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... Such a campaign would include national conferences involving researchers, service providers, government officials, and child and other victim advocates, as well as a broad-scale media education effort focused on family violence. The purpose of such a campaign would be to raise the visibility of the scope and significance of family violence, publicize significant research findings, establish agency positions on ways to address the problem, and foster collaborative efforts among health, social service, and criminal justice professionals.
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... Research and program development are also needed to identify the essential features of successful comprehensive community-based programs and the extent to which such programs should seek to combine the diverse range of family counselling and family support activities now fragmented in a wide range of categorical programs (including child protective services, Head Start, maternal and child health care, child care, and job training programs)
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... An elderly person's registration for Medicare, for example, could represent an appropriate time for health and social service interventions designed to support healthy family functioning. The dimensions and long-term costs of family violence are just beginning to emerge in American society.
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