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Violence Prevention and Service-Learning: Selected Resources
  Source: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, updated March 2007.

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 Theoretical Resources
   Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. (1998). Blueprints for Violence Prevention. Boulder, CO: University of Colorado, Institute of Behavioral Science. [Full text online]
<http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/index.html>

Education Commission of the States. (1999). Service Learning: An Education Strategy for Preventing School Violence. Denver, CO: Author. [Full Text PDF]
<http://www.csuchico.edu/psed/servicelearning/images/subpages/
SL_AnEducationStrategy.pdf
>

Levins, Tracy (n.d.) Response to School Violence: Somebody Else's Problem. Texas Youth Commission Archive. [Full text online]
http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/archive/violence_levinscomment.html

Miller, F. & Webb, J. (1996). Theoretical Perspectives on Violence and Youth. Providence, RI: Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Brown University.
Prevention Institute. (2001). What Factors Foster Resiliency Against Violence? School Violence Prevention Fact Sheet No. 5. Oakland, CA: Author. [Full text online]
<http://www.preventioninstitute.org/schoolviol5.html>

RMC Research Corporation. (September 2005). Prevention and K-12 Service-Learning. Denver, CO: Author. [Full text online]
<http://servicelearning.org/instant_info/quick_guides/prevention/index.php
?search_term="at%20risk"%20youth
>

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2001) Youth violence: A report of the Surgeon General. [Full text online]
<http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence>
   
 Programs and Practices
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2000). Best Practices of Youth Violence Prevention: A Sourcebook for Community Action. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.

Constitutional Rights Foundation. (n.d.) I'm a VOICE: Ask Me (Violence-Prevention Outcomes in Civic Education). Chicago, IL: Author.

Fletch, Larry, Bhaerman, Bob & Romento, Cristina. (2005). Social Justice: Culminating Projects Tools for Students. Vancouver, WA: Service-Learning Northwest, Educational Service District 112.

Hess, Diana. (1997). Violence Prevention and Service Learning. Social Education.. 61 (5), 279- 281.

Integrating Community Building and Violence Prevention. (August 2003). A Final Report of the Institute for Community Peace and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. North Sioux City, SD: Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention.

Lions Quest Programs. (n.d.) K -5: Skills for Growing; Grades 6 -8: Skills for Adolescence; Grades 9 -12: Skills for Action. Newark, OH: Lions Clubs International. [Full text online]
<http:// www. lions-quest.org/program/grade_level_options.php>

Sausjord, Ingrid & Friedman, Lisa (1997). The Challenge of Youth Violence: Finding Our Role, Doing Our Part. Social Studies Review, 6 (2), 8-50.

Schinke, Stephen, Brounstein, Paul & Gardner, Stephen. (2002). Science-Based Prevention Programs and Principles. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Thomsen, Kate. (2002). Building Resilient Students: Integrating Resiliency Into What You Already Know and Do. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Corwin Press.

White House Council on Youth Violence. (2000). Helping Your Children Navigate Their Teenage Years: A Guide for Parents. Washington, DC: Author. [Full text online]
<http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/index.asp>.
   
 Research Studies
   Butts, Jeffrey A. (1999). Youth Violence: Perception Versus Reality. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. [Full text online]
<http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=410402>

Elliott, Delbert S., Hamburg, Beatrix A. & Williams, Kirk, R. (Eds.). (1998). Violence in American Schools: A New Perspective. Cambridge, UK: University Press.

Fetsch, Robert J. & Silliman, Ben (Winter/Spring 2002). Which Youth Violence Prevention Programs Work? The Forum for Family & Consumer Issues. 7 (1). [Full text online]
<http://ncsu.edu/ffci/publications/2002/v7-n1-2002-winter-spring/ar-1-youth.php>

Office of the Surgeon General. (2001). Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. [Full text online]
<http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence>.

Pereira, Carolyn & Rodriguez, Ken. (1997). Linking Violence Prevention and Good Social Studies: Research and Development. Social Education. 61 (5), 282-289.
   
 Resource Guides and Bibliographies
   Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. (2000). Communities That Care Prevention Strategies: A Research Guide to What Works. Seattle, WA: Author. [Full text online]
<http://www.channing-bete.com/positiveyouth/pages/CTC/CTC.html>.

Nadeau, Debra F., et al. (2002). Interpersonal Violence Prevention Resource Guide: Stopping Youth Violence Before It Begins. Albany, NY: New York State Center for School Safety. [Full Text PDF]
<http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/
0000019b/80/1b/33/00.pdf
>

Treacy, Ann. (1999). Service-Learning as a Tool for Violence Prevention: An Annotated Topic Bibliography. Scotts Valley, CA: National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

Wahler, James J., Fetsch, Robert J., & Silliman, Benjamin. (1997). Research-Based, Empirically-Effective Violence Prevention Curricula: A Review of Resources.   [Full Text Online]
<http://www.agnr.umd.edu/nnfr/violence/yvp_litrev.html>
   
 Websites
   Center for the Prevention of School Violence
<http://www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv />

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
<http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/>

Division of Violence Prevention/Center for Disease Control and Prevention
<http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm>

Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention
<http://www.higheredcenter.org/>

National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention
<
http://www.promoteprevent.org>

National Crime Prevention Council
<http://www.ncpc.org>

National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
<http://www.safeyouth.org/scripts/index.asp>

Promoting Safe & Drug-Free Schools-An Internet Guide
<http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/pathways/safeschools/>

Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative
<http://www.sshs.samhsa.gov>

U.S. Department of Education Safe and Drug Free Schools Program
<http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.html>

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
<http://prevention.samhsa.gov>
   
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