Youth Crime & Violence Prevention
Information Resources


The following Web sites can provide useful information, data and resources on ways to prevent youth crime and violence.

Resources Cited in the Report, Never Too Early, Never Too Late... To Prevent Youth Crime & Violence

After School Clearinghouse – California After School Partnership
http://gis.gse.uci.edu/gisweb/stateaslsnpp/viewer.htm

American Leadership Forum, National Office Web site
http://www.alfnational.org

Blueprints for Violence Prevention
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html

California Attorney General’s Youth Council on Violence Prevention
http://www.caag.state.ca.us/cvpc/youth/youth.htm

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence – University of Colorado
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/

Communities Count 2000 – Kings County, California
http://www.communitiescount.org/indicator_descrip.htm

Crime and Delinquency in California, 1999:  Arrests Part One
California Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services
http://caag.state.ca.us/cjsc/cd99/ar1.pdf

El Paso Youth Services Connection
http://www.elpasoyouth.com

Emotional Honesty (Emotional Health Education)
http://www.emotionalhonesty.com

Healthy People 2010
http://www.health.gov/healthypeople/default.htm

Healthy Start Works - Evaluation Report:  A Statewide Profile of Healthy Start Sites
California Department of Education
http://www.cde.ca.gov/healthystart/eval/evalworks.htm

Leading Causes of Death Reports
Centers for Disease Control, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html

Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works – and What Doesn’t
American Youth Policy Forum
http://www.ayfp.org/mendel/index.html

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/

National Funding Collaborative on Violence Prevention
http://www.nfcvp.org

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/

Oregon Progress Board
http://www.econ.state.or.us/opb

Pacific Center for Violence Prevention
http://www.pcvp.org

Safe School Initiative
United States Secret Service, National Threat Assessment Center
http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/ntac.htm

Teens, Crime and the Community – National Crime Prevention Council and Street Law, Inc.
http://www.nationaltcc.org

The Jigsaw Classroom
http://www.jigsaw.org

The Prevention Institute
http://www.preventioninstitute.org

Youth as Resources Program – National Crime Prevention Council
http://www.yar.org

Youth Crime Watch of America
http://www.ycwa.org
 

Resources Not Cited in the Report

After-School Programs: Keeping Children Safe and Smart
U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/afterschool/

California Attorney General's Crime and Violence Prevention Center
http://www.SafeState.org

National Youth Development Information Center
http://www.nydic.org

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising
University of Maryland, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice (February 1997)
http://www.ncjrs.org/works/index.htm

Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising
National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief (July 1998)
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/171676.pdf

Safe and Smart, Making the After-School Hours Work for Kids
U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice (June 1998)
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/SafeandSmart/

School-Based Conflict Resolution Programs, A California Resource Guide
Sacramento County Office of Education
http://www.scoe.net/pass/

SOME Things DO Make a Difference for Youth & MORE Things That DO Make a Difference
for Youth
American Youth Policy Forum (1999)
http://www.aypf.org/compendium/index.html

What Works: Promising Interventions in Juvenile Justice
National Center for Juvenile Justice (October 1994)
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/wworks.txt

Where Need Meets Opportunity: Youth Development Programs for Early Teens
Future of Children (Fall 1999)
http://www.futureofchildren.org/wso/exsum_22.pdf