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	Hot Topics highlight recommended resource items, both online and in the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse library, on important service-learning related subjects. Educators are increasingly concerned about the problems of violence in US schools and communities. Service-learning provides both the social structure and the emotional support that can help counter youth violence, and provides a positive way for young people to connect with their communities. September 2005 (Updated June 2007)
	NSLC Site Resources At-Risk Youth, Juvenile Justice, Violence Prevention, Youth Courts and Service-Learning: Selected Resources Linking Title IV Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities & Service-Learning Prevention and K-12 Service-Learning (NSLC Fact Sheet) Relevant Links NSLC At-Risk Violence Prevention Links Center for the Prevention of School Violence Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center National Alliance for Safe Schools Interpersonal Violence Prevention Resource Guide: Stopping Youth Violence Before It Begins Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention North Carolina for the Prevention of School Violence Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Promoting Safe & Drug-Free Schools-An Internet Guide The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Recommended NSLC Library Items* (How to Borrow) Our Time is Now: Young People Changing the World (2005) Preventing Youth Violence Through the Promotion of Community Engagement and Membership (2004) Good Knight Crime and Violence Prevention Youth Mentoring Program Kit (2003) Step by Step to Safe Schools: The Program Planning Guide (2001) Less Hype, More Help: Reducing Juvenile Crime, What Works – And What Doesn't (2000) Safeguarding our Children: An Action Guide (2000) Developing a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan: a Practical Guide (1999) Service-Learning: An Education Strategy for Preventing School Violence (1999) Service-Learning as a Tool for Violence Prevention: An Annotated Topic Bibliography (1999) Early Warning Timely Response: a Guide to Safe Schools (1998) Youth Violence: Lessons from the Experts (1998) The Challenge of Violence (student edition) (1997) Violence Prevention and Service-Learning (1997) Related Hot Topic At-Risk Youth Effective Practices Working collaboratively to reduce juvenile gun crime in Boston Using criminal justice students for a community policing project	Featured Books   Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning: Improving Mandated Community Service for Juvenile Offenders (2006)   Developing a Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan: A Practical Guide (1999)
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	* Don't see your favorite resource listed? Please write to us atnslc@servicelearning.org and share your recommendations!
	Learn and Serve America programs, like all Corporation for National and Community Service programs are, by statute, focused on meeting community needs in the United States. If you receive Learn and Serve America funds, please consult with your program officer before conducting any service-learning projects that reach beyond the borders of the United States.

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