To order cards, please call 800-843-6356

This series of eight parent education 'tip' cards is designed to help physicians educate their patients (and the parents of pediatric age patients) about youth and teen violence prevention.

The eight cards contained in the kit, and the suggested age category of interest are as follows:

For toddlers:
Raise Your Child with Praise
Time Out!

For school-age children:
Bullying

For teens:
Street Violence
Teen Dating Violence - What Parents Need to Know

For all ages:
When Children Witness Violence In the Home
Pulling the Plug on TV Violence
Some Myths and Facts About Violence 

To order cards, please call 800-843-6356

The tip cards originated at The Floating Hospital for Children and New England Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine and were developed by the Massachusetts Medical Society's Committee on Violence. The tip cards represent the latest in a series of efforts by the Massachusetts Medical Society to promote health by providing concise and useful primary and secondary prevention-oriented patient education materials to physicians.

In creating these cards, input was received from experts in the topic areas of each card, practicing physicians, and parents. Each card, written at literacy level appropriate to the general public, is brief, practical and prevention-focused.

The tip cards are specifically designed with sensitivity to the time issues that physicians face when seeing patients in the office setting. They facilitate compliance with HEDIS guidelines in the areas of anticipatory guidance and adolescent counselingand with recent policy statements by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Most of the cards can be used simply by having the physician or other health care professional recommend the approach to the parent, hand out the card, and suggest appropriate follow-up. However,it is suggested that the card concerning children who witness domestic violence be left in the exam room, or other discrete location so that concerned parents may take the information without embarrassment.

This project is co-sponsored by the Massachusetts Chapter, American Academy of Pediatrics. 

For more information about this project, contact the Massachusetts Medical Society, Department of Public Health and Education at 1-800-322-2303, ext. 7373.