Making the Most of STRYVE Online
What is the purpose of STRYVE Online? | What is available on STRYVE Online? | Who can use STRYVE Online? | How can you make the best use of STRYVE Online? | What are the benefits of using STRYVE Online?
What is the purpose of STRYVE Online?
STRYVE, or Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere, is a national initiative to prevent youth violence before it starts among young people ages 10 to 24. A cornerstone of this public health initiative is STRYVE Online, an online, interactive youth violence prevention resource center. Designed to help your community prevent youth violence before it starts, the site offers an up-to-date set of tools to plan, carry out, and evaluate sustainable youth violence prevention strategies that are based upon the best available evidence.
What is available on STRYVE Online?
Training: STRYVE Online Training, which
includes interactive training modules on key concepts about youth violence prevention.
Resources: Comprehensive collection
of state-of-the-art resources on the public health approach to youth violence prevention.
STRYVE Online gives you instant access to the most up-to-date data; research documents;
educational materials; and policies, programs, and practices based upon the best
available evidence.
Take Action:
Customized online workspace your community can use to build a coalition of community
partners and work together to prevent youth violence. Take Action guides your coalition
in developing a comprehensive strategic plan to prevent youth violence in your community,
implementing the plan, monitoring your progress, and evaluating the impact of your
efforts. This component of STRYVE Online includes networking and collaboration tools
to connect individuals, groups, and organizations within your community, and to
connect your coalition of partners to other communities who are working to prevent
youth violence.
Who can use STRYVE Online?
Any individual, group, or organization can use STRYVE Online. However, the site is primarily designed to promote, facilitate, and support community-level action that stops youth violence before it starts. Consequently, the most frequent users of the STRYVE Online are coalitions who partner to prevent youth violence in their community—neighborhood, town or township, city, county, parish, or Tribe. These coalitions will likely include a community’s leaders, decision makers, and policy makers as well as residents and representatives from all sectors of the community.
How can you make the best use of STRYVE Online?
First, complete the interactive Online Training. This training gives the foundation for understanding youth violence and how to prevent it before it starts. Next, explore the wealth of Resources and Organizations. Then you can:
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Create a single account for your community in the Take Action component of STRYVE Online and set up your community’s customized workspace. You will find instructions for completing this process in the Take Action section.
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Build a coalition of community partners to work together to prevent youth violence in your community. You will find guidelines for effectively establishing and maintaining a coalition in the Take Action section of STRYVE Online.
What are the benefits of using STRYVE Online?
Your community will:
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Learn what youth violence is and how to prevent it before it starts.
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Have access to the information, tools, and workspaces needed to strategically plan, implement, and evaluate youth violence prevention efforts.
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Establish a customized workspace where community partners can work together to prevent youth violence.
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Network with other communities to share your successes and learn what is working in other communities to stop youth violence before it starts.
