Youth Violence: Links
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ACT—Adults and
Children Together—Against Violence This violence prevention campaign focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach children age 8 or younger. It prevents violence by providing young children with positive role models and supportive environments that teach nonviolent problem solving.
The American Psychological Association and MTV are encouraging young people to become proactive in identifying the warning signs of violent behavior in themselves and their peers.
Center for the
Prevention of School Violence The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource and think tank for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development. The Center provides information and technical assistance to any and all stakeholders involved with safe schools and youth development.
The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence works from a multidisciplinary platform on violence to bridge gaps between the research community, practitioners, and policy makers. An Information House collects research literature on the causes and prevention of violence and provides direct information. In 1996, the Center initiated a project to identify violence prevention programs that met high scientific standards of program effectiveness and could provide the foundation for developing a national violence prevention initiative. The results, Blueprints, describe 11 practical and effective violence prevention programs which have effectively reduced adolescent violent crime, aggression, delinquency, and substance abuse. Another 18 programs have been identified as promising programs.
Children’s
Defense Fund The goal of Children’s Defense Fund’s Education and Youth Development Division is to give every child a safe start in life. The Division does so by identifying and promoting programs and policies that keep children out of trouble, protect them from violence, and provide them with a safe and productive learning environment.
Children’s
Safety Network The Children’s Safety Network provides resources and technical assistance to maternal and child health agencies and organizations seeking to reduce unintentional injuries and violence toward children and adolescents. This is one of four Children's Safety Network Resource Centers funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Choices for
Youth: A Public Education Campaign to Prevent Violence Against Youth The goal of this public education campaign is to inform policy makers, opinion leaders, and the general public about the need to increase resources for youth violence prevention.
Community
Toolbox The Tool Box provides more than 6,000 pages of practical skill-building information on over 250 topics. Each topic includes step-by-step instructions, examples, checklists, and related resources.
Connect for Kids
(formerly known as Kids Campaign)
Connect for Kids uses the Internet to give adults the tools and information they need to improve the lives of children, youth, and families. This site presents issues relating to crime and youth violence.
Division of
Adolescent and School Health (DASH) DASH strives to prevent the most serious health risk behaviors among children, adolescents, and young adults. DASH offers publications and information on preventing violence in schools including: The School Health Index and Improving the Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities.
Family Education
Network This website provides parents and teachers with information and resources on coping with school violence.
Institute for Juvenile Research University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Psychiatry 912 South Wood Street Chicago, IL 60612 (312) 996-7383 www.psych.uic.edu/news/ijr.htm For nearly a century, the Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) has been a leading force in providing a broad range of innovative mental health services to children, adolescents, and their families. IJR also provides rich grounds for research in prevention and intervention and offers and clinical experiences for trainees in the fields of child psychiatry and child psychology.
Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence
230 Auditorium Building Phone: (330) 672-7917 http://dept.kent.edu/violence/ The Institute for the Study and Prevention of Violence (ISPV) at Kent State University promotes interdisciplinary research into the causes and prevention of violence, engages in the design and evaluation of community-based programs for violence prevention, and fulfills its commitment to the multidisciplinary training of teachers, law enforcement personnel, and other professionals on the principles and practices related to violence prevention. The ISPV seeks to bridge the gap between science and practice by informing the public about violence prevention policies.
Keep Schools
Safe A project of the National Association of Attorney Generals and the National School Boards Association, Keep Schools Safe helps communities develop safe schools and provides current information on successful programs. National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence CDC funds eight National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence to foster efforts between university researchers and communities that address the problem of youth violence. The Centers’ primary objectives include the following: partner with community agencies to develop and monitor a community-wide youth violence surveillance system; conduct risk and protective factor research in youth violence; conduct efficacy and effectiveness trials in the community; develop collaborations involving cross-disciplinary scholars and practitioners; provide training in violence prevention; and identify, engage, or partner with representatives from diverse local organizations to formulate community-based plans for violence prevention. Additional information is available on-line www.cdc.gov/ncipc/res-opps/ACE/ace.htm.
National
Alliance for Safe Schools This website promotes the National Alliance for Safe Schools and its central goal: to make schools’ educational environments safe and orderly.
National Archive
of Criminal Justice Data The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data facilitates and encourages research in criminal justice. It does so by preserving and sharing data resources and providing specialized training in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.
National Center
for Suicide Prevention Training
The National
Center for Suicide Prevention Training provides educational
resources to help public officials, service providers, and
community-based coalitions develop effective suicide prevention
programs and policies.
National Crime
Prevention Council The National Crime Prevention Council is a private, nonprofit, and tax-exempt organization with a mission to prevent crime and build safer, more caring communities.
National
Criminal Justice Reference Service This service offers an extensive source of information on criminal and juvenile justice, providing a collection of clearinghouses supporting all bureaus of the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center.
National Mental
Health and Education Center This public service program of the National Association of School Psychologists provides resources for safe-school programs and crisis response and offers information on current issues and programs.
National School
Safety Center The Center provides training materials on school crime prevention and safe-school planning to educators, law enforcers, and other professionals who work with youth. Educational information is also provided for parents.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC)
PO Box 10809 Phone: 1-866-723-3968 NYVPRC, developed by CDC in partnership with 10 other federal agencies, is a gateway for professionals, parents, teens, and others interested in obtaining comprehensive, current information about youth violence and suicide prevention.
RAND Corporation The mission of RAND’s Criminal Justice Program is to minimize the level of harm to U.S. residents associated with criminal violence, theft, illegal drug use, and any policies or programs intended to lessen these problems.
Youth and
Violence: Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health: Connecting the Dots
to Prevent Violence
Youth Violence:
A Report of the Surgeon General This report, the first Surgeon General’s report on youth violence in the United States, summarizes an extensive body of research. It clarifies trends in youth violence, identifies risk factors, and reviews the effectiveness of specific prevention strategies.
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