by Sean Hedden The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention is a yearly conference that brings together community leaders and experts from all over to discuss and collaborate on effective solutions to preventing youth violence. Durable Collaboration: The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention is a report created with support from the Office of Juvenile… Continue reading NSV Highlight on: Durable Collaboration: The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention
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NSV Highlight on: kidsdata.org
by Sean Hedden NoSchoolViolence.org believes that by combining database applications with social science research we can uncover hidden patterns and behaviors underlying school and adolescent violence. Organizations like kidsdata.org, from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, “promotes the health and well being of children in California by providing an easy to use resource that offers… Continue reading NSV Highlight on: kidsdata.org
NSV Highlight on: Preventviolence.org
by Sean Hedden While researching different websites that help prevent youth violence, I found an archive that contains a decade worth of materials produced by The California Wellness Foundation and i.e. communications, LLC . This material supported a Violence Prevention Initiative from 1994 to 2004. This archive can help community organizers and youth violence prevention advocates understand… Continue reading NSV Highlight on: Preventviolence.org
Analyzing the Unthinkable-a Statistical Approach to Preventing Youth Violence
“If we could confidently predict which youth would be prone to commit violent acts and at which stage in their development such delinquency was most likely to erupt, it would significantly strengthen our efforts to prevent juvenile violence.” –John J. Wilson I was 17 years old during the shootings in Red Lake, Minnesota—one year older than… Continue reading Analyzing the Unthinkable-a Statistical Approach to Preventing Youth Violence
CDC Creates a New Division of Violence Prevention
In a new section on violence prevention, the CDC (The Center for Disease Control) offers a concise assessment of school violence prevention methods. The CDC treats school violence as a public health problem in order to provide prevention approaches. Like any other public health problem, school violence can be prevented before it starts. The organization… Continue reading CDC Creates a New Division of Violence Prevention
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