Violence prevention
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Evaluating Prevention Programs
Description: This website contains resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway on evaluating child abuse prevention programs. Includes a toolkit, logic model builder, and ways to make the economic case for prevention programs.
Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: This website contains resources from the Child Welfare Information Gateway on child abuse prevention, protecting children from risk of abuse, and promoting healthy families. Includes information on supporting families, protective factors, public awareness, community activities, positive parenting, prevention programs, and more.
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A Guide To Family Intervention and Prevention Program Evaluation 
Author: Kaufman Kantor, Glenda; Kendall-Tackett, Kathy
Description: In this guide, the basics of program evaluation are discussed in a sequenced format, with a nod given to family violence prevention and intervention programs.
Healthy Families America: Evaluation Information
Description: Contains information on the various evaluations including the location, dates, and design of the study and reference information.
Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
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Biting, Pushing, Hair Pulling: Helping Children with Aggression
Description: This brief article is aimed at helping parents understand and help their children when they hurt others, and when they are hurt by other children.
Bullying in Schools: An Overview
Description: This bulletin examines the connection between different types and frequencies of bullying, truancy, and student achievement, and whether students' engagement in school mediates these factors. The authors conclude that victimization in the form of bullying can distance students from learning.
Bullying Prevention Skills and Techniques for Children
Description: This article describes skills and techniques for children to use to prevent bullying.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information provides both general resources and ones directed at professionals. Topics include ways to promote safe children and healthy families, an overview of child abuse and neglect, and tips on supporting families dealing with abuse and neglect issues.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Dealing With Anger in a Marriage
Author: Recker, Nancy (5 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet discussing misconceptions of anger, how people cover up anger, how anger can actually be healthy in a relationship and how to resolve anger.
Domestic Violence and Child Safety Planning
Description: This article discusses domestic violence and how to keep children safe.
Evaluating Comprehensive Strategies to Reduce Gang-related Violence: A Municipal Action Guide
Description: This article discusses how to strategies to reduce gang-related violence.
Description: This article discusses the danger of gangs and provides information on how parents can keep their kids safe.
Healthy Families America: A Distinctive Approach to Home Visiting
Description: This fact sheet describes the Healthy Families America's voluntary home visiting program to promote positive parenting, enhance health outcomes for children and prevent child abuse and neglect.
Hooking up with Teens to Promote Healthy Relationships
Description: This resource aims to take teen-dating-violence prevention out of the classroom and into the realm of young people's Internet-infused lives.
If Only . . . Detecting the Early Warning Signs for Suicide in Children
Author: Bard, Ella Mae
Description: This is a fact sheet on the warning signs of detecting suicide tendencies of children.
Key Federal Child Welfare Laws
Description: This document lists and explains key federal child welfare laws.
Pandillas. ¿Qué pueden hacer los padres?
Description: This article discusses the danger of gangs and provides information on how parents can keep their kids safe.
Public Policy Briefing on Preventing Family Violence
Description: This briefing on family violence presents background on some of the prevention programs that have been established in New York and how home visiting helps families during early pregnancy.
Reducing Gang Violence Through Reentry Services
Description: This article discusses the importance of reentry services in reducing gang violence.
Talking to Children About Violence: Tips for Parents and Teachers
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on how to talk with and help children exposed to or dealing with school violence.
Understanding and Resolving The Cycle Of Abuse
Author: Direnfeld, Gary (34 more by this author)
Description: This article discusses abusive relationships and ending the cycle of abuse.
WHAT MAKES A CHILD MORE LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE DATING ABUSE AS A TEEN?
Description: A study published last year traces the relationship between teen dating violence and children's earlier family life and behavior.
Which Youth Violence Prevention Programs Work?
Author: Fetsch, Robert (2 more by this author)
Description: This is a publication on the psychological effects of violence on youth in America. It discusses what programs can be used to help reduce violence in schools and at home.
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Description: Futures Without Violence, formerly Family Violence Prevention Fund, works to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.
