Comprehensive Youth Violence Prevention Programs

Comprehensive youth violence prevention programs reduce gun violence by targeting individual, relational, community, and societal risk and protective factors. To prevent youth involvement or victimization with gun violence, these programs focus on strategies such as promoting healthy family environments, providing quality early education, strengthening youth skills, connecting youth to responsible adult role models, creating safe and protective communities, and intervening to reduce harm and prevent possible risks in the future. There are many ways to implement comprehensive youth violence programs, and most require partnerships with families, schools, and the community.