases & submission of opinion/editorials to news agencies when issues of injury/safety are in the news, through local government contacts participation and information to neighborhood associations and groups throughout area about safety, WHO, violence prevention, etc. Participation in multiple foundations and civic organizations of employees and Board Members to represent cross sectoral influence throughout the community.
Philanthropy – Meetings with major local philanthropists, attend community foundation events and speak about injuries and solutions, develop innovating philanthropy vehicles to interest the philanthropic community, create ties between current philanthropic goals and injury prevention and safety promotion. This area is handled by marketing director volunteer Michael Krupnick
Cross-Sectoral & Academic- Offer trainings, courses and services to academic and professional organizations in Tucson on Injury Prevention, School Safety, etc. Same with serving on State Boards for the Governor of the State of Arizona, serving on behalf of the GLBT community.
National Networks: Public Health- Newsletters, Committees, & Meetings: Electronic Newsletters sent out every six to eight weeks on research and practice in Safe Communities, Safe Schools, Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion help keep everyone who has expressed interest at the national level in the loop. In October 2004, The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention brought together national and state leaders in school safety to discuss and go over the International Safe Schools Program and Guide. This partnership produced many good suggestions, including National level networks and Affiliates for Safe Schools that would work within each nation’s school and federal framework. In the US the National Network is slowly working on development.
International Network & Frameworks:
International Safe Communities
International Safe Schools
WHO Violence Prevention Alliance
Safe Community Affiliate Centres
PAHO
Newsletters
Conferences
3) The Centre provides consultative support to communities in the establishment of Safe Community initiatives.
Peaceful Resources Center has demonstrated its ability in the past to provide consultative support to Ra’anana, Israel in its establishment of its Safe Community. Additionally, through the International Safe Schools Guide, trainings, phone and e-mail support continues to support and encourage all International Safe Schools, not only the five designated, but those seeking designation, including Porto Alegre, Brazil, Hong Kong China, Suwon South Korea, Seoul South Korea, Bangkok Thailand, etc.
Beyond previous accomplishment and current work, Peaceful Resources Center is committed to spreading our support of all community initiatives in the Americas and any school based initiatives anywhere around the world. Through research, training, consultation, marketing, conferences, web-casts, etc., all forms of technology to further the message of safe communities and safe schools will be employed to keep costs down and efficacy up.
Collaboration in the consultative support is necessary for all global initiatives. To that end, in 2005, Peaceful Resources Center in Collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Centre on Community Safety Promotion International Safe Schools Program Dedicated two International Safe Schools Affiliate Centres: Safe Communities Foundation New Zealand and Ajou University Injury Prevention Center Suwon South Korea. The Center plans to further designate Affiliates in Safe Schools to further this purpose.
The Center is actively contacting communities in the United States to become International Safe Communities.
4) The Centre facilitates and supports community-based strategic planning processes.
Not only does Peaceful Resources Center, provide tools and training for communities to perform these tasks on their own, PRC staff provides the service of data analysis and consulting on results. Further services provided are:
• resources to promote best practice in community-based injury prevention
• and safety promotion programmes;
• networking opportunities both at local and national levels;
• strategic advice on community development;
• expertise in the conduct of evaluation; and
• encouragement for the appropriate documentation and dissemination of
• community-based initiatives.
5) The Centre demonstrates leadership and stewardship in addressing priority injury issues, high risk, and vulnerable groups.
PRC Director, Max L. Vosskuhler, MS is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in School and Community Safety Promotion and Injury Prevention. As Co-chair of the International Safe Schools Designation Program in collaboration with the WHO Collaborating Center on Community Safety Promotion since 2001, Max has lead the global charge for systemic and systematic injury prevention and safety promotion in schools. He has met with Education and Health Ministers from over 20 countries, collaborated with over 250 scientists and professionals to promote the concepts of cross-sectoral community based injury prevention in schools. His motivation and commitment are constant and unwavering.
He enrolls others through data, his commitment and vision to drive the movement internationally. Bringing in strong partners who are wiser and more seasoned to create a stronger movement, he is continually building the organization.
This is not to say that PRC is not committed to reaching out to vulnerable groups such as the elderly, children not in school, women, GLBT populations etc. School populations which have more than children and often contain women and GLBT populations, can also interact with the elderly for wise counsel and positive injury prevention work.
6) The Centre provides expert services and knowledge in the area of injury data and injury surveillance issues.
Peaceful Resources Center provides a repository of reviewed community based programs, using the WHO Violence and Injury Prevention Division’s Criteria for evaluation of an intervention program, on its websites. This repository is available to anyone who wishes to access it and is kept up bi-monthly. Additionally, all papers, posters and meeting minutes of the International Safe Schools Conferences and Regional Meetings are published on the intlsafeschools.com website as well as available on CD by post.
7) The Centre demonstrates a long term commitment to supporting Safe Communities and the Safe Community Network within their organizations strategic plan.
Peaceful Resources Center stated on the IRS form 1023 that its main strategic focus was to support and work with the International Safe Community Network, support the development of Safe Communities in the US and Internationally, and support and develop International Safe Schools with the WHO CC on Community Safety Promotion. Therefore, for all time, the commitment of Peaceful Resources Center to support Safe Communities exists, no matter who works for or is running the organization.
In the past five years, the commitment of Peaceful Resources Center to Safe Communities and the Safe Communities Network is very clear. Every international conference has been attended by staff of PRC, and programs have been constantly supported and developed by PRC.
8) The Centre supports those responsible at the community level to utilize appropriate indicators to evaluate community processes, effects of change and injury rates.
Directly through lectures and trainings, members of the community are taught
• The general system of data driven community change
• How the data may be found and vetted
• Tools to gather and analyze data
• Consultants in addition to PRC for data analysis
• Proper data application methods
Peaceful Resources Center supports use of the indicators from the International Safe Communities Movement at all events, types of community evaluation, and forums. These events have been:
• International Forums – WHO Injury Conferences, WHO Violence Prevention Alliance Meetings, International Safe Community Meetings, Safe School Conferences, Education Conferences, Publications
• National Forums – Federal Meetings, Meetings with Public Leaders, meetings with educators, Conferences
• Local Forums – Editorials, Trainings, meetings with philanthropists, meetings with hospitals, meetings with local government
Additionally in meetings with Applicant Safe Communities PRC leadership advocates for inclusion of all injury related data including:
• Precursor data: what was happening before- environment, behaviour, antecedent events, physical state of things (e.g. states of repair, decay, new, etc.)
• Standard Haddon’s Matrix Analyses
• Freely available data: Emergency/ trauma registries, mortality registries – what’s included, what’s missing
• COST DATA
9) The Centre disseminates their experiences both at national and international levels.
International Support: PRC has presented their experiences at each of the International Safe Communities Conferences since 2001, the World Health Organization World Conference on Injury Prevention and Control in 2002, 2004 and has been accepted in 2006, presented at Safe Comunity Regional Conferences. PRC has co-hosted the first 3 International Safe Schools International Conferences, and is hosting the first Regional Conference in the US for the Americas.
National Support: On the National level through the CDC meeting in October 2004, PRC reached all of the federal and several state officers in the US with what PRC has been doing. PRC continually promotes our successes and discusses our challenges at other national education, and safety school conferences in the US.
10) The Centre reports on their Safe Community activities and research efforts.
Publications:
International Safe Schools Guide 2002, rev. 2003, rev. 2005
Download the application report: The Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files requires Acrobat Reader, available free from Adobe's website
Papers and presentations please see web page.
Information material: Brochures, Fact Sheets, Informational Links available on above sites, by phone, email or fax.
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