Working Together to Prevent Youth Violence: News from CDC's Injury Center

[Howard Hartman]

Working Together to Prevent Youth Violence The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is pleased to announce a special issue of the journal Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action. The special issue appears in the journal’s August 20, 2010 edition. Violence is a leading cause of death and injuries for youth in our country: Emergency departments treated 700,000 violence-related injuries to children, teens and young adults in 2008 alone. Youth violence doesn’t only impact the victims; it can also affect the health of entire communities, through increased health care costs and decreased property values. But neighborhoods and communities have an opportunity to prevent youth violence. This can be done by identifying the factors within communities that contribute to the violence and by creating partnerships with researchers to identify effective, evidence-based prevention efforts communities can put into practice. The journal issue, funded by CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, highlights research on youth violence prevention that engages the community in all phases of program planning, implementation, and evaluation. Learn More Violence Prevention Youth Violence Prevention

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