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).
- 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
- 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
- Phoenix Gang Prevention and Intervention
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- United Nations Peace building Commission
- United Nations Conflict prevention, peace-building and development
- Catholic Relief Services:PEACEBUILDING
- PBS WIDE ANGLE: Gangs and Youth Violence Around the World: The Americas
- Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America
- Conflict resolution and peacebuilding through art and media
- The Youth Peace Project was founded by the UCLA Chapter of Gamma Zeta Alpha and U-Can International & Associates Inc.
- 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.