191021 Toll of violence on US youth: Getting to sustainable solutions through UNITY

Monday, October 27, 2008: 8:55 AM

Larry Cohen, MSW , Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation, Prevention Institute, Oakland, CA
     
Urban Networks to Increasing Thriving Youth through Violence Prevention (UNITY) highlights how prevention addresses the underlying contributors to violence, and offers a comprehensive framework as a solution to preventing violence and improving the quality of life for all communities. UNITY is a national initiative to support cities in building effective, sustainable efforts to prevent violence so that urban youth can thrive in safe environments with supportive relationships and opportunities for success. The UNITY RoadMap provides U.S. cities viable and effective strategies and tools to prevent violence, and lays the groundwork for building capacity, infrastructure and systems to support a prevention approach to violence.

Learning Objectives:
List at least three ways tha violence can be prevented in communities.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I have 35 years experience and expertise and am the Executive Director of Prevention Institute and have published many articles.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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