A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Preventive of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences. These strategies include promoting family environments that support healthy development; providing quality education early in life; strengthening youth’s skills; connecting youth to caring adults and activities; creating protective community environments; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk.

This package supports CDC’s STRYVE initiative for preventing youth violence. In particular, this package articulates a select set of strategies and specific approaches to achieve STRYVE’s vision of safe and healthy youth achieving their full potential.

Acknowledgements...................................................................................................................................... 5

Partner Review ............................................................................................................................................. 5

Overview ...................................................................................................................................................... 7

Promote Family Environments that Support Healthy Development..............................................................15

Provide Quality Education Early in Life.........................................................................................................18

Strengthen Youth’s Skills ................................................................................................................................21

Connect Youth to Caring Adults and Activities................................................................................................25

Create Protective Community Environments...................................................................................................29

Intervene to Lessen Harms and Prevent Future Risk........................................................................................33

Benefits Relative to Costs..................................................................................................................................37

Sector Involvement ...........................................................................................................................................39

Monitoring and Evaluation...............................................................................................................................41

Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................................42

References..........................................................................................................................................................43

Appendix: Summary of Strategies and Approaches to Prevent Youth Violence...............................................60

Public health agencies, parents, youths, community youth centers and help centers, local and state first responders.