Adolescent
Violence Prevention
Knowledge Path
January 2007
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General Resources
Introduction
This knowledge path about
adolescent violence prevention has been
compiled by the Maternal
and Child Health Library at
Georgetown University. The volume of
materials on this topic is vast and covers
many disciplines, including public health,
medicine, criminal justice, education,
and social services. This path offers
a selection of recent, high-quality resources
from these disciplines that measure,
document, and monitor the problem; identify
risk and protective factors; and report
on promising intervention strategies.
Separate sections identify resources
on specific aspects of adolescent violence
such as bullying, firearms, gangs, media
violence, school violence, and violent-crime
victimization. This knowledge path is
aimed at health professionals, policymakers,
educators, community activists, and families,
and it will be updated periodically.
Please refer to Knowledge
path: Domestic violence for
resources about dating violence among
adolescents and family violence involving
adolescents. Also see our knowledge
paths about children
and adolescents with emotional, behavioral,
and mental health challenges and Social and Emotional Development in Children and Adolescents.
Hotlines
- National
Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC).
Offers a hotline for information
and referrals to service providers
for victims of all types of crime.
Information is available in more
than 180 languages. The hotline
phone number is (800) 394-2255
(FYI-CALL) or (800) 211-7996 (TTY).
- SPEAK
UP.
Offers a hotline to anonymously
report a weapon threat at school.
SPEAK UP is a national campaign
by PAX.
The hotline phone number is
(866) 773-2587 (SPEAK-UP).
Overview
- See Youth
violence: Fact sheet, rev. ed. (2006)
by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
This fact sheet describes the problem
of adolescent violence in the United
States. It outlines the occurrence
and consequences of adolescent violence;
the groups at risk; and the risk
and protective factors in individuals,
families, peer groups, schools, and
communities. The fact sheet also
links to key resources for more information
about adolescent violence prevention.
Web Sites: A-Z
- ACT
-- Adults and Children Together
-- Against Violence.
Offers information, training and
education materials, and public
service announcements for this
violence-prevention project that
focuses on adults who raise, care
for, and teach infants and children
from birth though age 8. The program
is designed to prevent violence
by helping these adults to be positive
role models and to learn the skills
to teach children nonviolent ways
to resolve conflicts, deal with
frustration, and handle anger.
Some materials are available in
Spanish. ACT is supported in part
by the American
Psychological Association (APA).
- American
Academy of Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry (AACAP).
Offers a set of fact
sheets for
families in English, Spanish, and
several other languages on a variety
of parenting topics including bullying,
firearms, television violence,
and violent behavior.
- American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Contains violence
prevention resources that
include policy statements, patient-education
materials, and a bibliographic
database on
topics such as bullying, firearms,
and media violence. AAP
has also collaborated on the ASK
Campaign (Asking Saves Kids),
the Media
Matters Campaign,
and Health,
mental health and safety guidelines
for schools (2004).
- American
Medical Association (AMA).
Contains violence
prevention resources that
include physician guidelines, policy
statements, reports, program information,
and violence-prevention-related
links.
- American
Psychological Association (APA). Offers
a resource
page on
violence-related topics that include
risks for adolescent violence,
prevention strategies, adolescent
aggression, and media violence.
Publications include
Preventing violence:
Research and evidence-based intervention
strategies. (2005). See description
and ordering information for
this book.
- Center
for the Study and Prevention of
Violence (CSPV).
Provides publications, databases,
and program information to assist
with the development and evaluation
of effective violence prevention
programs. A set of fact
sheets focuses
on a range of topics including
school violence, bullying, gangs,
and firearms. CSPV is a research
center at the University of Colorado
at Boulder. Programs include
Blueprints
for Violence Prevention.
Contains information and materials
about model programs that have
been effective in reducing adolescent
violent crime, aggression, delinquency,
and substance use.
Also see Safe
Communities~Safe Schools (SCSS).
- Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC).
Contains information and resources
about preventing adolescent violence
in schools, homes, and communities.
