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

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah

Spivak, Howard R.

Teen & Young Adult

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

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