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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Prevention Resources for Action for Violence Prevention

About this resource:

HHS Non-systematic Review

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Last Reviewed: April 2024

Workgroups: Injury and Violence Prevention Workgroup, Mental Health and Mental Disorders Workgroup

These Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Prevention Resources for Action provide information to help states and communities use the best available evidence to prevent violence. Resources are available on these topics:

  • Adverse childhood experiences
  • Child abuse and neglect
  • Community violence
  • Intimate partner violence
  • Sexual violence
  • Suicide

Each resource includes strategies, approaches for advancing the strategies, and evidence to support them.

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Objectives related to this resource (12)

Reduce fatal injuries — IVP‑01
Getting worse
Reduce homicides — IVP‑09
LHI label
Getting worse
Reduce nonfatal physical assault injuries — IVP‑10
Little or no detectable change
Reduce physical fighting among adolescents — IVP‑11
Target met or exceeded
Reduce gun carrying among adolescents — IVP‑12
Target met or exceeded
Reduce firearm-related deaths — IVP‑13
Getting worse
Reduce nonfatal firearm-related injuries — IVP‑14
Baseline only
Reduce child abuse and neglect deaths — IVP‑15
Getting worse
Reduce nonfatal child abuse and neglect — IVP‑16
Target met or exceeded
Reduce adolescent sexual violence by anyone — IVP‑17
Getting worse
Reduce sexual or physical adolescent dating violence — IVP‑18
Getting worse
Reduce emergency department visits for nonfatal intentional self-harm injuries — IVP‑19
Little or no detectable change

Suggested Citation

1.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. (2024). Violence Prevention — Prevention Resources for Action. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/violence-prevention/php/resources-for-action/index.html