Initiatives include
Guide
to Community Preventive Services:
Violence Prevention.
Contains recommendations for
population-based interventions
to reduce or prevent violence
by and against children and
adolescents. Also see the fact
sheet, Violence (2005)
by the Association
of State and Territorial Health
Officers (ASTHO),
which summarizes these findings
and recommendations.
National
Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (NCIPC).
Presents information and resources
about adolescent
violence that
include a fact sheet, data
systems,
program descriptions, and links
to resources and organizations
that can be helpful in planning
adolescent violence prevention
and education programs. Publications
and initiatives include
- Best
practices of youth violence
prevention: A sourcebook for
community action, rev. ed.
(2002). Also available in Spanish.
- CDCynergy:
Violence prevention edition.
(2006). This health communication
planning tool is designed to
help violence prevention program
planners conceptualize, plan,
and develop health-communication
programs about child abuse, intimate
partner violence, sexual violence,
and adolescent violence.
- Fatal
injuries among children by race
and ethnicity -- United States,
1999-2002.
(2007).
- Measuring
violence-related attitudes, behaviors,
and influences among youths:
A compendium of assessment tools,
2nd ed.
(2005).
- National
Academic Centers of Excellence
(ACE) on Youth Violence Prevention.
Describes 10 research centers
funded to work with community
members and many educational,
justice, and social work partners
to develop action plans, partnerships,
and priorities to prevent adolescent
violence in a local community.
- Preventing
youth violence: Program activities
guide.
(2005).
- School
associated violent deaths.
(2006). [Fact sheet].
Also see CDC's Healthy
Youth! Injury and Violence.
- Children's
Safety Network (CSN): National
Injury and Violence Prevention
Resource Center (NIVPRC).
Offers publications, news, and
conference information about adolescent
violence prevention. CSN provides
information, training, and assistance
to the maternal and child health
(MCH) community to reduce child
and adolescent injuries and violence.
A recent publication is
Injuries
and violence in rural areas:
Facts and resources from CSN.
(2006).
- Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Offers crime data and crime-prevention
resources on topics that include
violent crimes involving adolescents.
Publications include
2005
national gang threat assessment.
(2005).
Crime
in the United States, 2005.
(2006). Includes a table depicting
adolescent arrests by age and type
of crime.
- Fight
Crime: Invest in Kids.
Provides reports, policy recommendations,
program information, legislative
news, and advocacy tools about
crime-prevention topics, including
adolescent violence prevention.
This national anti-crime organization
is led by more than 3,000 law-enforcement
leaders and victims of violence.
Recent publications include
Detroit's
after-school choice: The prime
time for juvenile crime or youth
enrichment and achievement.
(2006).
From
America's front line against crime:
A school and youth violence prevention
plan, rev. ed.
(2006).
- Healthy
People 2010.
Describes this national health-promotion
and disease-prevention initiative
created by a broad coalition of
experts from many sectors to improve
the health of all Americans, eliminate
disparities in health, and improve
years and quality of healthy life. Healthy
People contains
467 objectives in 28 focus areas. Focus
area 15 presents
the adolescent violence prevention
agenda. Healthy
People 2010 provides
background information on the initiative;
the complete text (online and searchable), Healthy
People 2010: Understanding and
improving health, 2nd ed. (2000); data;
a list of the Healthy
People partners
and related sites; and other publications.
It is coordinated by the Office
of Disease Prevention and Health
Promotion (ODPHP).
Also see the HP2010
Information Access Project for
access to published literature
related to the Healthy
People 2010 objectives
about injury and violence prevention.
- MedlinePlus:
Teen Violence. Contains
a list of select, authoritative
health-information sources about
adolescent violence for families
and health professionals. Includes
links to overview articles, an
automatic search in PubMed, and
information about coping, diagnosis,
symptoms, prevention, screening,
and research. MedlinePlus is
a health-information service of
the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
- Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse
(MINCAVA).
