Imagine reducing child abuse and neglect by 79%.
Imagine reducing maternal behavioral problems due to alcohol and drug abuse by 44%.
Imagine reducing the duration of dependency on Aid to Families with Dependent Children by 30 months.
How many tax dollars are these social benefits worth?
$100,000 per at-risk family? $50,000 per family? $10,000 per family?
Now, what if it were possible to save money with such a program?
Imagine a net savings to taxpayers of over $17,000 per at-risk family.
Does this sound like a far off utopia? Well, it’s not. Such success has been achieved by the Nurse Family Partnership. The program has existed for over 20 years and been rigorously assessed by public policy experts. It provides nurses who work with families in their homes during pregnancy and the first two years of a child’s life. The program is designed to help women improve their prenatal health and the outcomes of pregnancy; enhance the care provided to infants and toddlers in an effort to ameliorate the children’s health and development; and advance women’s own personal development, giving particular attention to the planning of future pregnancies, women’s educational achievement, and parents’ participation in the work force.
The Washington State Institute of Public Policy estimates the costs of the program at about $9,000 tax-dollars per at-risk family. The benefits, however, it estimates at over $26,000 to taxpayers. These benefits include not only the direct outcomes listed above but also longer term ones, such as reduced dependency on welfare and Medicare, lower rates of incarceration, lower rates of family violence, and improved scholastic attendance. This means fewer tax dollars are spent, accruing a net savings for the taxpayer.
This is just one of many programs that actually help reduce and prevent violence and improve overall wellbeing while saving tax dollars. Other such programs address juvenile delinquency, gang violence, youth and school violence, family violence, hate crimes, and provide less expensive, effective alternatives to the current penal system.
This paper provides a snapshot of the current state of violence in the United States and a sampling of proven, statistically verifiable programs that successfully prevent and reduce violence. While these programs remain hampered by inadequate and inconsistent funding, lack of resources and limited geographic reach, the fact remains that they are beneficial for Americans’ social well-being and for Americans’ financial bottom line.
The good news about violence in the United States is that Americans have found incredibly innovative and resourceful ways to address violence and its root causes. All that is missing is an infrastructure to give these programs more visibility and viability, allocate them more funding resources, and to make them a matter of local, state, and national policy.
Participate in an historic citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace. There is currently a bill introduced, BILL HR 808. This historic measure will augment our current problem-solving modalities, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict.
Domestically, the Department of Peace will develop policies and allocate resources to effectively reduce the levels of domestic and gang violence, child abuse, and various other forms of societal discord. Internationally, the Department will advise the President and Congress on the most sophisticated ideas and techniques regarding peace-creation among nations. Learn more...
Join us now. Create a Department of Peace.
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"The Student Peace Alliance advocates the Legislation for a Culture of Peace through education and grassroots action"
Objectives
• Lobby for the Legislation for a Department of Peace
• Create Cultures of Peace on campuses and in communities
Background
The Student Peace Alliance formed in March of 2006 as a group of local student initiatives spreading across the country in support of the legislation for a Department of Peace. Students and youth have been organizing, educating, and lobbying in support of a Department of Peace in Vermont, New Jersey, Minnesota, California, and in Massachusetts- where the first official Student Peace Alliance chapter was formed at Brandeis University. The Student Peace Alliance is currently active on 15 campuses. The Student Peace Alliance is a youth embodiment of what is at the very heart of this emerging movement, virtue and justice.
About Us
Students and youth in our country and abroad are drastically affected by violence. The impact of violence is far from discrete. As it seeps through the media into our homes, communities, and our streets, it is directly tapping everyday lives. While we recognize the inspiring effect of programs worldwide, we believe that these peaceful nonviolent initiatives must be thoroughly researched, funded, and articulated at the national level.
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PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN
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Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr and anyone who wants PEACE.
About me:
DEPARTMENT OF PEACE IS NOT ANTI-WAR, WE ARE NOT ANTI-ANYTHING.
PLEASE GO TO WWW.THEGIFTOFPEACE.ORG TO LEARN ABOUT THE PLAY THAT WILL TOUR ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
Here is a little about our grassroots campaign. There is currently a bill before The House of Representatives (BILL #808) to establish a United States Department of Peace. This historic measure will augment our current problem-solving modalities, providing practical, nonviolent solutions to the problems of domestic and international conflict.
The legislation will pass from bill to law under one condition: that a wave of citizen interest rise up from the American people and make itself heard in the halls of Congress.
