We have gathered a lot of web documents on preventing violence through
school-community action at:
http://www.safehealthyschools.org
Select the "safe schools" on the left hand margin.

The site provides links to over 2000 research and resource documents
organized by topics.

Doug McCall
Executive Director
Canadian Association for School Health

At 03:06 PM 7/5/01 +0000, you wrote:
>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