Provides an electronic clearinghouse
of links to violence-related resources,
including published research, funding
sources, and individuals and organizations
that serve as resources. Bullying,
school violence, gangs, and firearms
are some of the adolescent violence
topics addressed. MINCAVA is located
at the University of Minnesota
School of Social Work.
- National
Adolescent Health Information Center
(NAHIC).
Offers fact sheets, policy briefs,
reports, and other materials about
adolescent health on topics that
include violence. NAHIC is based
at the University of California,
San Francisco. Recent publications
include
A
health profile of adolescent
and young adult males.
(2005). Topics include violence.
Improving
the health of adolescents and young
adults: A guide for states and
communities.
(2004). This guide extracts Healthy
People 2010 objectives
that are key to the health of adolescents
and young adults. These critical
health objectives address mortality,
unintentional injury, violence,
substance use and mental health,
reproductive health, and prevention
of chronic disease into adulthood.
Towards
meeting the needs of adolescents:
An assessment of federally funded
adolescent health programs and
initiatives within the Department
of Health and Human Services.
Content areas include violence.
Tracking
adolescent health policy: An annotated
list.
(2005). Content areas include violence.
Violence:
Adolescents and young adults.
(2007).
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS).
Contains grant and program information,
statistics, a bibliographic database,
and resource lists on juvenile
justice topics, including gangs,
gun violence, school violence,
and juvenile victims of crime.
NCJRS is a federally funded resource
focusing on criminal and juvenile
justice and drug control.
- National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH):
Children and Violence.
Contains publications and research
summaries about violence and its
effects on children and adolescents.
NIMH is part of the National
Institutes of Health (NIH).
Publications include
State-of-the-Science
conference statement: Preventing
violence and related health-risking
social behaviors in adolescents
-- October 13-15, 2004.
(2005). Also see the Agency
for Healthcare Research and
Quality report that
presents findings from a review
and analysis of longitudinal
risk factor research about adolescent
violence prevention conducted
in preparation for this conference.
- National
Mental Health Information Center.
Contains many publications about adolescent
violence prevention.
Some are available in Spanish.
Also presents information and materials
for two school violence prevention
programs, the Safe
Schools Healthy Students Campaign and
the CMHS
Enhancing Resilience Initiative,
and a parent-child communication
campaign called 15+
Make Time to Listen -- Take Time
to Talk,
which addresses topics such as
bullying. The center is a service
of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- National
Technical Assistance Center for
Children's Mental Health.
Offers program and conference information
and other resources about reforming
services and building systems of
care for children and adolescents
who have, or are at risk for, mental
health problems and their families.
Offers a matrix of
over 50 programs across the country
that focus on Asian American/Pacific
Islander adolescent development
and violence prevention. Also presents
a set
of briefs that
describe the work and successes
of 29 coalitions for adolescent
violence prevention. The center
is part of the Georgetown
University Center for Child and
Human Development (GUCCHD).
- National
Youth Violence Prevention Resource
Center.
Contains a wealth of information
about adolescent violence prevention
and intervention programs along
with publications, research, and
statistics for professionals and
families. Includes information
about and links to the National
Academic Centers of Excellence
on Youth Violence Prevention,
which were established by CDC to
address the injury and violence
prevention goals of Healthy
People 2010.
Also includes databases of adolescent
violence prevention materials and organizations,
an electronic guide to Spanish-language
resources,
and links to listservs
and electronic newsletters.
The center is a collaboration between
CDC and several federal partner
agencies working on adolescent
violence.
- Office
of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention (OJJDP).
Offers funding, conference, and
program information; statistics;
state contact lists; and publications,
including an electronic
newsletter.
Adolescent violence-related topics
include gangs, conflict resolution,
bullying, and school safety. OJJDP
is part of the Department
of Justice (DOJ).
Recent publications include
National
evaluation of the Title V community
prevention grants program.
(2006).
- Public/Private
Ventures (P/PV).
Offers program information about
its adolescent violence reduction
initiatives. P/PV is a national
nonprofit organization whose mission
is to improve the effectiveness
of social policies, programs, and
community initiatives, especially
as they affect adolescents and
young adults. Publications include
Alive
at 25: Reducing youth violence
through monitoring and support.
