Keeping Youth Safe: Strategies That Work To Prevent Violence
A Statewide Dialogue on Youth Violence Prevention

EDITOR'S NOTE: LA Community Policing has been working to coordinate this statewide event and will be participating in the LA area live session at KCET Public Television, Community Room, 4401 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90027.

The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) presents and invites you to attend:

Date: June 3, 2004
Time: 8:15 a.m. - noon, breakfast provided

The California Wellness Foundation is sponsoring a live satellite videoconference that will link California state and local policymakers in an important dialogue with law enforcement personnel, health professionals, advocates and youth from San Diego to Redding.

Following the live broadcast, communities will hold local meetings to discuss where we go from here. The goal is to develop recommendations that encourage government agencies to continue investing in programs and policies that prevent violence against young people.

On the Agenda:

Policy options to keep youth safe: panel discussion with state and local policymakers In their own words: youth and advocates on youth safety in California Results from the 2004 statewide voter poll Discussion of policies and programs that work Profiles of programs that work

Where Is the Conference?

The videoconference will be broadcast live with studio audiences from Sacramento (KVIE, Channel 6) and Los Angeles (KCET, Channel 28) and downlinked to communities from San Diego to Redding.

In each community, registration will begin at 8 a.m., with breakfast provided. After a local welcome at 9 a.m., the hour-and-a-half live broadcast will begin at 9:30.

Immediately following, a local community meeting will be convened to discuss policies and programs to keep youth safe.

In Los Angeles:

Violence prevention programs work. They have saved thousands of lives. And they have saved money - up to $3 for every $1 invested.

As California faces a daunting state budget deficit, we must not abandon our commitment to violence prevention. During the last decade the rates of violence were dramatically reduced and much of this success can be attributed to effective programs and policies that initiated in California. But there is much more than can be done. More than 6,000 young people are hospitalized each year for some form of violent injury. Violence prevention programs have never been as important to the health of our communities as they are now.

To pre-register, go to http://www.preventviolence.org/events/register.html

Statewide Co-Sponsors:

California Police Chief's Association California State PTA -California Sheriff's Association CCS Partnership (joint effort of the League of California Cities, California State Association of Counties and California School Boards Association) Chief Probation Officers of California Fight Crime: Invest In Kids -League of Women Voters Little Hoover Commission Prevention Institute

For more information on this event, visit: http://www.preventviolence.org/events

If you require further information or assistance, please contact:

The California Wellness Foundation (TCWF) presents Keeping Youth Safe: Strategies That Work To Prevent Violence, a statewide dialogue on youth violence prevention. TCWF is an independent, private foundation created in 1992 to improve the health of the people of California by making grants for health promotion, wellness education and disease prevention.

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