What You Can Do
by Urbanite Staff
For further information on fighting violence in your community:
General Information
The Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence provides information on strategies for reducing youth violence as well as access to information about activities for young people in Baltimore.
www.jhsph.edu/preventyouthviolence
The Baltimore Child Development-Community Policing Program provides a 24/7 response to youth and families who have been exposed to violence.
www.cdcpbaltimore.org
The websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Justice provide information on youth violence prevention.
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm
www.usdoj.gov/whatwedo/whatwedo_pyv.html
The Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth through Violence Prevention (UNITY), a program of the California-based Prevention Institute, supports cities in preventing violence before it occurs.
www.preventioninstitute.org/UNITY.html
Best Practices and Effective Programs
Blueprints for Violence Prevention is a national initiative that has identified eleven prevention and intervention programs that meet a scientific standard of effectiveness.
www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) maintains a database of "promising and proven" programs from across the nation that address youth violence.
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/programs/yvp_programs.htm
Tools for Taking Action
Communities That Care is a system based on prevention science that helps schools and communities devise a customized plan for the positive development of their young people.
ncadi.samhsa.gov/features/ctc/resources.aspx
Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) assists communities in prioritizing public health issues and finding the resources to address them.
www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/MAPP.cfm
The Community Tool Box contains more than 7,000 pages of free, practical guidance and information about the skills needed to build healthy communities.
ctb.ku.edu/en/
—Philip Leaf, Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence
General Information
The Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence provides information on strategies for reducing youth violence as well as access to information about activities for young people in Baltimore.
www.jhsph.edu/preventyouthviolence
The Baltimore Child Development-Community Policing Program provides a 24/7 response to youth and families who have been exposed to violence.
www.cdcpbaltimore.org
The websites of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Justice provide information on youth violence prevention.
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm
www.usdoj.gov/whatwedo/whatwedo_pyv.html
The Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth through Violence Prevention (UNITY), a program of the California-based Prevention Institute, supports cities in preventing violence before it occurs.
www.preventioninstitute.org/UNITY.html
Best Practices and Effective Programs
Blueprints for Violence Prevention is a national initiative that has identified eleven prevention and intervention programs that meet a scientific standard of effectiveness.
www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/
The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Model Programs Guide (MPG) maintains a database of "promising and proven" programs from across the nation that address youth violence.
www.ojp.usdoj.gov/programs/yvp_programs.htm
Tools for Taking Action
Communities That Care is a system based on prevention science that helps schools and communities devise a customized plan for the positive development of their young people.
ncadi.samhsa.gov/features/ctc/resources.aspx
Mobilizing for Action through Planning and Partnerships (MAPP) assists communities in prioritizing public health issues and finding the resources to address them.
www.naccho.org/topics/infrastructure/MAPP.cfm
The Community Tool Box contains more than 7,000 pages of free, practical guidance and information about the skills needed to build healthy communities.
ctb.ku.edu/en/
—Philip Leaf, Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence
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