(2004).
- RESOURCE
Project.
Provides a range of tools for faculty
from a variety of disciplines to
use in enhancing the adolescent-health
training of public health students.
Resources include a 12-unit adolescent-health
curriculum. The violence
unit contains
a sample syllabus, recommended
readings, data sources, suggested
assignments, case studies, sample
presentations, and links to other
resources. The project is a collaborative
effort of the Public Policy Analysis
and Education Center for Middle
Childhood, Adolescent and Young
Adult Health and the Association
of Teachers of Maternal and Child
Health.
Additional Electronic
Publications
- Association
of State and Territorial Health Officers
(ASTHO), State
and Territorial Injury Prevention
Directors Association (STIPDA).
2006. Making
a difference: State injury and violence
prevention programs.
Atlanta, GA: State and Territorial
Injury Prevention Directors Association
(STIPDA). This compendium describes
the burden of injury and violence
and opportunities for prevention.
It offers examples of state injury
and violence prevention programs
from all 50 states.
- Chan
LS, Kipke MD, Schneir A, Iverson E,
Warf C, Limbos MA, Shekele P. 2004. Preventing
violence and related health-risking
social behaviors in adolescents.
Evidence Report/Technology Assessment:
Number 107. Rockville, MD: Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality.
A summary
of the report is
available. The report presents findings
from a review and analysis of longitudinal
risk factor research conducted in preparation
for a National
Institutes of Health-sponsored consensus
conference.
The report summarizes what is currently
known about preventing adolescent violence
and offers recommendations for future
research. The review identified the
roles of individual, family, school,
community, and peer influences as well
as interventional research to evaluate
prevention-intervention effectiveness.
- Cheng TL, Wright JL.
2005. Community-based
violence prevention for high risk youth:
Comprehensive final report.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University;
Washington, DC: Children's National
Medical Center. This report describes
a project assessing violence prevention
interventions provided to adolescent
victims of violence in hospital emergency
departments (ED) and after discharge.
- Jellinek M, Patel BP,
Froehle MC, eds. 2002. Bright
Futures in practice: Mental health.
(2 v.). Arlington, VA: National
Center for Education in Maternal and
Child Health (NCEMCH).
This book contains guidelines on mental
health promotion and substance use
prevention for infants, children, and
adolescents. It is designed to inform
primary care pediatric health professionals
about the essentials of mental health
promotion; to identify the support
that infants, children, and adolescents
need for good mental health; and to
assist in the development and implementation
of mental-health-promotion programs
and policies. A section is devoted
to violence perpetration and exposure
to violence in adolescence.
- Office
of the Surgeon General.
2001. Youth
violence: A report of the Surgeon
General.
Rockville, MD: Department
of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
This report examines the magnitude,
causes, and prevention of adolescent
violence from a public health perspective.
- Turner S, Fain T, MacDonald
J, Sehgal A, Imara J, Cotton F, Davies
D, Harris A. 2006. Los
Angeles County Juvenile Justice Crime
Prevention Act: Fiscal year 2004-2005
report.
Santa Monica, CA: RAND
Corporation.
This report to the California State
Legislature examines six outcome measures
for the Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention
Act program in Los Angeles County.
The report will be of interest to researchers,
policymakers, and health and social
services professionals concerned with
the effectiveness of intervention programs
for participating adolescents and those
involved in the juvenile justice system.
Databases
The databases listed below
are excellent tools for identifying data,
additional literature
and research,
and programs about
adolescent violence prevention. Many
of the entries below contain tips on
how to use the databases efficiently.
Please note that databases vary in how
terms should be entered; for example,
some require quotation marks and others
don't. Enter search phrases as shown
in bold below.
- Data
- Child
Trends DataBank.
