Youth Violence Prevention Links  

Model Programs and Practices


Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV)
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/

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.


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 decision makers, 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.


The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) 

www.repp.samhsa.gov

Description: The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), is a searchable database of reviewed and rated interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental and substance use disorders. Information in the database includes descriptive information about the intervention and its targeted outcomes, quality of research and readiness for dissemination ratings, a list of studies and materials submitted for review, and contact information for the intervention developer.

Information Available: Summaries and guidance for identified interventions.


National Organizations


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.

 

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.


Missouri Resources


Missouri Center for Safe Schools
http://education.umkc.edu/safe-school/

Description: The Missouri Center for Safe Schools promotes safe and orderly schools by providing assistance in the identification of resources and by facilitating networking of schools across Missouri as they develop effective ways of dealing with violence and other safety related problems. The Missouri Center for Safe Schools (MCSS) was established July 1995 within the School of Education of the University of Missouri-Kansas City under a grant from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE). The Center provides workshops for adults and directly instructs students in conflict resolution, peer mediation, crisis management, and other aspects of school safety. (**Please note: As of August 2009, the Center for Safe Schools is slated to close in January 2010 due to budget cuts. The web site is active as of this time).

Information Available: Resources; educational tools; models and programs; consultation; school safety planning; newsletters; state specific data.


Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (MCADSV)

http://www.mocadsv.org/

Description: MCADSV is a statewide membership coalition of organizations and individuals working to end violence against women and their children through direct services and social and systemic change. The Coalition also serves as a voice for programs at the state and national levels to advocate for women and their children, and to improve funding sources, public policy, systems and responses to domestic and sexual violence.

Information Available: Educational resources; resource directory for direct services; public policy; assistance for service providers; research and data.

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