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A Guide To Family Intervention and Prevention Program Evaluation
Author: Kaufman Kantor, Glenda; Kendall-Tackett, Kathy
Description: In this guide, the basics of program evaluation are discussed in a sequenced format, with a nod given to family violence prevention and intervention programs.
Adults and Children Together— Against Violence
Description: Adults and Children Together— (ACT) Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by helping these adults to be positive role models and learn the skills to teach young children nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts, deal with frustration, and handle anger. The site includes a searchable database of journal articles, book chapters, and other publications related to children, violence, and violence prevention.
National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice
Description: The National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice provides technical assistance, staff training, research and evaluation, and library research on family-based programs and issues to public and private human services agencies in states, counties, and communities across the United States. The Center has worked in child welfare, mental health, juvenile justice, community action, county extension, Head Start, and job training programs.
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A Survival Guide for Parents of Teenagers:What if the next shooting is at my school?
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions for parents in talking with their teenage children about school violence.
Adults and Children Together— Against Violence
Description: Adults and Children Together— (ACT) Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach young children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by helping these adults to be positive role models and learn the skills to teach young children nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts, deal with frustration, and handle anger. The site includes a searchable database of journal articles, book chapters, and other publications related to children, violence, and violence prevention.
Description: This site, through its Children's Division, has worked for over a century to help improve and enhance public child welfare systems and private child-focused agencies in their responses to the plight of abused and neglected children.
Bullying: A Big Problem with Big Consequences
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what to do if parents suspect that their teenage children are being victimized by a bully or are themselves being a bully.
Center on Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy and Parenting
Description: CASPP provides on-site support to establish adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting programs; web-based information on research and programs on adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting; assistance with program development and evaluation; reviews of research; training in specific areas related to adolescent sexuality, pregnancy and parenting programs (e.g., violence, mentoring, fatherhood); information and assistance with community development to support adolescent sexuality; and pregnancy and parenting efforts (e.g., fundraising, coalition building, needs assessment).
Child Abuse Prevention Network
Description: This site provides information on child abuse and child abuse prevention.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Spanish language resources are available.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Description: The Clearinghouse is a major resource center for professionals concerned with child maltreatment issues. The Clearinghouse maintains a database of documents, audiovisual materials, services, programs, excerpts of state statutes, and ongoing research projects concerning child abuse and neglect. Their Web site also includes a listing of national hotlines to report child abuse.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Author: Simpson, A. (3 more by this author)
Description: The National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information provides both general resources and ones directed at professionals. Topics include ways to promote safe children and healthy families, an overview of child abuse and neglect, and tips on supporting families dealing with abuse and neglect issues.
Description: Children's Bureau Express is designed for professionals concerned with child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and adoption.
Community Violence Prevention as a Family Strengthening Strategy
Description: The Family Strengthening Policy Center serves as a focal point for research, information dissemination, and advocacy on place-based, practice-driven family strengthening practices, programs, and policy. This particular article deals with community violence prevention as a family strengthening strategy.
Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults (CRPSIB)
Description: The Cornell Research Program on Self-Injurious Behavior in Adolescents and Young Adults (CRPSIB) offers a variety of educational factsheets, narrated presentations, and other resources to inform parents, adults working with youth, and youth themselves about non-suicidal self-injury.
Description: This resource from ParentFurther, the Search Institute’s site for families, addresses cyberbulling and what parents need to be aware of to protect their children.
Author: Schmitz, Tom; B. Jacobson
Description: This fact sheet summarizes what can happen when couples fail to address issues and avoid communication which could avoid/prevent conflict.
Educating Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
Author: Gabarino, James
Description: This article discusses the problems of children growing up in a socially toxic environment. Social toxins include violence, poverty, and other economic pressures on parents and their children. They include disruption of family relationships and other trauma, despair, depression, paranoia, nastiness, and alienation--all contaminants that demoralize families and communities. These are the forces in the land that contaminate the environment of children and youth. These are the elements of social toxicity.
