Preventing Youth Violence
Youth violence and crime affect a community's economic health, as well as individuals' physical and mental health and well-being. Homicide is the second leading cause of death for youth in our country. In 2008, more than 656,000 young people ages 10-24 were treated in emergency departments for injuries sustained from violence. 1
Each neighborhood and community has unique experiences with violence and different resources available to them. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to preventing youth violence. However, communities can help reduce youth violence by developing a city-wide strategy that combines prevention, intervention, treatment, and re-entry strategies. The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention is working with communities to design these strategies. Learn more »
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Attorney General Eric Holder Expands National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention to Ten Cities Attorney General Eric Holder and Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) Mary Lou Leary today announced that four new cities would join a White House initiative to prevent youth violence. New Orleans, Philadelphia, Minneapolis and Camden, N.J., will join the six original cities in the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention (Forum) to reduce youth violence and gang activity and improve public safety. |
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April 2012 Summit on Preventing Youth Violence Representatives from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Salinas, and San Jose gathered in Washington, DC on April 2 and 3, 2012 for the second Summit on Preventing Youth Violence. |
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Health Centers as Partners in Youth Violence Prevention For more than 45 years, Health Resources and Services Administration supported health centers have delivered comprehensive, high-quality primary health care to patients regardless of their ability to pay. |
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Justice Department Research Shows That School-Level Interventions Reduce Dating Violence by up to 50 Percent The Department of Justice today announced new research from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) that finds school-level interventions reduced dating violence among middle school students by up to 50 percent in 30 New York City public schools. |
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National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Working Session 2011 Representatives from Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Memphis, Salinas, and San Jose gathered in Washington, DC on October 31 and November 1, 2011 for the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Working Session. |
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Cities Working Together to Reduce Youth Violence The National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention (the Forum) is an interagency effort for localities to share knowledge and experience in what works and what doesn't work in preventing youth and gang related violence. |
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CDC Awards $4.5M to Prevent Youth Violence in Four STRYVE Communities The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today an award totaling $4.5 million to be divided among four public health departments that were selected to participate in a youth violence prevention demonstration project over a period of five years. |
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Six Cities Present Plans to Reduce and Prevent Youth Violence Officials from Boston; Chicago; Detroit; Memphis, Tenn.; Salinas, Calif.; and San Jose, Calif., have spent the past several months preparing plans detailing how they can work within their communities to address youth violence. |
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Gang Prevention: An Overview of Research and Programs The recent Juvenile Justice bulletin, published by the U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Programs (OJJDP), presents a compilation of current research on gangs, including data on the state of gang problems in the United States today, why youth join gangs... |
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Creating Violence-Free, Healthy, and Prospering Communities Requires Your Voice Youth violence destroys quality of life and decreases the freedom, health, and prosperity of individuals, families, and communities. Unaddressed youth violence and crime negatively affect our communities' physical, mental, and economic health and challenges our ability to educate, grow, and prosper. |
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CDC's Division of Violence Prevention Offers Online Course on Principles of Prevention Each year, more than 50,000 people lose their lives to violence. In addition to the tremendous physical and emotional toll, violence has substantial medical and lost productivity costs. In 2000, these totaled more than $70 billion in the United States. |
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Dating Matters: Understanding Teen Dating Violence Prevention Early efforts to promote healthy, respectful dating relationships are more likely to prevent dating violence before the problem begins. |
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Safe Youth, Safe Schools More than 55 million young people will return to school in the United States this fall. While schools remain relatively safe, any amount of violence is unacceptable. Students, parents, teachers, and administrators expect schools to be safe havens of learning. |
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The FindYouthInfo Program Directory features evidence-based programs whose purpose is to prevent and/or reduce delinquency or other problem behaviors in young people. Search the Directory |
This new website is a central, credible resource to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. Read more... |
To simplify your funding search, we've developed a custom search tool that allows you to search Grants.gov by Youth Topic or Federal Agency. Find funding opportunities for prevention through reentry.
Over the past 10 years, the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs (OJP) has provided 52,000 funding awards to the criminal justice community totaling more than $26 billion. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2009, OJP awarded 4,900 grants totaling more than $2.5 billion. In FY 2009, OJP also awarded an additional 3,883 Recovery Act grants totaling more than $2.74 billion to state and local and tribal law enforcement and community organizations.
Most of OJP’s funding programs are highly competitive; hundreds of grant proposals are received for the same funding opportunities. The Grants 101 site will help you navigate the process:
