Violence Prevention: the evidence

WHO and Liverpool John Moores University launched Violence prevention: the evidence, an eight-part series of briefings on the evidence for interventions to prevent interpersonal and self-directed violence. By spotlighting evidence for the effectiveness of interventions, Violence prevention: the evidence provides clear directions for how violence prevention funders, policy makers and program implementers can boost the impact of their violence prevention efforts.

Strategy Evaluation Guidebook

This guidebook was developed by the Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center at the UCLA School of Public Health to provide city leaders with a set of tools they can use to gain the knowledge they need to more effectively develop and enact their violence prevention and community safety strategies.

UNITY RoadMap: A Framework for Effectiveness and Sustainability

A Resource that delineates various strategies and programs proven to help cities be more effective in preventing violence and sustaining safe communities.

Building Capacity in Evaluating Outcomes (BCEO Resource)

Building capacity in evaluating outcomes: A teaching and facilitating resource for community-based programs and organizations provides 93 activities and materials for practitioners working in and with community-based programs to use in building the capacity of individuals, groups, and organizations in evaluating outcomes.

Moving From Them to Us: Challenges in Reframing Violence Among Youth

This document by Berkeley Media Studies Group explores how youth and violence have been portrayed in the news, how the issue of race complicates depictions about youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government can inhibit public support for violence prevention.

Adding Power to Our Voices:A Framing Guide for Communicating About Injury

The purpose of this guide is to encourage the adoption and integration of a coordinated message strategy that is based on an overarching injury and violence prevention and response message frame and specific messages that link the injury or violence issue to the frame and are tailored to specific audiences. The guide provides framing and message development techniques and tools, including social math, to help injury and violence prevention and response programs create messaging that presents injury and violence in a way that reflects the broad and deeply held societal value of living life to its full potential.

The Community Toolbox

A Resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and improvement.

Health Literacy: Accurate, Accessible and Actionable Health Information for All

This web site was created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provides information and tools to improve health literacy and public health. These resources are for all organizations that interact and communicate with people about health, including public health departments, healthcare providers and facilities, health plans, government agencies, non-profit/community and advocacy organizations, childcare and schools, the media, and health-related industries.

UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Listing of free, online data resources by category that are helpful for program planning and policy advocacy.

Program Development & Evaluation, Universtiy of Wisconsin-Extension

Online tools and tutorials for program development and evaluation.

Violence Institute of New Jersey at UMDNJ

Searchable inventory of violence related survey instruments.

Measuring Violence-Related Attitudes, Behaviors, and Influences Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools - Second Edition

This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to assess violence-related beliefs, behaviors, and influences, as well as to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence.

Measuring Bullying Victimization, Perpetration, and Bystander Experiences: A Compendium of Assessment Tools

This compendium provides researchers, prevention specialists, and health educators with tools to measure a range of bullying experiences: bully perpetration, bully victimization, bully-victim experiences, and bystander experiences.

Center for HIV Identification, Prevention and Treatment Services Instrument Bank Directory

This site provides a directory of assessment tools on a variety of topics including mental health, family functioning, violence, HIV risk, substance abuse and more.

Market Makeovers

A dynamic, user-friendly online toolkit about the process of transforming small corner stores to carry healthier food choices.

Cause Communications

Cause Communications shares and elevates best practices from all sectors and explores how to apply them effectively in the social sector.

HealthyCity.org

A resource for service referrals and social change. You can search for community services, research, map and share community data, and consult their team for strategic advice.

California Health Interview Survey (CHIS)

AskCHIS is a tool that allows you to quickly search for health statistics on your county, region and state. AskCHIS draws upon the responses of more than 50,000 Californians interviewed by The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) – the largest state health survey in the United States.

Mapping Los Angeles

The LA Times Mapping Los Angeles Project has created an interactive neighborhood map of Los Angeles County. This regional map can be used as a portal to individual maps and statistics for 158 cities and unincorporated places and 114 neighborhoods within the city of Los Angeles.

2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being

The annual Data Book profiles the well-being of America’s children on a state-by-state basis and ranks states on 10 measures of well-being.

Childrennow.org - L.A. County Scorecard

The Scorecard provides a comprehensive picture of children's well-being, tracking 26 indicators over time, by race/ethnicity and relative to other California counties.

New! Cost of Injury Reports

WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive database system that provides customized reports of injury-related data. WISQARS^TM also provides cost estimates for injury deaths (including violent deaths) and nonfatal injuries where the patient was treated and released from a hospital or ED.

Dating Matters

This free, online course is available to educators, school personnel, youth leaders, and others working to improve the health of teens. It features interviews with leading experts, dynamic graphics and interactive exercises, and compelling storytelling to describe what teen dating violence is and how to prevent it.

Legal Community Against Violence

LCAV's web site provides detailed summaries of all federal and state firearm laws and local gun laws in selected states. The web site also provides an in-depth discussion of more than 30 firearm-related policies, and summaries of nearly all federal and state appellate cases interpreting the Second Amendment. In addition, the web site provides access to model laws, gun violence-related statistics, LCAV case studies, and a majority of the amicus curiae briefs we have filed in firearm-related litigation.