Description: This fact sheet provides suggestions on what to do if parents suspect that their teenage children are being victimized by a bully or are themselves being a bully.
Description: This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies. It is for state and local leaders and staff members of organizations, coalitions, government agencies, and/or partnerships working to prevent sexual violence, intimate partner violence, youth violence, suicide, and/or child maltreatment.
Family Skills Training for Parents and Children
Author: Kumpfer, Karol
Description: The Strengthening Families Program is one of the most powerful family change programs in the Nation because it involves the whole family instead of the parents or the children alone (Kumpfer, 1994a). The initial goal was to design and test the relative effectiveness of three family-based and behavior-oriented prevention interventions (a Parent Training Program, a Children's Skills Training Program, and a Family Skills Training Program) in reducing the risk that children (ages 6 to 10) living with substance-abusing parents would become substance abusers themselves.
Fully Incorporating Prevention in Comprehensive Youth Violence Reduction Strategies
Description: This article discusses how to incorporate youth violence reduction strategies.
Helping Children Cope with Stress
Description: This article explains childhood stress and provides information on helping your child cope with these stresses.
Helping Children Grow: The Causes and Prevention of Child Abuse
Author: Bailey, Cindee (18 more by this author)
Description: This is a fact sheet on ways to prevent child abuse.
Description: This information packet provides information on the contributing factors of maltreatment, in order to prevent repeat maltreatment.
Injury Prevention & Control: Violence Prevention
Description: This website provides information on violence prevention.
Description: This fact sheet from the World Health Organization contains a comprehensive overview of the extent of the problem of intimate partner violence, the consequences, risk factors and what can be done to prevent it.
Intimate Partner Violence: A Fact Sheet
Description: This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of partner violence with bibliography and link to other resources.
Description: This site is involved with building special Internet resources for solving problems in the field of child maltreatment.
Description: This compendium provides tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences.
National Children's Advocacy Center
Description: The National Children's Advocacy Center is focused on prevention and treatment options for physically and sexually abused children and their families. Uses a child-centered, family focused approach.
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
Description: The central data archive for researchers in child abuse and neglect in the USA. The RCCP's partners in providing Internet working skills for child abuse prevention.
Peacemaking: The Art of Reducing Violence and Scattering Kindness
Author: Quick, Sam (32 more by this author); Kim Townley
Description: "Today's violence is so overwhelming that many of us feel powerless in responding, thinking there is little if anything we can do to substantially counter the epidemic."
Preventing Sexual Abuse: A Guide for Parents
Description: This article provides tips for parents on reducing the risk of sexual abuse for their children.
Description: This article discusses the concept of conflict as well as how to resolve it.
Secrets of Parenting: All Parents want to Love their Children
Description: This article provides advice on loving your children through the good and the bad.
Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
The Family Violence Research Program
Description: The Family Research Laboratory (FRL) is an independent research unit at the University of New Hampshire devoted to the study of family violence.
The Nurturing Parenting Programs
Author: Johnson, Richard (1 more by this author)
Description: The Nurturing Parenting Programs® were created by Stephen J. Bavolek, Ph.D. Dr. Bavolek is recognized for his work in promoting nurturing parenting attitudes and skills for the prevention and treatment of child abuse. The Nurturing Parenting Programs are recognized by CSAP Center for Substance Abuse; OJJDP, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health.
Description: This site gives information on bullying; including articles entitled bullying fundamentals, from teasing to bullying, bullying facts, responding to bullying, from victim to target, from spectator to witness. As well as activities for workshops.
Understanding Child Development as a Violence Prevention Tool
Description: This document outlines important information, based on decades of research, about children’s typical abilities and behaviors at various ages until age 8.
Violence Prevention Resource Guide for Parent
Author: Patten, Peggy; Anne S. Robertson
Description: This publication has been organized to offer easy access to information on the three primary developmental stages in childhood: The Early Years, The Middle Years, and The Teen Years. Within each section are subsections that identify some of the issues that have an impact on violence in children, and over which parents have a significant amount of control. In addition, each subsection has been summarized as a onepage handout for busy parents.
