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LINC includes a training component for those who most often come into contact with traumatized kids--including police, doctors, teachers, childcare providers and the staff of community organizations--to heighten their sensitivity to and improve identification of child witnesses of violence. LINC will also provide violence prevention training to middle and high school students.

Each year, the UCSF/MZVPP will train an estimated 50 police officers and 100 health care and community service providers, as well as treat 70 children between the ages of 6 and 12. In addition, 25 parents will enroll in the UCSF/MZVPP's parenting classes that provide education about child development, discipline techniques, and alternatives to corporal punishment.

Annually, San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center will treat an estimated 35 children between infancy and 5 years old, as well as 35 youth between the ages of 13 and 18. The San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation will provide training for 1,000 middle and high school students and staff on various aspects of domestic violence and strategies for coping with and preventing violence.

RWJF's grant to the UCSF/MZVPP is part of their Local Initiatives Funding Partners Program (LIFP) that identifies innovative, community-based projects that have the potential to develop into national models and are designed to improve health and health care for underserved and at-risk populations. In 1999, the RWJF LIFP program received more than 300 applications. Of those, 29 were chosen for site visits and only 18 projects were funded.

The RWJF LIFP grant is a one-to-one matching grant. Sufficient funds have been secured for the first year, but the UCSF/MZVPP still needs to raise monies for the second and third years of the grant, McNamara said. Funding partners
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Contact: Abby Sinnott
asinnott@pubaff.ucsf.edu
415-885-7277
University of California - San Francisco
9-Sep-1999