Explores the psychological and social causes of violence among young, often poor and Black, males, and offers ideas for dealing with the problem

Deadly Consequences/How Violence Is Destroying Our Teenage Population and a Plan to Begin Solving the Problem

Weissman, Michaele

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah

Teen & Young Adult

Harpercollins

Health Skills for Wellness - Teacher's Edition

Health Skills for Wellness - Teacher's Edition

Education & Teaching

Crumpler, Kathy Teer

Pruitt, B.E.

Schools & Teaching

Pearson\Prentice Hall

The Prentice Hall Health program makes health exciting for students and provides teachers with the resources they need to support content and academic achievement. By integrating into the program the Teens Talk Video Series, developed in partnership with Discovery Channel, Pearson makes health relevant to students. The videos, which support every chapter in the book, stimulate classroom discussion of the content and skills essential to successful health education. An unparalleled array of ancillaries and technology, including a variety of differentiated instruction components, enables Prentice Hall Health to meet the needs of every student at every learning level.

Human Sexuality: Health

Self-Help

Allegrante, John P.

Authors Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak― two prominent Boston-area public health officials who played leading roles in that city's turnaround― show that the key to Boston's success was creating an interdisciplinary citywide movement. The city's movement― made up of educators, community leaders, police officers, emergency room workers, activist teens, teen and family member survivors of violence, and many others― worked for more than ten years to implement multifaceted preventive programs that confronted each risk factor for youth violence, including 
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Positive Role Models: Peer mentoring and teacher-training programs</li> <li>
Healthy and Safe Communities: Youth centers, after-school programs, and other organized recreational activities</li> <li>
Poverty: Economic stimulus policies to help reduce poverty in inner-city and rural areas</li> <li>
Pro-Social Behaviors: Conflict resolution and violence prevention curricula in schools</li> <li>
Domestic Violence: Home visitation programs and screening to protect kids from domestic violence</li> <li>
Gun Buybacks: Reduction in the number of firearms on the streets</li> </ul>

Murder Is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America

Spivak, Howard R.

Jossey-Bass

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence--hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder--by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.

Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Violence Prevention Curriculum for Adolescents (Teenage Health Teaching Modules)

Education Development Center

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