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II. Video Project
This project will provide televisions and DVD players for the waiting rooms in Cook County delinquency court, which would play a looped video on violence prevention. Approximately 350 kids per day—the majority of whom are boys—visit delinquency court. For the one–time cost of 13 televisions with DVD players we expect to reach 40,000 kids per year. The project has the added benefit of reaching kids who are rarely in schools and thus do not participate in school–based programs. Judge Curtis Heaston, the presiding judge of the Juvenile Justice Division of the Juvenile Justice and Child Protection Department in Cook County, is delighted to work with the ABA on this plan. Funding support is provided by DLA Piper

Phase II of the project will identify and make available paper resource materials to have available in the waiting rooms. The ABA's Commission on Domestic Violence and the Just the Beginning Foundation have a number of resources that can be made available.