The Canadian National Crime Prevention Centre has a number of useful
resources/publications.
http://www.crime-prevention.org/index_ncpc.html
You might also want to look at the information on Positive Youth Development
from the Social Development Research Group, Washington.
http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/PositiveYouthDev99/index.htm
The Search Institute also has a wealth of information on development of
assets (as opposed to taking a risk approach)
http://www.search-institute.org/
Joyce Fox
----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan Lilley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 11:06 AM
Subject: Best practices for addressing youth violence (fwd)
> Hi again,
>
> I am passing this request for information about best practices
> for addressing youth violence, hoping that someone out there can help.
> I will forward any responses posted to the list to Cari and Christina,
> or you can reply directly to them at the addresses below.
> Thanks, Susan Lilley
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: [log in to unmask] (Christina
> SchulzeAllen)
> Organization: CYIWG
> CC: cari <[log in to unmask]>
>
> We, the Coordinators of the Sharing Strengths Society and
> Child & Youth Inter-sectoral Working Group, are in the
> process of developing a proposal, "Addressing Youth
> Violence: An Inter-sectoral, Integrated Approach for Western
> Nova Scotia", to garner funding to support a project across
> western Nova Scotia, Canada, that will, among other things,
> conduct an environmental scan of existing initiatives and
> programs, research 'best practices', and pilot an integrated
> approach to remedying youth violence - from the preventative
> to the remedial. For our purposes, 'youth' are young people
> aged 0-21, and 'violence' includes a range of behaviours
> ranging from disruptive or angry outbursts to bullying
> (e.g., intimidation, coercion, extortion), verbal abuse,
> threats, harassment, self-abuse, physical assault, sexual
> assault, and suicide.
>
> Our collective membership and stakeholders include a range
> of provincial and federal government departments and
> agencies, as well as community organizations.
>
> We are wondering whether others working in the fields of
> public health, cross-jurisdictional/inter-sectoral service
> development, or youth violence prevention/remediation might
> be aware of literature reviews, bibliographies, effective
> programs or similar fledgling efforts already in existence.
>
> We would really appreciate hearing from anyone who may have
> information or references to share with us as we would like
> to benefit from others' ideas and insights as we map out the
> trajectory for our new initiative, which we hope will
> improve the resiliency and outcomes of youth in our region.
>
> Many thanks,
> Cari Patterson & Christina Schulze-Allen
>
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