Reports on national trends and
research on over 80 key indicators
of infant, child, and adolescent
well-being. Search by age or search
alphabetically by topic for data
briefs about adolescent violence
that include physical fighting;
students carrying weapons; adolescent
homicide; firearm death; and violent
crime victimization. Child Trends
is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
organization dedicated to improving
the lives of children and families
by providing research and data
to inform decision-making that
affects families.
- Data2010:
The Healthy People 2010 Database.
Contains the most recent monitoring
data for tracking Healthy
People 2010.
To obtain data about adolescent
violence prevention, click on the
field, Data by Focus Area. Under
the field, Select a Focus Area,
choose 15 - Injury and Violence
Prevention from the pop-up menu.
Next, click on the button for Include
Related Objectives From Other Focus
Areas in the Table. Click on the
Submit button. This data set is
provided by the National
Center for Health Statistics via CDC
Wonder.
- National
Center for Injury Prevention and
Control (NCIPC).
Offers several systems to capture
and present violence-related data:
Injury
Maps.
Presents an interactive mapping
system to create county-level
and state-level maps of age-adjusted,
injury-related mortality rates
for the United States and for
individual states.
National
Violent Death Reporting System
(NVDRS).
Pools data from state and local
health agencies that have gathered
detailed information from medical
examiners, coroners, police, crime
labs, and death certificates to
better depict the scope and nature
of violence.
WISQARS
(Web-based Injury Statistics Query
and Reporting System).
Presents an interactive database
system that provides customized
reports of injury mortality and
nonfatal injury for a wide range
of age groups.
- Title
V Information System (Title V IS).
Contains data from annual Title
V Block Grant applications and
reports submitted by all 59 U.S.
states and jurisdictions. To identify
information about adolescent violence
prevention, conduct two searches.
Select Measurement and Indicator
Data and go to the State Data section.
First, select State Priority Needs
Keyword Search and choose Keyword:
Intentional/Unintentional Injuries
and Population: Adolescents. Click
on Start Search. Next, select State
Performance Measures and click
on Search by Keyword/Population.
Select Keyword: Intentional/Unintentional
Injuries and Population: Adolescents.
Click on Start Search. Title V
IS is a service of the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
- Youth
Risk Behavior Surveillance System
(YRBSS): Youth Online.
Provides comprehensive results
from the YRBSS that can be viewed
by location (United States, state/territory,
or local) and health topic. Choose
Unintentional Injuries and Violence
and select a category under Violence
to view data about adolescent violence.
Categories can be compared online.
Youth Online is a service of CDC's Division
of Adolescent and School Health
(DASH).
- Also see the National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS) and
the National
Youth Gang Survey (NYGS).
- Literature
and Research Databases
- CAVNET
(Communities Against Violence Network).
Contains information about books,
reports, articles, court opinions,
Web sites, and other resources
in the areas of adolescent violence,
school violence, violence against
persons with disabilities, domestic
violence, stalking, sexual assault,
rape, and violence between gay
and lesbian partners, See the Issue
Directory for
automatic searches of the database
on specific topics. Part of CAVNET's
Web site is available by paid subscription
only. CAVNET is an international
network of professionals and advocates
working to combat violence in our
society.
- Center
for the Study and Prevention of
Violence (CSPV) Databases.
Contains information about violence-related
research and literature; curricula
and videotapes; prevention, intervention,
and treatment programs; and survey
instruments for program evaluation.
CSPV is a research center within
the Institute of Behavioral Science
at the University of Colorado at
Boulder.
- HP2010
Information Access Project: Injury
and Violence Prevention.
Provides an automatic search mechanism
for published literature indexed
in PubMed related
to the Healthy
People 2010 injury
and violence prevention objectives.
Also links to the narrative for
each objective and the complete
chapter about injury and violence
prevention in the text, Healthy
People 2010: Understanding and
improving health, 2nd ed. (2000).
This service is provided by the Partners
in Information Access for the Public
Health Workforce,
a collaboration of federal agencies,
public health organizations, and
health sciences libraries.
