Prevention and Intervention

We have for your convenience assembled a list of resources dealing with violence prevention and intervention. Please don’t hesitate to inform us if we have left out a valuable source.

• A Call to Action: A Case for a Comprehensive Solution to LA’s Gang Violence Epidemic

  http://www.advanceproj.org/index.php?q=/c/resource/sc/up_call_to_action

• Rampart Reconsidered: The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later

  http://www.advanceproj.org/index.php?q=/c/resource/sc/up_rampart

• The East Coast Gang Investigators Association, Inc. (ECGIA) is proud to announce it’s new program called GRIPE (Gang Reduction through Intervention, Prevention, and Education).

  http://www.gripe4rkids.org/

• The San Diego Gang Prevention and Intervention Strategic Action Plan

  http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/youthviolence.pdf

• Weisel Howell 2007 Durham Final Gang Assessment Report

  http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/durhamassess.pdf

• Blueprint for Action: Preventing Youth Violence In Minneapolis

  http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/youthviolence.pdf

• Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention

  www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/148_publication.pdf

• Phoenix Gang Prevention and Intervention

  http://www.gangprograms.com/

• Best Practices To Address Community Gang Problems

  http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/publications/PubAbstract.asp?pubi=244701

• Big Drops in Homicides in LA

  http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/071016gangcomm.pdf

• The Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (FACJJ)

  2007 Annual Report

• Gang Wars: The Failure ofEnforcement Tacticsand the Need for Effective Public Safety Strategies

  http://www.sandiego.gov/gangcommission/pdf/justicepolicygangwars.pdf

• The Mayors Gang Prevention Initiative, City of Fresno

  http://www.fresno.gov/Government/DepartmentDirectory/Police/CrimePrevention/MayorsGangPreventionInitiative.htm

• Fairfax County Gang Prevention Summit. Report to the Community: Actions and Recommendation

  http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gangprevention/gangpreventionreport.pdf

• A Community Comparison of “Youth Gang” Prevention Strategies
• http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/envrnmnt/drugfree/v1takata.htm
• A Special Report on Gang Violence in Southern California

  http://lang.dailynews.com/socal/gangs/articles/sgvtp2_program.asp

• South L.A. Gang Intervention Agency Playing Major Role in Citywide Unity Collaboration

  http://www.blackweekly.com/news/lagangs.html

• BLACK ~VS~ BROWN, L.A. UNITY MEETING

  http://13radicalriders14.blogspot.com/2005/08/black-vs-brown-la-unity-meeting.html

• Peace on the Streets

  http://www.advanceproj.com/016.html

• Conflict Resolution Information Source

  http://www.crinfo.org/action/recommended.jsp?list_id=31&nid=2420

• Center for Citizen Peacebuilding (CCPB) at the University of California, Irvine (UCI)

  http://www.socsci.uci.edu/~cpb/about.html

• The Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs

  http://www.patbrowninstitute.org/communityprograms/gang.html

• Search Institute Developmental Assets

  http://www.csgv.ca/counselor/assets/40Assets.pdf

• United Nations Peace building Commission

  http://www.un.org/peace/peacebuilding/

• United Nations Conflict prevention, peace-building and development

  http://www.un.org/esa/peacebuilding/

• Catholic Relief Services:PEACEBUILDING

  http://crs.org/peacebuilding/

• PBS WIDE ANGLE: Gangs and Youth Violence Around the World: The Americas

  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/18-with-a-bullet/gangs-and-youth-violence-around-the-world/the-americas/1535/

• Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America

  http://fssca.net/pastreports/gang00/

• Conflict resolution and peacebuilding through art and media

  http://wherepeacelives.org/thefacts.html

• The Youth Peace Project was founded by the UCLA Chapter of Gamma Zeta Alpha and U-Can International & Associates Inc.

  http://www.youthpeaceproject.org/

• Youth violence & gangs – a public health issue

  http://www.christiantoday.com/article/youth.violence.gangs.a.public.health.issue/20003.htm

• Boys Who Join Gangs: A Prospective Study of Predictors of First Gang Entry

  http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_4_27/ai_60596078

• In the Line of Fire: Public Health Practices May be the Key to Stopping the Violence Epidemic, Say UW Physicians and Social Workers

  http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/top10/line_of_fire.html

• Eradicating the Gang Violence Plague: It Takes a Village by Gary L. Yates

  http://www.tcwf.org/op-ed_archive/eradicating_violence_04_2007.htm

• Central American Gang-Related Asylum Guide

  http://www.wola.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=viewp&id=689&Itemid=2

• National Priorities Project: Analyzes and clarifies federal data so that people can understand and influence how their tax dollars are spent.

  http://www.nationalpriorities.org/