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CARE Task Force, North Quabbin Community Coalition
The North Quabbin Community Coalition’s C.A.R.E.
(Comprehensive Assault Reduction Effort) Task Force
was formed in October of 2002 in response to a multi-year
study of assault within the region. The report supported
with hard data that the rural North Quabbin area experienced
an inordinate level of violence. Three specific areas
within the report were to be the focus of the Task
Force: Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Youth
Violence. For the past year, the group has been working
on all three of these areas. The Pilot project of the
Massachusetts Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership
was a perfect fit for the goals of the existing group.
The North Quabbin Community Coalition has a twenty-year
history of hosting community-driven efforts and has
been successful in creating many sustainable, local
initiatives.
The CARE Task Force meetings are held at the Patch office at 423 Main Street,
Athol on the first Monday of each month from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Coalition
is located at 10 School Street, Athol. For more information, please call (978)
249-3703, or e-mail info@nqcc.org.
Gloucester Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership
The Gloucester Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership
(GCSAPP) is a collaborative whose mission is to prevent
child sexual abuse by engaging adults and the community
in effective perpetration prevention efforts in the
city of Gloucester.
Gloucester Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership
evolved from the Coalition for the Prevention of Domestic
Violence, which is an active collaborative whose goal
is to ensure that Gloucester is a domestic violence
free zone. Gloucester has been selected by the Massachusetts
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Partnership (MCSAPP)
as one of three communities in Massachusetts to pilot
promising prevention models. MCSAPP will oversee implementation
of this project that originated from the federal Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National
Center for Injury Prevention and Control. Massachusetts
Citizens for Children (MCC) is the lead agency for
the state partnership, and Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (MSPCC) is the
evaluator for the outcomes. For more information, please
call Barbara St. Pierre at (978) 281-2400 x 270.
Newton Partnership to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
The Newton Partnership to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
began through the collaborative efforts of the Boston
Area Rape Crisis Center, the Newton Community Service
Center's Child Assault Prevention Program, and the
Burr Cooperative Nursery School. The Newton Partnership
is a public/private collaboration, whose members include
parents, abuse prevention specialists, social workers,
early childhood educators, law enforcement, clergy,
the mayor's office, the department of public health,
and many other individuals and organizations. The Newton
Partnership's mission is to prevent child sexual abuse
by engaging adults and communities in effective perpetration
prevention efforts in the city of Newton. Newton has
a strong history of working to prevent child sexual
assault through the Child Assault Prevention Program
at the Newton Community Service Center. The Newton
Partnership builds on that work, and brings together
the expertise and resources of the Boston Area Rape
Crisis Center and all of the local members to expand
efforts to include innovative perpetration prevention
models. For more information, please call Dawn at (617)
492-8306 x 31.
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