- Maternal
and Child Health Library at
the National
Center for Education in Maternal
and Child Health (NCEMCH),
Georgetown University. Maintains
several databases to collect, manage,
and disseminate knowledge about
MCH, with special emphasis on knowledge
gained from initiatives and programs
supported by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB).
The library's bibliographic database
is
MCHLine®.
Comprises an online catalog of
materials in the Maternal and
Child Health Library. To identify
items on the topic, type adolescen
violence in the keyword field
of the MCHLine®
search form.
To narrow your search, add keywords
(e.g., school) or a publication
year or range of years. Also see
the library's bibliography about
bullying.
Also see the MCH
Organizations Database and
the MCH
Projects Database.
- National
Criminal Justice Reference Service
(NCJRS) Abstracts Database.
Contains summaries of more than
185,000 criminal and juvenile justice
reports, articles, and audiovisual
products from the United States
and around the world. These resources
include statistics, research findings,
program descriptions, congressional
hearing transcripts, and training
materials. To identify items about
adolescent violence, select the
topic, juvenile justice, from the
sidebar list of topics. Choose
subtopics such as bullying, gangs,
and violent offenders to narrow
your search. NCJRS is a federally
sponsored resource offering justice
and substance use information to
support research, policy, and program
development worldwide.
- National
Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC).
Contains evidence-based clinical
practice guidelines and related
materials for health professionals.
Identify guidelines by selecting
Detailed Search in the Search box.
Enter violence in the Keyword
field. Scroll down on the search
form to select Age of Target Population:
Adolescent. The database is an
initiative of the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
- National
Youth Violence Prevention Resource
Center Materials Database.
Comprises information about youth
violence prevention materials tailored
to a variety of audiences. Formats
include fact sheets, reports, bulletins,
brochures, pamphlets, manuals,
and training guides.
- PAVNET
(Partnerships Against Violence
Network) Online.
Contains a set of databases covering
federally funded research, promising
programs, curricula and teaching
materials, funding opportunities,
and links to other resources about
the prevention, treatment, and
enforcement of violence. PAVNET
also administers an online
discussion group.
PAVNET's content is drawn from
seven federal agencies.
- PubMed.
Contains over 17 million citations
for biomedical articles that date back
to the 1950s. These citations are from
MEDLINE and additional life sciences
journals. PubMed includes links to
many sites providing full-text articles
and other related resources. To identify
citations on the topic, type violence
NOT domestic violence in the search
box. Then, click on Limits and make
the following selections on the page:
select a date (e.g. Published in the
last 2 years); click on Languages:
English; click on Ages and select Adolescent;
and select Tag Terms: MeSH Major Topic.
To narrow your search further or for
additional searches, use MeSH to
identify terms (e.g., (violence
NOT domestic violence) AND firearms).
PubMed is a service of the National
Library of Medicine (NLM).
Also see the HP2010
Information Access Project for
access to published literature related
to the Healthy
People 2010 objectives
about adolescent violence prevention.
- SafetyLit:
Injury Prevention Abstracts Online.
Provides abstracts of English-language
reports and journal articles from
researchers in 35 disciplines relevant
to preventing unintentional injuries,
violence, and self-harm. To identify
literature about adolescent violence,
select Archive
Search and
enter a text word (e.g., guns).
Under the section, Limit your search
to these categories, click on Deselect
All. Then select Age: Adolescents
and Violence and Weapons Issues.
Click on View Abstracts to get
your results. Subscribe to
the SafetyLit Update and
receive a weekly e-mail notice
about new additions to the database.
SafetyLit is presented by the San
Diego State University, Graduate
School of Public Health in collaboration
with the World Health Organization.
- Violence
Intervention and Prevention Program
(VIPP) Database.
Comprises an online catalog of
educational materials and assessment
tools for health professionals,
teachers, and families on a variety
of topics related to child and
adolescent violence. VIPP is a
service of the American
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
- Also see see the Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse
(MINCAVA),
the Center
on Media and Child Health (CMCH)
Database of Literature,
and the Educational
Resources Information Center (ERIC)
Database.
