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Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action
Best Practices is the first of its kind to look at the effectiveness of specific violence prevention practices in four key areas: parents and families; home visiting; social and conflict resolution skills; and mentoring.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/bestpractices.htm


Peaceful Schools-Walking the Talk: Implementing Violence Prevention Efforts
Article offers and examination of different ways the education system can target and impact violence prevention work.
http://www.nwrel.org/request/oct98/article7.html


Steps Parents Can Take to Stop School Violence
A fact sheet from the National Crime Prevention Council of 12 concrete steps parents can take as a beginning to fight violence.
http://www.nwrel.org/comm/monthly/stepscanstop.html


Students Victimization At School - National Center For Education Statistics
Report presents information from 1993 National Household Education Survey. Statistics are based upon responses of students in grades 6-12.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSDFS/actguid/finding1.html


Violence Prevention Publications at SafetyZone.org
Provides links to many anti-violence documents.
http://www.safetyzone.org/publications.html



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