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…
The Credible Messenger Model partners community members who can build relationships with juveniles and adults who are in secure detention or incarceration facilities. Credible Messengers…
Cure Violence aims to reduce violence using public health approaches. Cure leverages community partnerships and violence interrupters along with public education campaigns. Violence interrupters are…
Youth development program approaches may vary, but typically include a structured curriculum with skill-building activities delivered during school time or by community organizations out of…
Individual-level community-based services aim to target criminogenic risk factors that may lead to gun-involved crime. These services can be provided to at-risk youth prior to…
The Survivors Empowered Rapid Response Team is a public awareness campaign that leverages the first-hand stories of gun violence survivors to educate the public and…
Street outreach workers collaborate with law enforcement agencies, often engaging youth in neighborhoods deemed as high risk for violent crime. Street outreach workers are often…
Public education around safe storage of firearms can prevent accidental gun injuries, particularly among children. A key benefit of this approach is that gun owners…
The goal of public awareness campaigns targeting gun violence is to increase communities’ knowledge about specific aspects of gun-involved injury. They target the specific needs…
A community liaison serves as an anti-violence coordinator in the community. Their responsibilities include oversight of the implementation of community strategies to combat gun violence,…
Healthcare professionals can counsel parents and other adult caregivers about gun-related risks to their children’s health and safety. Specific topics for counseling are tied to…
Healthcare professionals can counsel parents and other adult caregivers about gun-related risks to their children’s health and safety. Specific topics for counseling are tied to…
Mentoring approaches to reduce gun violence combine elements of group-based violence intervention (focused deterrence), hospital-based programs, and violence interrupter programs to provide voluntary intensive mentoring…
Hospital-policing partnerships aim to improve law enforcement’s coordination with social services and healthcare partners. Law enforcement agencies can partner with hospitals to provide case management…
Gun violence prevention hotlines provide young people with tools to improve the safety of their schools and communities by reporting threats of violence in their…
