Multimedia Resources

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Video

Dating Matters®

Description: Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s teen dating violence prevention initiative. CDC developed Dating Matters®, a comprehensive teen dating violence prevention initiative based on the current evidence about what works in prevention. Dating Matters® focuses on 11– to 14–year–olds in high-risk, urban communities. It includes preventive strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods.

Questions to Consider:

1. Review the text regarding protective factors. After viewing the video, how does this program provide protective factors for youth?

 

How Prisons Can Help Inmates Live Meaningful Lives

Description: Dan Pacholke, deputy secretary for the Washington State Department of Corrections, shares a different vision: of prisons that provide humane living conditions as well as opportunities for meaningful work and learning.

Questions to Consider:

1. What are some of the things Dan Pacholke states will make a difference and reduce the violent behaviors of inmates?

 

CeaseFire: Stopping Violence and Measuring Impact

Description: CeaseFire is an innovative violence prevention organization based at the University of Illinois’s School of Public Health that applies public health principles in its approach to stopping violence.

Questions to Consider:

1. In this article, what are identified as some of the ongoing challenges to the program?

 

Related Article

Chicago Drops CeaseFire From Anti-Violence Strategy

Description: Sara Childress reports for PBS Frontline on how the city of Chicago has cut funding for a model antiviolence program, deciding to focus instead on community policing and other strategies to combat the city’s high murder rate.

Questions to Consider:

1. Why did Chicago cut funding to the CeaseFire program?

 

A Researcher Explains the Sad Truth: We Know How to Stop Gun Violence. But We Don't Do It.

Description: Journalist German Lopez reached out to Thomas Abt, a senior research fellow for the Innovation in Citizen Security Project with The Growth Lab at the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University and Harvard Kennedy School to get his views on gun issues, how to frame the debate around fighting crime, and what the evidence shows the solutions should be.

Questions to Consider:

1. Based upon this article, what is the “big conclusion” for reducing crime and violence without gun control?

 

Web

Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence: A Strategic Vision for Connecting the Dots

Description: This is a publication of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The purpose of this publication is to promote understanding and to address the interconnections between the different forms of violence—child abuse and neglect, youth violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, elder abuse, and suicidal behavior.

Questions to Consider:

1. What are the four key areas that The Division of Violence Prevention at the CDC plan to focus on?