The Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc. (MPY), a longtime partner of JGPR, has created a free 15-minute video about how to talk to children about violent crime. In this video, Margie Daniels, M.Ed., LICSW, Executive Director of Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth and Dr. Nancy Rappaport, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School offer tips on how to talk to children after exposure to violent events.
The video can be viewed here:
We applaud MPY and Harvard Med for partnering to create this timely and important video. We hope by sharing and making this video available we can provide some insight and tips on how to speak to children about this difficult topic.
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Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that provides training, fosters collaboration, and develops programming to increase the health and safety of students. MPY is committed to bringing cutting-edge information and high-quality trainings to constituents and endeavors to provide solution-oriented, community-based, multi-disciplinary approaches to reducing and ideally eliminating risky behaviors for youth.
Massachusetts Partnerships for Youth is governed by a Board of Directors made up of school superintendents, police and fire chiefs, and other community leaders who work closely with MPY staff to deliver this mission.
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