SYMPOSIUM: Report of the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents and Its Implications for Baltimore and Maryland. November 19, 2004 In October, 2004, the National Institutes of Health convened a State-of-the-Science Conference on Preventing Violence and Related Health-Risking Social Behaviors in Adolescents. Participants considered the current state of knowledge on adolescent violence and related health risking social behaviors, evaluated interventions intended to reduce youth violence and related behaviors and identified directions for future research. Experts in the field were invited to make presentations on both the latest research on risk and protective factors involved in the development of adolescent violence and related behaviors and on interventions designed to reduce those risky behaviors. Following the presentations and the ensuing discussion, an independent panel drafted a report addressing several key questions: What are the factors that contribute to violence and associated adverse health outcomes in childhood and adolescence? What are the patterns of co-occurrence of these factors? What evidence exists on the safety and effectiveness of interventions for violence? Where evidence of safety and effectiveness exists, are there other outcomes beyond reducing violence? If so, what is known about effectiveness by age, sex and race/ethnicity? What are the priorities for future research?
The Johns Hopkins Centers for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease Prevention co-sponsored a symposium to discuss the report and its implications for Baltimore and Maryland. Symposium discussants included Drs. Freya Sonenstein and Michael Cataldo, members of the panel that drafted the report, Dr. Tina Cheng and Dr. Daniel Webster. The NIH State-of-the-Science Conference Statement is available by clicking here. The following is a list of experts who made presentations to the NIH State-of-the-Science Conference. Click on their last name to access their power-point presentation. Steve Aos Deborah M. Capaldi Richard F. Catalano Patricia Chamberlain Linda S. Chan Rand D. Conger Thomas J. Dishion Kenneth A. Dodge Felton Earls Delbert S. Elliot Scott W. Henggeler Thomas Insel Sheppard G. Kellam Michele D. Kipke Benjamin B. Lahey John Landsverk Rolf Loeber Terrie E. Moffitt David Olds John Reid Robert J. Sampson Carolyn Webster-Stratton
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