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ECCAO© : Project Goals & Objectives

As parents/caregivers of today’s youth, we know that it is your dream for your children to become the best they can be in life.  As it is your dream, it is ECCAO’s dream as well.  Stated below are the goals and objectives that we hope to achieve in order to find success in our mission to eliminate youth violence.  We believe that with collaborative efforts the following list of goals and objectives are attainable.

  1. Design a prevention intervention program suitable for each participating school district. (This phase is now complete.)
  2. Encourage and train school administrators and teachers to design curriculum, teaching methods, and school procedures in such a way that, in the process of learning the basic academic skills, children also learn interpersonal and pro-social skills. Teachers will encourage children to depend on each other to accomplish school tasks. (This phase is in progress with over 200 teachers and school staff trained)
  3. Provide workshops for parents, offering information on the roles of temperament and attachment relationships in building adaptive social relationships. In addition, parents will participate in the Becoming a Love & Logic Parent® program, developed by Jim Fay, Charles Fay, Ph.D., and Foster W. Cline, M.D. of the Love & Logic Institute in Golden, Colorado.  (approximately 150 parents completed the Love & Logic course in 2003-Another course is scheduled for spring 2008)
  4. Each child participating in the ECCAO program will be tracked from the time he or she enters school in kindergarten through the 12th grade. It is expected that this comprehensive socialization of kindergarten grade children will produce a group of students heading into the upper grades who are less violent and more skilled in resolving conflict in constructive ways. 
  5. Children will also be observed in their home environment to see if the program not only influences the behaviors in the school but also in the home. 
  6. Outcome data will periodically be compared to data from a “control” group of kindergarten and 1st grade children not participating in the ECCAO program.
  7. A long-term assessment of costs to schools, families, and communities for special services related to learning problems, psychological adjustment, and juvenile justice system involvement will be carried out.