Youth Violence Prevention Links

Model Programs & Best Practices

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/model/overview.html

Description: CSPV provides informed assistance to groups committed to understanding and preventing violence, particularly adolescent violence. The organization works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers.

Information Available: Model program summaries, backgrounds, video segments with program description and contact information. The Web site also includes promising programs, newsletters, publications, an Information House and technical assistance.

Partnerships Against Violence Network (PAVNET)
www.pavnet.org

Description: PAVNET offers information from seven different U.S. departments (Education, Agriculture, Labor, Justice, Defense, Health & Human Services and Housing & Urban Development) on violence and youth at risk.

Information Available: Promising programs in the areas of community violence, family violence, substance abuse, victims and youth violence; research database; program curricula; conferences; teaching materials; technical assistance and other resources.

Promising Practices Network (PPN)
www.promisingpractices.net/

Description: The PPN Web site highlights programs and practices that credible research indicates are effective in improving outcomes for children, youth, and families. This site provides useful information for decisionmakers, practitioners and program funders who must choose among many possibilities for improving results for children, youth, and families.

Information Available: Proven and promising programs, research briefs and strengthening service delivery.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
nrepp.samhsa.gov/

Description: SAMHSA provides information on health problems related to the use and abuse of drugs and alcohol, substance abuse treatment, the mental health condition of the population and administers and evaluates Federal block grants to the states. The following divisions of SAMHSA offer information relevant to substance abuse.

Information Available: SAMHSA’s National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable database of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers.

Federal Government:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control,
Division of Violence Prevention
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

Description: The CDC has focused on violence prevention since the early 1980s, when efforts included the prevention of youth violence, suicide and suicide attempts. The Division of Violence Prevention has the following priority areas: 1) child maltreatment, 2) intimate partner and sexual violence, 3) suicide and 4) youth violence.

Information Available: Violence statistics and data, links to both intramural and extramural projects and activities to prevent violence, fact sheets, publications, funding opportunities and further references.

MEDLINEplus-Health Information
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/teenviolence.html

Description: MEDLINEplus, sponsored by the National Library of Medicine, includes a vast amount of health information on over 600 diseases and conditions. The site offers authoritative, up to date and appropriate health information for both health professionals and consumers.

Information Available: Latest news concerning teen violence, general overviews, diagnosis and symptoms, prevention and screening, research, associated conditions and aspects, statistics and links to other MEDLINE related health topics.

Office of the Surgeon General
www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence

Description: The Office of the Surgeon General, under the direction of the Surgeon General, oversees the 6,000-member Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service and provides support for the Surgeon General in the accomplishment of his other duties. The Office is part of the Office of Public Health and Science, Office of the Secretary and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Information Available: Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General, community forum reports, resources and links.

National Organizations:

Center for the Prevention of School Violence (CPSV)
www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv

Description: Established in 1993 as one of the nation's first state school safety centers, the CPSV serves as a resource center and "think tank" for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development. The Center focuses on ensuring that schools function so that every student who attends does so in environments that are safe and secure, free of fear and conducive to learning.

Information Available: Alternative learning resources; videos and plays; facilities, physical design and the application of technology to enhance school safety; newsletters; research briefs; Journal on School Violence; statistics; funding opportunities; parent resources; school violence prevention; safe school planning; crisis prevention and management; critical incident response; resources for school counselors; student involvement; articles and additional links.

Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence
www.hamfish.org

Description: The Hamilton Fish Institute on School and Community Violence works to inform decision-making by policymakers, educators, researchers and other stakeholders and to support schools by providing research and synthesis of information so that schools are made safe for high achievement.

Information Available: Safe schools/healthy students action center, newsletter, chronology of gun violence, program databases, school violence measures, state-level data and trends, a comprehensive framework, factors and causes, community involvement, surveys, videos, events and links.

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC)
www.safeyouth.org

Description: The NYVPRC was established as a central source of information on violence prevention and intervention programs. The resource center resulted from collaboration between the CDC and other federal agencies and functions as a user-friendly, single point of access to federal information on youth violence and suicide.

Information Available: Prevention and intervention programs; A-Z directory of topics; calendar of events; specifics for parents and guardians, professionals and teens; publications; research; statistics and current news.

Violence Policy Center (VPC)
www.vpc.org

Description: The VPC strives to prevent firearms violence through research, education and advocacy. As a gun control think tank, the VPC analyzes a wide range of current firearm issues and provides information to policymakers, journalists, public health professionals, grassroots activists and members of the general public.

Information Available: Topical interests including firearms violence, federal policy issues, state policy issues and youth and firearms violence; legislative efforts; latest reports; firearm laws; publications; NRA information; links and a VPC email action center.