The Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center is only one of the ten National Academic Centers of Excellence (ACEs) on Youth Violence Prevention being funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). See the following to learn more about the other seven centers:

 

CENTER FOR CULTURE, IMMIGRATION AND YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Franklin Zimring, JD - Principal Investigator
2420 Bowditch Street, MC 5670
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5670

 

CHICAGO CENTER FOR YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Deborah Gorman-Smith, PhD - Principal Investigator
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 
Department of Psychiatry  
1313 east 60th Street 
Chicago, Il 60637

 

COLUMBIA CENTER FOR YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Bruce Link, PhD - Principal Investigator
The Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University
New York State Psychiatric Institute
722 West 168th Street, 16th Fl
New York, NY 10032
www.mailman.columbia.edu/academic-departments/centers/columbia-center-youth-violence-prevention

 

HARVARD YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION CENTER

David Hemenway, PhD - Principal Investigator
Harvard School of Public Health
677 Huntington Ave., 3rd Fl.
Boston, MA 02115
www.hsph.harvard.edu/hyvpc

 

JOHNS HOPKINS CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF YOUTH VIOLENCE

Philip Leaf, PhD - Principal Investigator
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
624 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
www.jhsph.edu/preventyouthviolence/index.html

 

NASHVILLE YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION UPACE

Meharry Medical College

1005 Dr. D.B. Todd Jr. Blvd.

Nashville, Tennessee 37208

 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACADEMIC CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ON YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION

Nancy Guerra, EdD - Principal Investigator
Department of Psychology, Olmsted Hall
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521
stopyouthviolence.ucr.edu/index.html

 VCU INSTITUTE FOR POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Albert Farrell, PhD - Principal Investigator
Department of Psychology
Virginia Commonwealth University
P.O. Box 842018
Richmond, VA 23284-2018

 

 

CDC Youth Violence Fact Sheet

 

Community Toolbox

Development Services Group Home page

Helping America's Youth

National Center for Education Statistics Home page

National Center for Education Statistics ("Indicators of School Crime and Safety")nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/crime_safe04/references.asp

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (Youth "Risk & Protective Factors")

 

National Criminal Justice Reference Service ("Comprehensive Approaches to Gang Problems")

National Youth Gang Center Home Page

National Youth Gang Center ("Addressing Community Gang Problems")

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

OJJDP Model Programs Guide

Positive Youth Development (by Channing Bete Company) About Risk and Protective Factors

Title V Community Prevention Grants Program

Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General