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National Youth Violence Prevention Center  Provides parents, teenagers, healthcare providers, law enforcement officials and other professionals and concerned citizens a single user-friendly point of access to critical information regarding youth violence and suicide. Resources include:

• a bilingual (English/Spanish) toll-free telephone information hotline (866-SAFEYOUTH)
• an internet site: www.safeyouth.org
• technical assistance

a clearinghouse for information and resources

• Crisis Intervention & Prevention
• Referrals and conference to community-based resources such as counseling, support groups, alternative housing, and health care. The NRS has links to over 100,000 resources.
• Community Education and outreach services
• Free NRS promotional materials for distribution at community events, school assemblies, and health fairs

Join the National Mentoring Partnership, an advocate for the expansion of mentoring; a resource for mentors and mentoring initiatives nationwide.

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School Violence: Prevention and Response
Testimony of Dr. Helen Smith Before the Ad Hoc Committee on School Violence

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Centers for Disease Control
Youth Violence & Suicide Prevention Team

Resource Organizations

The Bureau of At-Risk Youth
The Bureau For At-Risk Youth is an educational publisher and distributor of programs, videos, publications and products for youth at-risk and their caregivers. Started in 1990, it has quickly become the nation's leading supplier of innovative, high-quality, user-friendly resources that help children, teens, parents, educators and others cope with the many vital issues facing today's youth. Areas of concern and publishing activity include substance abuse, teenage sexuality and pregnancy, violence prevention, conflict resolution, child abuse, self-esteem and much more.

Child Welfare League of America
CWLA is an association of nearly 1,000 public and not-for-profit agencies devoted to improving life for more than 2.5 million at-risk children and youths and their families. Member agencies are involved with prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect, and they provide various services in addition to child protection -- kinship care, family foster care, adoption, positive youth development programs, residential group care, child care, family-centered practice, and programs for pregnant and parenting teenagers. Other concerns of member agencies include managed care, mental health, chemical dependency, housing and homelessness, and HIV/AIDS. For all these areas, CWLA has program experts who consult, train and otherwise assist agencies to advance their practice.

Children’s Defense Fund
The Children's Defense Fund exists to provide a strong and effective voice for all the children of America, who cannot vote, lobby, or speak for themselves. We pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities. Our goal is to educate the nation about the needs of children and encourage preventive investment in children before they get sick, drop out of school, suffer family breakdown, or get into trouble.

Children’s Safety Network
The Children's Safety Network (CSN) National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource Center is located at Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, Massachusetts. We provide resources and technical assistance to maternal and child health agencies and other organizations seeking to reduce unintentional injuries and violence to children and adolescents. We are one of four Children's Safety Network Resource Centers funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Education   Development Center
Working in partnership with police, judges, probation officers, advocates, and educators, EDC develops comprehensive solutions to social problems, including hate crimes, domestic abuse, child exploitation, and youth violence. Our projects link initiatives in crime and violence prevention, community building, and victims’ assistance in order to promote a more integrated and effective criminal justice system.

Family Resource Coalition of America
The website for all people interested in helping children and families succeed! The Family Resource Coalition of America is an alliance of people and organizations convinced that in order to do the best we can by our nation’s children, we need to support and strengthen America’s families.

KidsPeace
KidsPeace is a private, not-for-profit organization, brings hope and healing to America's children through public awareness and treatment programs. The National Hospital for Kids in Crisis and KidsPeace National Centers for Kids in Crisis are divisions of KidsPeace.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
The central mission of NACJD is to facilitate and encourage research in the field of criminal justice through the preservation and sharing of data resources, and the provision of specialized training in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data.

National Crime Prevention Council
The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a private, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization whose mission is to prevent crime and build safer, more caring communities.

National Institute of Justice/National Criminal Justice Reference Service
This site offers a centralized source of criminal justice information.

Partnership Against Violence (PAVNET) U.S. Department of Justice
Pavnet Online is an interagency, electronic resource on the internet created to provide information about effective violence prevention initiatives.

RAND Corporation
The mission of RAND's Criminal Justice Program is to minimize the level of harm to residents of the United States associated with criminal violence, theft, illegal drug use, and any policies or programs intended to ameliorate these problems.

Save the Children International & National Office
Across the United States and around the world, Save the Children has helped to weave a safety net for an ever-increasing number of children. It is active in the U.S. to make lasting improvements in the lives of children.

U.S. Dept of Education (Safe&Drug-Free Schools)
The #1 priority of the project is to build the community's capacity to meet the common mission of creating and maintaining safe, drug-free schools and community environments. The primary goal and priority of the Resiliency Safe and Drug-Free Project is empowerment of the local community through capacity building to address the problems encountered in drug and substance abuse prevention.

Violence Policy Center
The Center examines the role of firearms in America, conducts research on firearms violence, and explores new ways to decrease firearm-related death and injury.

YouthToday
This is a publication of the American Youth Work Center.

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