The Violence Prevention Alliance is now located at the Centre for Public Safety and Justice, Mona School of Business, Alister McIntyre Building, 9 Ring Road, UWI, Mona, Kingston 7.
The Violence Prevention Alliance (VPA) is a network of government, non government, private and community based organisations working together to prevent violence in Jamaica. No country or community is untouched by violence and the VPA, through a partnership approach, is striving to improve the quality of life for every citizen by eradicating violence in Jamaica. The VPA believes that violence is preventable and by working together it is possible to make communities safe for everyone.
The momentum towards a systematic and coordinated approach to violence prevention was catalyzed by the World Health Organization’s World Report on Violence Prevention. The Global VPA was launched in January 2004. The VPA in Jamaica was launched in November 2004.
Mission Statement: to create a violence - free and safe Jamaica. All communications activity should underpin this Mission Statement.
Objectives:
- To support the promotion of primary prevention of violence, integrated community development and public education.
- To increase collaboration and exchange of information between organizations on violence prevention.
- To support the implementation and monitoring of existing programmes and to lobby for national action plans for violence prevention.
- To lobby for the integration of violence prevention into social and educational policies, thereby enhancing the promotion of gender and social equality.
- To promote the safe community concept.
- To facilitate data analysis and application in order to identify and promote best practice.
- To support the strengthening of systems/services for victims of violence.
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