| The Center brings together academic institutions, city and state agencies and organizations, community groups, schools, youth groups, and faith organizations to collaborate on both positive youth development and the prevention of violence. By integrating research findings with education and training, professional development, and practice efforts, the Center provides the infrastructure that facilitates academic-community collaborations, thus translating research into improved professional practice. The result is an increase in the capacity of local providers, policy makers, and academic researchers to choose among potential interventions, monitor fidelity to specified standards, and increase knowledge concerning effective and ineffective practices and policies. Recognizing that future efforts to eliminate youth violence will require better surveillance, improved practices based on research, and more effective dissemination, implementation, and sustaining of evidence-based practices, the Center has adopted the following theme: Waging Peace: Working to reduce violence by creating and supporting positive environments for youth and families.
Created with a five-year grant from the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence is one of ten academic centers of excellence. View Other CDC Centers of Excellence
San Diego, March 9, 2008 – Homicide is the second leading cause of death for all 15-24 year-olds, and the leading cause for African-American youth. In an important special supplement to the March 2008 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 14 contributions from a diverse group of researchers and an article by U.S. Senator Arlen Specter address the need to reduce and prevent youth violence and explore some of the community-based approaches that have proven successful. Click here to view the full article.
Hands Off: Strategies to Combat Youth Violence, a book written by Sara Hassan, Program Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence and LaMarr Darnell Shields, Co-Founder and President of Urban Leadership Institute (ULI), was released. The aim of Hands Off is to educate students, teachers and parents about youth violence, its consequences and preventive interventions; to facilitate positive youth development; to teach positive conflict resolution strategies, and to save the lives of young people so that they can become successful and productive citizens. Included with the book is a DVD containing segments from the Teen Perspective talk show series produced by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, ULI and WMAR ABC 2. For more information on the book, to schedule a training session or to purchase a book go to www.handsoff.homestead.com
Early Intervention at Every Age. By promptly reacting to student distress signals, schools can redirect potential dropouts onto the path to graduation.
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The Toll: Coping with Crime and Violence in Baltimore.
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For information, contact Dr. Philip Leaf, Director, 624 North Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205; phone (410) 955-3962; fax (410) 955-9088; E-mail:pleaf@jhsph.edu |
