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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.

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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.

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Characterizing the teachable moment: is an emergency department visit a teachable moment for intervention among assault-injured youth and their parents?

We sought to operationalize the teachable moment (TM) construct and to determine whether an emergency department (ED) visit was a TM for intervention among assault-injured adolescents and their parents.

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