UNITY: Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth Through Violence Prevention

Prevention Institute launches youth violence prevention initiative

“Most cities have an emergency preparedness and an economic development strategy but have no youth violence prevention strategy.”

- Larry Cohen, Executive Director of Prevention Institute.

With funding from the Centers  for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Prevention Institute, the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of California, Los Angeles Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center are launching UNITY. UNITY will strengthen urban youth violence prevention by building support and momentum for sustainable public health approaches to youth violence.

UNITY will focus primarily on the nation’s 45 largest cities. The initiative will engage youth and city representatives, along with national-level violence prevention advocates and leaders as part of a National Consortium to shape strategy for urban youth violence prevention. UNITY will provide the tools, training, and technical assistance needed for cities to be most effective in preventing youth violence. UNITY is an opportunity to learn, share, and participate in a visionary collaborative effort to build a national strategy and movement to ensure the well-being of our nation’s youth.

Join us for an introduction to and discussion of UNITY on Monday December 12, 2005 at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting at the Loews Hotel, Congress A, 4th Floor in Philadelphia. Dr. Rodney Hammond, Director of Violence Prevention at the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control will be speaking, as well as Representative Dwight Evans of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, who will discuss the successful collaborative process that led to “Blueprint for a Safer Philadelphia.” 

Read more about UNITY, sign up to receive UNITY updates or contact Lissette Flores (lissette@63.134.213.124) for more information.

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