With strategies ranging from local initiatives to federal funding streams, this report shares various ways six UNITY cities finance their prevention efforts. Learn about increasing the impact of...
UNITY
For the fundamentals on UNITY, we invite you to begin with these publications:
- UNITY RoadMap: A Framework for Effectiveness and Sustainability
- A Guidebook to Strategy Evaluation
- An Assessment of Youth Violence Prevention Activities in U.S.A. Cities
You can also find strategies, tools and resources on this topic in our UNITY initiative area, or browse all related publications, below.
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May 7, 2012
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March 21, 2012
In this essay, UNITY Co-Chair Deborah Prothrow-Stith calls on criminal justice to partner with public health and work together to prevent violence before it occurs. Part of The Sentencing Project's...
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February 1, 2012
R.T. Rybak Mayor R.T. Rybak resolved to prevent violence upon leaving a child's funeral, and he has seen first-hand how the public health approach has transformed Minneapolis. Read this UNITY...
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February 1, 2012
Read the UNITY Advisory Meeting summary to learn the advantages of sparking a social movement that saves lives and fosters thriving youth. Representatives of the UNITY Steering Committee, partner...
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January 1, 2012
Looking to prevent violence and not just react after the fact? This UNITY fact sheet highlights how public health adds value to any effort to address violence and complements criminal justice...
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December 1, 2011
Since its inception in 2005, UNITY has built support for effective, scalable and sustainable efforts to prevent violence before it occurs. This publication shares UNITY's lessons learned and...
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December 1, 2011
The circumstances of where and how you are born, grow up, live, work and grow old shape your health. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's issue brief, Exploring the Social Determinates of Health-...
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November 4, 2011
The "Social and Economic Costs of Violence-Workshop Summary" released by the Institute of Medicine presents a comprehensive framework for thinking about the impact of violence, exploring costs beyond...
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October 1, 2011
Part of UNITY's City Voices and Perspectives series, Blueprint for Action-Preventing Violence in Minneapolis demonstrates how developing and implementing a strategic plan grounded in prevention is...
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September 26, 2011
In this City Voices and Perspectives publication, Denver City Councilman Paul D. López describes innovative strategies that simultaneously address both gang violence and the lack of healthy,...
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September 23, 2011
Violence and fear of violence are major factors that undermine health and worsen health disparities, and this fact sheet describes violence and lack of safety as a health equity issue.
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September 1, 2011
Comprehensive evidence-based decisions require the best available research, professional insights and contextual realities. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's new report Understanding...
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August 19, 2011
Partnerships are a key for ensuring that all children in Chicago are safe, healthy and educated, says Christopher Mallette, formerly of the Office of the Mayor. Mallette describes the benefits of...
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June 1, 2011
Neighborhood networks form the core of the Seattle Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, and Director Mariko Lockhart describes the Initiative's collaborative approach and how to measure outcomes in...
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June 1, 2011
In partnership with the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and Safe States Alliance, UNITY hosted a meeting of state health officials in May 2011 on preventing violence in...
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May 13, 2011
Violence has far-reaching consequences for young people, families and neighborhoods, beyond serious physical injury and death. These fact sheets describe how violence affects other health problems...
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March 1, 2011
Navigating the politics of evaluation is one component of Policy Priorities for Preventing Violence. Susan Lee of Advancement Project describes Los Angeles's comprehensive solution to gang violence,...
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January 25, 2011
James Mercy explains how violence literally makes people sick and he recommends solutions to the problem in "Prevent Violence for Better Public Health," part of the Making the Case series. "Violence...
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December 20, 2010
Urban Networks to Increase Thriving Youth (UNITY) builds support for effective, sustainable efforts to prevent violence before it occurs, so that urban youth can thrive in safe environments with...
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December 3, 2010
Kamala Harris, the California attorney general, detailed her Smart on Crime approach during a UNITY webinar in 2010 when she was San Francisco's district attorney. Read excerpts from her conversation...
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