Publications
Community Violence Prevention Resource for Action: This Prevention Resource for Action, formerly known as, “technical package,” is a collection of strategies that represent the best available evidence to help states and communities prevent or reduce youth violence.
Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools: This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence.
Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools: This compendium provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences including perpetration, victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences.
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) School Assessment (CSA): The purpose of the CPTED CSA is to rate the physical parts of the school that may have an impact on youth fear and aggressive behavior. This rating scale is based on School CPTED Principles.
Bullying Surveillance Among Youths: Uniform Definitions for Public Health and Recommended Data Elements, Version 1: The definitions and data elements publication was developed to address the lack of uniform definitions and to improve and standardize data collected on bullying.
Data Sources
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP): NEISS-AIP provides nationally representative data about all types and causes of nonfatal injuries treated in United States hospital emergency departments.
National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS): NVDRS links information about the “who, when, where, and how” from data on violent deaths and provides insights about “why” they occurred. This information can be used by states and communities to make informed decisions about prevention programs and track progress over time.
Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS): WISQARS is an interactive, online collection of modules that provides fatal, nonfatal, and cost of injury data.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS): YRBSS monitors health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disability, and social problems among 9th through 12th grade students in the United States.
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Department of Justice: The BJS provides data on crime, victims, criminals, courts, police, jails and prisons in the United States.
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI): The FBI collects data on crime in the United States. Each year, the FBI publishes a summary of crime in the United States, hate crime statistics, special studies, reports, and monographs.
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: This annual report, published by the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice, provides the most recent data available on school crime and student safety. It covers topics such as victimization, teacher injury, bullying, school conditions, fights, weapons, and student use of drugs and alcohol.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): The OJJDP’s Statistical Briefing Book provides data on juvenile offending, victimization of juveniles, and involvement of youth in the juvenile justice system.
Resources
Veto Violence: CDC’s online source of free violence prevention training, tools, and resources.
Adolescent Health: What Works in Schools: CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health has established an evidence-based approach to school-based HIV and STD prevention, which includes quality sexual health education, connecting students to sexual health services, and establishing safe and supportive school environments.
Health Curriculum Analysis Tool (HECAT): The HECAT contains guidance, appraisal tools, and resources to help schools conduct an analysis of health education curricula based on the National Health Education Standards and CDC’s Characteristics of an Effective Health Education Curriculum.
School Connectedness: Strategies for Increasing Protective Factors among Youth: his resource provides school administrators and teachers with strategies to enhance school connectedness among students.
School Health Index: This assessment and planning tool can be used by schools to develop an action plan to improve health and safety. The tool covers five topics: unintentional injuries and violence prevention, physical education and activity, healthy eating, tobacco use prevention, and asthma.
CrimeSolutions.gov: The U.S. Department of Justice developed this resource to provide practitioners and policy makers with information about effective strategies in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and victim services.
Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics: The primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education in the U.S. and other nations.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS): This website offers information on criminal and juvenile justice, supported by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, and the Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center.
National Gang Center (NGC): NGC disseminates information, knowledge, and practices that engage and empower communities with chronic and emerging gang problems to prevent gang violence, reduce gang involvement, and suppress gang-related crime.
National Institute of Justice (NIJ): NIJ is the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice. NIJ provides information and tools to inform the decision-making of the criminal and juvenile justice communities to reduce crime and advance justice.
National Offices of Violence Prevention Network: The National Offices of Violence Prevention Network is a coalition of local governments committed to reimagining public safety. The newly formed Network brings together the leaders of civilian local government offices dedicated to community-driven safety solutions, known as offices of violence prevention (OVPs).
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP): OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, support, and resources to respond to juvenile delinquency and victimization.
StopBullying.gov: StopBullying.gov provides information from various government agencies on what bullying is, what cyberbullying is, who is at risk, and how you can prevent and respond to bullying.
Youth.gov: Youth.gov helps users create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs.
Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development: This is an online resource for communities to learn more about model or promising programs that reduce youth violence or key risk factors for violence and promote healthy youth behavior and relationships.
Children’s Safety Network: This Network provides resources and technical assistance to maternal and child health agencies and organizations seeking to reduce unintentional injuries and violence toward children and adolescents.
The Community Guide for Violence Prevention: The Community Guide, developed by the Task Force for Community Preventive Services, includes recommendations for preventing youth violence based on systematic reviews of evidence-based strategies.
The National Gang Crime Research Center (NGCRC): NGCRC is a non-profit independent agency that conducts research on gangs and disseminates information through publications and reports, and provides training and consulting services.