During the 20th Century, over 100 million people lost their lives to war -- most of whom were non-combatants. Now, at the dawn of the 21st century, the extent and current speed of nuclear proliferation makes the achievement of non-violent alternatives to war the most urgent need of the human race.
A Department of Peace will work to:
-- Provide much-needed assistance to efforts by city, county, and state governments in coordinating existing programs; as well as develop new programs based on best practices nationally
-- Teach violence prevention and mediation to America's school children
-- Effectively treat and dismantle gang psychology
-- Rehabilitate the prison population
-- Build peace-making efforts among conflicting cultures both here and abroad
-- Support our military with complementary approaches to peace-building.
-- Create and administer a U.S. Peace Academy, acting as a sister organization to the U.S. Military Academy.
Join today. Please visit WWW.THEPEACEALLIANCE.ORG
Who I'd like to meet: Please watch this beautiful music video about peace...It is called "HOPE IS ALIVE"...my wonderfully talented friend,DYLAN PRICE, wrote this...I am also in the video...I am in a purple shirt.
Click on this link to see what district your in and then you can email your district leader and get involved.
www.webdataresources.com/peacealliance
Welcome!
The Peace Alliance educates and inspires thousands throughout the country with the knowledge, skill and enthusiasm to become powerful citizen activists on behalf of the Department of Peace legislation. Our campaign has citizen organizers working in all 50 states. Local activists are mobilizing a mighty wave of momentum by working with their members of congress, writing editorials, doing local radio and TV interviews, organizing local talks and trainings, getting city council endorsements, visiting with Police Chiefs, Fire Chiefs, Military Officials, Prison Officials, Directors of Abuse Shelters, School Boards, etc. to share and discuss how a Department of Peace would benefit their community.
In this section, learn how to become an effective advocate for this legislation in your community.
Three key areas are:
1. Send an email/fax and call your representatives in congress now.
2. Join or start a local team effort in your congressional district.
3. Work with your members of congress.
Join the effort. Create a Department of Peace.
www.thepeacealliance.org
Aloha from Alana and Joshua! I saw you were on line and wanted to stop by to say BLESSINGS FROM MAUI! The picture above is Joshua on drums and myself playing didgeridoo with the Manao Radio Orchestra . We are both wishing you the warmest Aloha's!
If there is to be peace in the world, There must be peace in the nations. If there is to be peace in the nations, There must be peace in the cities. If there is to be peace in the cities, There must be peace between neighbors. If there is to be peace between neighbors, There must be peace in the home. If there is to be peace in the home, There must be peace in the heart. Lao Tzu
Happy birthday too America on your and my 4th of July
"....my new video, “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE 2008”, from the Album “Think Big” is ready for it look on my page. I producing this video clip with spectacluar films of Greenpeace Germany e.V. and I am wrote this song , not only because I have children, but also because peace in the world will never have a rest ….. because music is the best language world-wide
"....my new single, “GIVE PEACE A CHANCE 2008”, from the Album “Think Big” will be released in the United States on July 9, 2008. I producing this video clip with spectacluar films of Greenpeace Germany e.V. and I am wrote this song , not only because I have children, but also because peace in the world will never have a rest ….. because music is the best language world-wide
We, the humankind, should always keep in mind that, united we stand and prosper, but divided, we have been falling for many, many years. - Let us learn how to unite and work together, let us learn how to transform the information offered on our website, into action, in order to solve humanity’s major problems, One Problem, at a time. - Ranking number 1, on top of our list of major problems obviously is the Global Warming.
We must also keep in mind that silence solves nothing, it never has, and it never will. Our silence will encourage more violence and corruption at all levels of society, all over the world, and helps to defeat and silence the peaceful ethical voices of reason and common sense. - It is our civic duty and moral obligation, to get involved and never be silent, to solve our many problems, by simply casting the light of truth and exposing the source of the problem, followed by enlightening educational measures to solve the problem through a peaceful conflict resolution.
There are only 2 ways of spreading the light of truth and hope, either to be the source of light, truth and hope, The Projector, or be The Mirror, that spreads and reflects the light of truth and hope to others, which one are you? - Next time you see the angelic smile of sweet little angels, our children, running around, stop and think for just 1 minute, think about what kind of a polluted Home, Planet Earth we are leaving behind for them.
Please visit The Tree Huggers of America’s website and learn about what we can all do, free of charge, right now, together to ensure a sustainable green future.
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