Violencia domestica en las relaciones
Author: Dworkin, Jodi (10 more by this author)
Description: This fact sheet provides a overview of dating violence (in Spanish).
When Violence Hits Home Series: Bringing the Facts to Light
Author: Johannes, Elaine (8 more by this author)
Description: Deals with the facts of violence on the homefront. Individuals leave abusive relationships. Agencies provide services and education. Communities take a stand against violence.
When Violence Hits Home Series: How Can I Help My Friend? She's Being Hurt at Home
Author: Johannes, Elaine (8 more by this author)
Description: This publication deals with how to help a friend in a domestic violence situation. Think safety first. Ask her directly, Are you in danger? If a violent episode seems likely soon, help her get out. Call or urge her to call the local domestic violence program right away.
When Violence Hits Home Series: When Violence Hits Home Children Are at Risk
Author: Johannes, Elaine (8 more by this author); Trish Bledsoe
Description: This publication deals with the violence faced by children. Abusers assault children in nearly 50 percent of woman-battering incidents. Children also may be assailed by the battered woman.
White House Conference on Bullying Prevention
Description: On March 10, 2011, President Obama hosted a conference on bullying prevention. The conference brought together students, parents, and teachers to discuss how communities can work together to address bullying.
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Children’s Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National Survey
Description: Presents findings from the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence, the most comprehensive survey to date of children’s exposure to violence in the United States. Discusses the survey’s findings regard children’s direct and indirect exposure to specific categories of violence, how exposure to violence changes as children grow up, and the prevalence and incidence of multiple and cumulative exposures to violence.
Costs of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in the United States
Description: This report presents the findings of a study measuring both the scope and economic costs of intimate partner violence.
Evidence-Based Practices for Children Exposed to Violence: A Selection from Federal Databases
Description: This publication summarizes findings from federal reviews of research studies and program evaluations to help communities improve outcomes for children exposed to violence. It cites evidence-based practices that practitioners and policymakers can use to implement prevention services and activities for these children.
Description: The Family Research Laboratory is an independent research unit devoted to the study of family problems. Their Web site contains information on family violence, publications, and a listing of related links. You can also find out about current projects at the Laboratory.
Healthy Families America Achievements
Description: This fact sheet highlights Healthy Families America's accomplishments in the areas of political and financial support, training, capacity-building, quality assurance and research.
Healthy Families America: A Program that Works
Description: This executive summary describes how the program strengthens families and reduces the risk factors that contribute to child maltreatment.
Description: This fact sheet from the World Health Organization contains a comprehensive overview of the extent of the problem of intimate partner violence, the consequences, risk factors and what can be done to prevent it.
Preventing Family Violence: Community Engagement Makes the Difference
Description: The Family Violence Prevention Fund launched the Community Engagement for Change Initiative in order to identify and learn from organizations and systems that are employing community mobilization strategies to prevent family violence. This report looks at some of the lessons learned from these community-based efforts to counter family violence. The report focuses on five key goals the study identified as being critical to family violence prevention efforts.
Protecting Children from Abuse and Neglect: A Synopsis
Author: Various Authors, Various Authors
Description: This report discusses in-depth research done regarding children, abuse and neglect.
Sexual Violence Prevention and Education Project
Description: This website is designed to share rape statistics and sexual assault statistics, evaluation, and research. Two additional sections of the site provide ADHS funded programs with ADHS funded consultant information and extensive research resources that provide information and references for 30 rape-related topics. The research section is organized by keyword and author.
Author: Dunham, Trudy (4 more by this author)
Description: It's a classic scene: the bully shoves the victim. The surrounding crowd does nothing. This is the bystander effect in action. Why does no one intervene to stop the violence? Decades of social psychology research suggests the answer is a diffusion of responsibility. But what about the case where the victim and bystanders know the bully? In the school, workplace, and community, the bystander co-creates the social context that allows the bullying behavior to flourish. This brief review of the research includes strategies for changing the social context, and hopefully ending the bullying behavior.