A Comprehensive Technical Package for the Prevention of Youth Violence and Associated Risk Behaviors

This technical package represents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences.

Hospitals as a Locus for Violence Intervention

The authors address violent injury as a reccurrent problem and highlight the teachable moment that occurs after a violent injury.

high risk, history, trauma-informed careHAVI GeneralJanuary 1, 2015Purtle J, Corbin TJ, Rich LJ, Rich JA

Hospital-based violence intervention programs save lives and money

HVIPs combine brief in-hospital intervention with intensive community-based case management and provide targeted services to high-risk populations to reduce risk factors for reinjury and retaliation while cultivating protective factors.

Effectiveness of a Mentor-Implemented, Violence Prevention Intervention for Assault-Injured Youths Presenting to the Emergency Department: Results of a Randomized Trial

The goal was to assess the impact of a mentor-implemented, violence prevention intervention in reducing aggression, fighting, and reinjury among assault-injured youths.

Criminal correlates of injury-related emergency department recidivism

To investigate criminal and high-risk lifestyle factors that predict emergency department (ED) recidivism, a longitudinal (8-year) cohort study of ED trauma patients was conducted.

law enforcement, high risk, social determ. of healthHAVI GeneralFebruary 1, 2007Claassen CA, Larkin GL, Hodges G, Field C

Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs Work

Our Violence Intervention Program (VIP) conducted a prospective randomized control study to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention for repeat victims of violence.

Recurrent intentional injury

The authors have observed two groups of assault-related injured patients at the District of Columbia General Hospital Level I urban trauma center to determine the magnitude of this phenomenon in the patient population, to examine the characteristics of such a group of patients, and to identify the risk factors that predispose to repeated assault-related injuries.

urban, high risk, social determ. of healthHAVI GeneralMay 1, 1992WA Goins, J Thompson, C Simpkins

Urban trauma: a chronic recurrent disease

Urban trauma, often presumed to be an acute episodic event, may actually be a chronic recurrent disease related to the lifestyle, environment, and other factors of its victims.