VPA Jamaica

10 Point Plan

The VPA’s 10 point plan aims to address all the factors influencing crime, violence and their negative long term effects that affect our society, especially vulnerable groups. It includes an all hands on deck approach that focuses on crime prevention, child resiliency and safety, community unity, social re-engineering, violence injuries reduction, and a reduction in cost of care for injuries seen at hospitals across Jamaica.

Children

The VPA currently runs two child violence mitigation and resiliency programmes, these are; the Child Resiliency Programme and The Child Abuse Mitigation Project. While the Child Resiliency Programe is geared towards helping at risk youth attain a violent and crime free childhood, the Child Abuse Mitigation Programme helps those children who have been victims of violence seen at select hospitals across Jamaica.

Communities

The VPA’s Approach to Community safety and Crime Prevention focuses on three areas; asset mapping, stakeholder interventions and the creation of data driven policy, derived from spatial and statistical analysis of crime in affected communities.

Costs

The cost for community security and the treatment of violence related injuries (VRIs) is a significant burden to tax payers, and a hindrance to the development of Jamaica. The VPA along with its partners conduct cost of care surveys in majour hospitals across Jamaica. The survey results underline the circumstances that lead to VRIs, the treatment and care administered to VRI patients, and the cost of care for each VRI patient. This research also helps to develop informed interventions to aid in the reduction of VRIs and their associated costs.