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According to the Family Violence Prevention Fund, a growing body of research reveals that domestic violence and child abuse occur in the same families and are highly associated with similar social and economic risk factors. Data also show that children growing up in violent families are more likely to engage in youth violence. Given these findings, an effective strategy to combat child abuse, domestic violence and youth violence would be a collaborative, community-based prevention/early intervention effort that aims to reduce the social and economic risk factors for at-risk families.
Visit the Family Violence Prevention Fund Website (endabuse.org) to find out more.

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The keys to creating a supportive family:

being a nurturing parent
learning healthy ways to deal with stress
helping children feel loved and secure
seeking help from family, friends or community resources when needed

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How Violence in the Family Affects Children

Promotes increased public awareness and positive action. Gives readers insight into the connection between violence in the home and child abuse as well as how domestic violence harms children. Discusses ways to help children protect themselves physically and emotionally, and suggest how community members and professionals can help.

Anger Management: For Better Parenting

This booklet helps parents deal with angry feelings in ways that support a healthy parent-child relationship and reduce the risk of child maltreatment. Helps readers recognize their anger warning signs, guides parents in teaching anger-management skills to their children, and provides a list of sources of additional help and information.

Hello Friends of Prevention,

We know that family communication is important in creating a positive home environment for children and youth to develop, but how do we do that and how else can we create a nurturing and supportive family?

Healthy communication, providing a stable home and environment, creating healthy outlets of expression, and showing affection to other family members as well as our children, are some of the tools we can use to build a supportive structure for families and communities.

The Search Institute reports while 47% of sixth graders report positive family communication, only 22% of high school seniors do. No matter the age of your children, family communication is an ongoing challenge.

Further, family violence can greatly affect children's upbringing and the supportive structure of the family. The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect reports that children in violent homes face three risks: the risk of observing traumatic events, the risk of being abused themselves, and the risk of being neglected. When children both witness family violence and experience maltreatment negative effects increase.

To help counteract these facts and to help you create a positive family environment this issue focuses on tips for healthy family communication and anger management, as well as provides sources of information around creating a supportive structure for families and communities.

We hope that this information adds to your own knowledge and methods for creating stable and supportive family environments and healthy communities.

Enjoy!

James M. Hmurovich
President and CEO

6 Tips for Better Family Communication

Do you regularly get together to talk with your family about problems or the day's events? Or is your idea of family communication nodding to one another as you pass each other on the way to the bathroom? Conversation is the key to any strong relationship, but family communication is especially important. Want to improve your family's communication skills? Try implementing these six, simple steps...

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Controlling Your Anger

The goal of anger management is to reduce both your emotional feelings and the physiological arousal that anger causes. You can't get rid of, or avoid, the things or the people that enrage you, nor can you change them, but you can learn to control your reactions.

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