title: Practitioners' forum: public health and the primary prevention of adolescent violence--the violence prevention project.
abstract: The Violence Prevention Project is a community-based outreach and education project directed toward reducing the negative social and medical outcomes of violence among adolescents. Community agency personnel are trained to work with youth on issues of anger and conflict resolution. A mass media campaign advertises the issue to the broader population. Interventions, such as the Violence Prevention Project, can use the public health strategies to increase awareness of the problem and associated risk factors, provide alternative conflict resolution techniques, and generate a new community ethos around violence. This approach holds great promise in an area in which after-the-fact legislative and punitive interventions have not worked.
authors.affiliation: Health Promotion Program for Urban Youth, Boston Department of Health and Hospitals.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Spivak
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hausman
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prothrow-Stith
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003479:Curriculum; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011634:Public Health; D012307:Risk Factors; D014754:Violence