Youth Violence Preventation and the Role of the Physician

Suggested Reading

Publications (Books, Papers, and Reports)

Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Beyond Saving Lives: The Critical Role of California's Open Door Providers in Addressing Violence
California Health Care Safety Net Institute

Confronting Chronic Neglect: The Education and Training of Health Professionals on Family Violence
Institute of Medicine

Creating Safe and Drug Free Schools
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools
U.S. Department of Education

Firearm Injury Prevention Resource Guide
American Academy of Pediatrics

Guide to Programs to Prevent Youth Violence
ERIC Clearinghouse- Wendy Schwartz

Healthy People 2010: Understanding and Improving Health (color version)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Healthy People 2010: Volume I (second edition)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Healthy People 2010: Volume II (second edition)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Healthy People Toolkit 2010: A Field Guide to Health Planning
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Highlights of the 2002-2003 National Youth Gang Survey
OJJDP

Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2005
BJS and NCES

Injury Fact Book 2001-2002
CDC/ NCIPC

Youth Violence Section

Kids and Guns
OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin

Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
Office of the Surgeon General

Mental Health: Culture, Race, and Ethnicity, A Supplement to Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General
Office of the Surgeon General

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports
CDC

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National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action
Office of the Surgeon General

Never Too Early, Never Too Late... To Prevent Youth Crime & Violence
Little Hoover Commission

New Directions from the Field: Victims' Rights and Services for the 21st Century
Office for Victims of Crimes

Positive Youth Development in the U.S.: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs
Catalano RF, Berglund ML, Ryan J, Lonczak HS, Hawkins JD.

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising: A Report to the US Congress
Sherman, Gottfredson, MacKenzie, Eck, Reuter, and Bushway

Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General
Office on Smoking and Health

Preventing Youth Hate Crime: A Manual for Schools and Communities
Safe and Drug Free Schools

The Prevention Researcher
Integrated Research Services, Inc.

QuickGuide to Violence Prevention Programs at California's Open Door Providers
California Health Care Safety Net Insitute

Safeguarding our Children: An Action Guide
U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education

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Surgeon General's Report for Kids about Smoking
Office on Smoking and Health

Systematic Review of Childhood Injury Prevention Interventions
Harborview Medical Center for Injury Prevention and Research Center

Training EMSC Providers in Violence Prevention
American Psychological Association

World Report on Violence and Health
World Health Organization

Youth Gang Series
OJJDP

Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General
Surgeon General David Satcher

Youth Violence: Locating and Using the Data
Children's Safety Network

Youth Violence Prevention in Latino Communities: A Resource Guide for MCH Professionals
Children's Safety Network

Youth and Violence: Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health: Connecting the dots to prevent violence
Commission on Youth Violence Prevention

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Youth Violence and the Health Professions: Core Competencies for Effective Practice
Lyndee Knox, USC Department of Family Medicine and the Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention

Preventive Services Guidelines for Children
Carefirst, Bluecross and Blueshield

For more articles check:

PubMed - National Library of Medicine
This is a bibliographic database of medical literature. This searchable database includes international literature relevant for violence prevention. Citations from approximately 3,900 current biomedical journals published in the U.S. and 70 foreign countries are included.

National Criminal Justice Reference Center
The NCJRS is one of most of the most extensive sources of information on criminal and juvenile justice in the world, providing services to an international community of policymakers and professionals. The clearinghouse provides information on corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice, statistics, drugs and crime, international resources, juvenile justice, law enforcement, research and evaluation, and victims.

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