Members of the audience will be invited to talk with a panel of discussants, to include parents, students, and representatives of the San Francisco schools and the Department of Public Health. Mount Zion is hosting the teleconference as part of its long-standing collaboration on violence prevention with groups in San Francisco and particularly in the hospital's Western Addition neighborhood. Just as we promote the use of child car seats or seat belts and bicycle helmets, many physicians see violence as a public health problem of epidemic proportion which would be best addressed through prevention rather than reacting after the fact. The program has several components. A parent education series emphasizes building self-esteem in children and positive discipline techniques with a focus on alternatives to physical punishment.
Violence is pervasive in society today.
The Sept. 24 teleconference, transmitted by satellite by the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications, is the second of six training sessions planned over the next three years to help local communities develop violence prevention programs. All rights reserved. Please direct all comments and questions to the Daybreak Editor . Please contact the UCSF Web Developer for questions of a technical nature.