SIOUX CITY PROJECT

Sioux City is the hometown of the Waitt family and the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention. We have engaged in violence prevention activities through the Waitt Family Foundation since 1994.

The Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention will ramp up these efforts in a five-year initiative we call "The Sioux City Project."

Over the next five years we will:

• Increase the number of adults who are helping youth learn that violence against women is wrong.
• Increase the number of youth who believe violence and bullying are wrong.
• Increase the number of youth who take action against violence and bullying.
• Decrease the number of violence and bullying-related incidents in schools.

Our strategies:

• Engage youth and school staff in violence prevention activities.
• Provide youth with social supports and networks that support non-violence.
• Mobilize the Sioux City community to become involved in the campaign.

Our tactics:

• Engage public middle and high schools in ongoing violence prevention programming using Mentors in Violence Prevention and Coaching Boys Into Men.
• Develop and conduct public education campaigns to maximize exposure to our violence prevention message.
• Engage minority outreach workers to ensure that all youth are reached with our violence prevention message.
• Train outreach, school-based mental health workers, and school staff to identify and treat children for the effects of witnessing or being exposed to violence.
• Engage diverse community sectors and networks in supporting violence prevention activities.
• Link Sioux City Project activities to broader national/international violence prevention campaigns supported by the Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention.
  

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