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The Child Witness to Violence Project (CWVP) is a counseling, advocacy, and outreach project that focuses on the growing number of young children who are hidden victims of violence: children who are bystanders to community and domestic violence.

CWVP is staffed by a multi-cultural, multi-lingual staff of social workers, psychologists, early childhood specialists, and a consulting pediatrician and consulting attorney. It is run under the auspices of the Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center.

Goals of the project include:

To identify young children who witness acts of significant violence.

To help young children heal from the trauma of witnessing violence by providing developmentally appropriate counseling for them and for their families.

To provide consultation and training to the network of caregivers in the lives of young children in order that they may more effectively identify and respond to children who are exposed to violence.

Now Available for Download:

Safe and Bright Futures for Children - Final Report

Safe and Bright Futures for Children - Executive Summary

Hope and Healing is a guide for early childhood professionals who care for children in a variety
of early care and education settings. The authors define trauma and help readers recognize its
effects on young children. They also offer tips, resources, and proven intervention strategies for
working with traumatized children and their families and for managing stress. >>more

Purchase these uplifting A World Without Violence Note cards and support the Child Witness to Violence Proect >>more

Children Who See Too Much This valuable book by Betsy McAlister Groves alerts parents and clinicians to the pain which children experience after witnessing violence.

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The Child Witness to Violence Project is a distributor of the Safe Havens Training Curriculum developed by Family Communications, Inc. producers of Mister Roger's Neighborhood

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Also, we have compiled information on many useful tools providing easy access to:

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