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Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America
John Wiley & Sons
October 2003
288 pages ISBN: 078796980X Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Authors Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak-two
prominent Boston-area public health officials who played
leading roles in that city's turnaround- show that the key
to Boston's success was creating an interdisciplinary
citywide movement. The city's movement, made up of
educators, community leaders, police officers, emergency
room workers, activist teens, teen and family member
survivors of violence, and many others, worked for more than
ten years to implement multifaceted preventive programs that
confronted each risk factor for youth violence, including * Positive Role Models
* Peer mentoring and teacher-training programs Healthy
and Safe Communities: Youth centers, after-school
programs, and other organized recreational activities
* Poverty: Economic stimulus policies to help reduce
poverty in inner-city and rural areas
* Pro-Social Behaviors: Conflict resolution and violence
prevention curricula in schools
* Domestic Violence: Home visitation programs and
screening to protect kids from domestic violence
* Gun Buybacks: Reduction in the number of firearms on
the streets
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