Creating and maintaining a safe, nonviolent community is an important part of supporting children, youth, and families in preventing child abuse and neglect. Find resources and strategies to help reduce violence in the community.
Community Violence Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression
Alderden (2017)
Discusses the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Comprehensive Gang Prevention, Intervention, and Suppression Model, which discusses guidelines and practices to strengthen youth resilience and reduce community violence through a coordinated response.
Family Violence Prevention & Services Resource Centers
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Family and Youth Services Bureau
Provides a listing of violence prevention organizations and resources related to the prevention of violence at the individual, community, and societal levels.
The National Center for Prevention of Community Violence
Works to prevent violence through community-based resources and solutions for people of all ages.
Preventing Violence: A Review of Research, Evaluation, Gaps, and Opportunities. Revised February 2015 (PDF - 140 KB)
Moore, Stratford, Caal, Hanson, Hickman, Temkin, et al. (2015)
Child Trends
Summarizes a review of research and evaluation studies, as well as promising and proven interventions, to identify programs, policies, and practices that can contribute to reducing high levels of violence in the United States. The report discusses individual, family, school, and community factors related to violence and provides recommendations for programs and policies by age range.
Preventing Violence: Understanding and Addressing Determinants of Youth Violence (PDF - 394 KB)
Child Trends and Futures Without Violence (2015)
Reviews common risk and protective factors across different types of violence, including child maltreatment, crime, gang violence, intimate partner violence, and others. The publication examines violence prevention as the preferable treatment and discusses programs and approaches to reduce violence.
Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY) Through Violence Prevention
Prevention Institute
Promotes collaboration across public and private sectors to maximize resources, ensure sustainability, and encourage effectiveness to prevent violence before it occurs. UNITY wants urban youth to thrive in safe environments with supportive relationships and opportunities for success.
VetoViolence
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019)
Presents Violence Educational Tools Online (VETO), an evolving resource for individuals committed to violence prevention that provides free accredited training; resources for program planning, implementation, and evaluation; and success stories featuring existing programs and strategies.
Violence and Injury Prevention
World Health Organization
Includes numerous resources on violence prevention activities around the world, including policy development and capacity building.
Violence Prevention
Youth.gov
Discusses the problem of youth violence and how it can be prevented using a trauma-informed approach. The website also lists several related resources on frameworks for reducing youth violence and a trauma-informed approach to violence prevention.
Violence Prevention at CDC
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2019)
Explores the work of the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reviews the goal of its work, the division's vision, the public health approach to violence prevention, and the socio-ecological model framework for prevention.
Violence Prevention Initiative
University of Pittsburgh, Center for Health Equity
Describes the efforts of the Homicide Review and Gunshot Reoccurring Injury Prevention Services programs and affiliates, which examine neighborhood dynamics and provide support to victims of firearm assault.