Defending Childhood: Recommendations Of The U.S. Attorney General’s National Task Force On Children Exposed To Violence

January 10, 2013
In January 2013,the Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence released a report listing its recommendations for ways the United States can prevent, reduce, and treat children’s exposure to violence. The task force was formed at the request of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Recommendations were organized into five sections: 1) ending the epidemic of children exposed to violence; 2) identifying children exposed to violence; 3) treatment and healing of exposure to violence; 4) creating safe and nurturing homes; 5) communities rising up out of violence; and 6) rethinking our . . .