Appendix: Summary of Strategies and

Approaches to Prevent Youth Violence

Best Available Evidence
Approach/Program, Youth Youth Risk/Protective
Strategy Lead Sectors1
Practice or Policy Violence Violence Factors for
Perpetration Victimization Youth Violence
Early childhood home visitation Public health
Health care
Nurse Family Partnership®
Social services
Promote Family
Parenting skill and family relationship programs
Environments
that Support The Incredible Years®
Healthy Parent Management Training—
Development Public health
Oregon Model™
Strengthening Families 10–14 Education

Coping Power

Familias Unidas™

Preschool enrichment with family engagement Public health

Provide Quality
Education Early Child Parent Centers Social services
in Life
Early Head Start Education

Universal school-based programs

Good Behavior Game

Strengthen Public health
Promoting Alternative THinking
Youth’s Skills Strategies® Education
Life Skills® Training

Steps to Respect

Mentoring programs Community

organizations
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Connect Youth to of America Education
Caring Adults and After-school programs Community
Activities Los Angeles’ Better Educated organizations
Students for Tomorrow
Education
After School Matters

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 Best Available Evidence
Approach/Program, Youth Youth Risk/Protective
Strategy Lead Sectors1
Practice or Policy Violence Violence Factors for
Perpetration Victimization Youth Violence
Modify the physical and social environment
Business
Business Improvement Districts
Government
Crime Prevention through (local, state)
Environmental Design
Reduce exposure to community-level risks Business
Create Protective
Community Tax credits Housing
Environments Alcohol policies Government
(outlet density, pricing) (local, state)
Street outreach and community norm change Public health
Cure Violence Community
Safe Streets organzations

Treatment to lessen the harms of violence exposures Health care

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Social services
N/A2 N/A2
Behavioral Therapy®
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Community
N/A2 N/A2 organizations
for Trauma in Schools
Treatment to prevent problem behavior and future involvement in violence
Intervene to Health care
Lessen Harms Functional Family Therapy
and Prevent Multidimensional Treatment Social services
Future Risk Foster Care
Justice
Multisystemic Therapy®

Hospital-community partnerships Health care

SafERteens Community
Caught in the Crossfire organizations

1
This column refers to the lead sectors well positioned to bring leadership and resources to implementation efforts. For each strategy, there
are many other sectors, such as non-governmental organizations, that are instrumental to prevention planning and implementing the specific
programmatic activities.
2
The program is designed to lessen the harms of violence exposures (e.g., post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, behavioral problems)

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