Youth Violence Prevention Resource for Action
From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this Prevention Resource represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences. These strategies include promoting family environments that support healthy development; providing quality education early in life; strengthening youth’s skills; connecting youth to caring adults and activities; creating protective community environments; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk. The strategies represented in this resource include those with a focus on preventing youth violence from happening in the first place as well as approaches to reduce the immediate and long-term harms of youth violence in order to prevent future violence. Preventing youth violence requires multiple, complementary strategies, and those outlined in the resource reflect the mature research-base about how to strengthen individual’s skills and relationships to prevent youth violence. It also includes promising evidence about ways to address broader community issues that affect the likelihood of youth violence.
This resource supports CDC’s STRYVE initiative for preventing youth violence. In particular, this resource articulates a select set of strategies and specific approaches to achieve STRYVE’s vision of safe and healthy youth achieving their full potential. Commitment, cooperation, and leadership from numerous
sectors, including public health, education, justice, health care, social services, business, and government, can bring about the successful implementation and long-term impact of this resource.