- Programs
Databases
- MCH
Organizations Database.
Lists over 2,000 government, professional,
and voluntary organizations involved
in MCH activities, primarily at
a national level. Organizations
focusing on adolescent violence
prevention appear in a list produced
from the database. The database
is presented by the Maternal
and Child Health Library.
- MCH
Projects Database.
Comprises an online catalog of
projects funded by the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) through
October 1, 2002. To identify projects
that focus on the topic, type violence in
the abstract field of the database search
form.
The database is presented by the Maternal
and Child Health Library.
- National
Registry of Evidence-based Programs
and Practices (NREPP).
Presents information about interventions
for the prevention and treatment
of mental health problems and substance
use disorders. Search the
database by clicking on Violence
prevention under Areas of interest,
and Adolescent under Age. Click
on Search to get your results.
NREPP is a service of the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA).
- National
Youth Violence Prevention Resource
Center Organizations Database.
Comprises information on hundreds
of organizations (most of which
are federal organizations) related
to adolescent violence prevention.
Entries list a general description
of each organization, and include
information about resources, services,
and Web sites.
- USCM
Best Practices Database.
Contains information about successful
practices of city governments across
the country. Enter the term youth
violence and click on All Words
to identify many resources on the
topic. Best Practices is a service
of the U.S.
Conference of Mayors.
- Also see the Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence
(CSPV) Databases,
CDC's Registries
of Programs Effective in Reducing
Youth Risk Behaviors,
the Minnesota
Center Against Violence and Abuse
(MINCAVA), PAVNET,
and the Directory
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Electronic Newsletters
and Online Discussion Groups
Special Topics
Bullying
- 15+
Make Time to Listen… Take
Time to Talk.
Offers the About
Bullying initiative
to promote healthy child development
and to prevent adolescent and school-based
violence. Includes booklets, tip
sheets, public service announcements,
posters, resource guides, and other
resources for parents, caregivers,
educators and school personnel,
community organizations, health
professionals, and children and
adolescents about reducing or preventing
bullying behavior and improving
peer relations at school. 15+ is
presented by the National
Mental Health Information Center.
- ABCs
of Bullying: Addressing, Blocking,
and Curbing School Aggression.
Presents an online course that
examines the causes and effects
of bullying, prevention techniques
and programs, screening, treatment
options, and the legal and ethical
issues surrounding bullying. The
information is relevant to educators,
health and mental health professionals,
parents, and caregivers. The course
is presented by the Center
for Substance Abuse Prevention
(CSAP).
- Cyberbullying.
Offers resources for educators and
parents about cyberbullying (i.e.,
the sending or posting of harmful or
cruel text or images using the Internet
or other digital communication devices).
This Web site is a service of the Center
for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
(CSRIU).
Recent publications include
Educator's
guide to cyberbullying and cyberthreats.
(2007).
Parent's
guide to cyberbullying and cyberthreats.
(2006).
- Gay,
Lesbian and Straight Education
Network (GLSEN). Offers
resources to support school gay-straight
alliances, teacher-training tools,
and other materials for families,
teachers, and school administrators
to provide a more in-depth understanding
of how to address anti-lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender
bias in their schools and to make
schools safer for all students.
GLSEN is a national education organization
focused on ensuring safe schools
for all students. Recent publications
and initiatives include
From
teasing to torment: School climate
in America. A survey of students.
(2005).
No
Name Calling Week.
Offers lesson plans, a bibliography,
materials for families, and other
resources for this annual week
of educational activities aimed
at ending name calling of all kinds
and providing schools with the
tools and inspiration to launch
an on going dialogue about ways
to eliminate bullying in their
communities.
- Health
Resources and Services Administration
(HRSA): Take a Stand. Lend a Hand.
Stop Bullying Now! Contains
information and materials for this
national public health campaign
designed to reduce and prevent
bullying among children and adolescents.
Includes resources for children,
adolescents, parents, professionals,
and the media. Spanish-language
materials are available for parents
and educators. The campaign was
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