Youth Violence Prevention

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Youth Violence Prevention

• Lloyd B. Potter, PhD, MPH

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Childrens Safety Network Three Resource Centers

• National Injury and Violence Prevention Resource
  Center
• National Childrens Center for Rural and
  Agricultural Health and Safety
• Economics and Data Analysis Resource Center

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The Public Health Approach to Prevention
Assess the Problem Whats the problem?
Identify the Causes Why does it happen?
Implementation Dissemination How do you do
it?
Develop Evaluate Programs Policies What
works?
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Injury Prevention Elements

• Surveillance
• Regulation and legislation
• Research
• State and local programs
• Public support

Reducing the Burden of Injury, IOM, 1999
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Ten leading causes of death for persons aged
10-14 years, United States, 2000
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Ten leading causes of death for persons aged
15-19 years, United States, 2000
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KEY PROGRAM COMPONENTS

• INJURY PREVENTION COORDINATOR
• FUNDING
• ADVOCACY
• NEEDS ASSESSMENT
• DATA IMPROVEMENT
• INTERVENTION PLAN
• SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE FOR LOCAL PROGRAMS
• EVALUATION
• COLLABORATION

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Spheres of Influence Ecological perspective of
development
Society
Community
Family/Peers
Individual
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Level of Intervention

• Indicated - Individual, very high risk groups
• Selective - higher risk population
• Universal - general population

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Bullying Prevalence

• Grades 6-10
• 30 were involved in bully/victim problems
  several times or more
• 17 had been bullied
• 19 had bullied others
• 6 bullied and were bullied

Source Nansel et al. (2001)
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HRSA/MCHB Bullying Campaign
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Bullying What Works?

• A change in the school climate and in norms for
  accepted behavior.
• A comprehensive, school-wide effort involving the
  entire school community
• Prominent example The Olweus Bullying
  Prevention Program.

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Youth Violence A Report of the Surgeon General
www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence
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Best Practices Interventions

• Intervention types demonstrated to be effective
  in reducing violent behavior
• Home visitation
• Parent training
• Mentoring
• Social cognitive

www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm
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Basic Program Steps

• description of the communitys problem
• set goals and objectives
• select and appropriate intervention
• identify participant groups
• select a setting
• locate resources

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Problems identified that effective delivery of
programs

• partnerships - poorly established
• organizational readiness - lack of institutional
  support
• age-appropriateness of the intervention
• staff selection and training
• evaluation planning

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Blueprints for Violence Prevention
www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
(CSPV), at the University of Colorado at Boulder
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Challenges and Opportunities

• Coordination and Collaboration
• Strengthening Capacity for Research and Practice
• Integrating the Field
• Nurturing Public Support
• Promoting Informed Policy Making

Reducing the Burden of Injury, IOM, 1999