d hospitals and everyone would participate at one point in time or another. Classes in elementary school would teach aggression control techniques, how to express your emotions in a positive way, and other social skills needed by functional adults. In high school parenting classes would be taught. At the hospitals every person who is giving or gave birth would be required to watch a video on child development. The skills and knowledge taught in these classes would counter-act the messages of violence taught in the media and the world at large. New parents would know what to expect from their children as they develop and with the parenting sills they learned in school they would be able to handle and situations that might arise. As a result, they would be less likely to rely on coping mechanisms and parenting practices that were abusive or neglectful. The number of abusive parents would then decline.While the universal treatment programs are implemented we must train teachers to become more competent in recognizing the signs of abuse and neglect. Teachers would also be instructed in cultural competency to insure that they would not misinterpret cultural practices as abuse. This would give us a better chance of finding victims and getting them the help that they need. Another aspect of the universal treatment program is the fostering of a trust-based relationship between the students and the teachers. During the process of teaching children how to deal with emotions a more open relationship should develop. This open relationship would provide a person that children could confide in about stuff that is happening to them. Each school would have a number of social workers assigned to it based on its student population. Once a teacher was alerted to a possible case of abuse or neglect they would take their findings to the social worker. It would then become the social workers responsibility to alert child protective services an...
