- Adults and Children Together Against Violence
ACT Against Violence is a violence prevention project that focuses on adults who raise, care for, and teach children ages 0 to 8 years. It is designed to prevent violence by providing young children with positive role models and environments that teach nonviolent problem-solving. The project includes a national media campaign and training for community professionals.
actagainstviolence.apa.org
- Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Interdisciplinary foundation for understanding and preventing violence. Programs include a violence literature database, technical assistance and empirical research.
www.colorado.edu/cspv
- Georgetown Center for the Study of Violence
Established to conduct research on the causes of violence, to conduct intervention programs, and to provide education and consulting to communities and organizations.
www.gcsv.org
- Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse
Resources, references, teaching aids, conferences, and hypertext links examining issues of violence and abuse.
www.mincava.umn.edu
- Mothers Against Violence in Ameica
MAVIA is a nonprofit, non-partisan organization dedicated to reducing violence by and against children through preventive education and grassroots advocacy.
www.mavia.org
- National Center for Injury Prevention and Control: Division of Violence Prevention
CDC agency focusing on youth violence, family and intimate violence, suicide, and firearm injuries.
www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm
- National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center (NYVPRC)
Resources for professionals, parents, and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people.
www.safeyouth.org
- NCAVP: National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs
Providing national advocacy for local lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities.
www.ncavp.org
- Physicians for Social Responsibility@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Professional/Physicians_for_Social_Responsibility
- Release The Fear
Neighborhood program that teaches effective ways to communicate and deal with violence. Weapons are collected statewide and melted down to cast the Release the Fear sculpture.
www.releasethefear.org
- Safe Culture Project
Dedicated to the prevention of violence, bigotry, bullying, harassment, hazing, and cruel aggression in schools.
www.safeculture.com
- Southern California Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
Offers statistics, fact sheets, and other publications on youth violence.
www.stopyouthviolence.ucr.edu
- Stop the Violence
Founded by New York City police officer and devoted to preventing violence in urban America.
www.jedavis-stopviolence.org
- Stop the Violence...Face the Music Society
Offers a non-violent, anti-crime, anti-drug message through the use of music, videos, literature and public awareness.
www.stv.net
- V-Day@
dir.yahoo.com/.../Organizations/V_Day
- VDAY.org
V-Day generates broad attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.
www.vday.org
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