The Council tries to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur. They list dozens of things parents, teachers and community members can do to make schools safe in Stopping School Violence.

More than 2 million children across the country are being raised by relatives because their parents can't provide adequate care. Many of these kids are there because of a parent's alcohol or drug problem. Caitlin Johnson explores this issue, and a new training series that may help.

Instead of being "scared straight," youth who commit nonviolent crimes like shoplifting are learning about choices, consequences, and their own worth through community diversion programs like Neighborhood Youth Services in Duluth, Minnesota. One mother, whose 14-year-old son was arrested for shoplifting, says the experience changed her family's outlook.

Connect for Kids' Crime and Violence Prevention topic page links to groups and initiatives studying the best strategies to curb crime, and protect young victims from violence at home or in the neighborhood.

Injuries kill more kids than any disease. Accurate information, product safety alerts, and public health initiatives are important tools in the effort to protect kids. Connect for Kids offers resources.

Many parents remember childhood car rides spent standing up in the back of the car, or sitting in a grown-up's lap. Today, we take the need to restrain our children in motor vehicles as a given. But as Lisa Schulman reports, there's one place where safety restraints remain rare: the school bus.

This group's Violence Prevention Network works to reduce firearms and domestic violence. Firearm Factsheets are available in .pdf format. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

The first step in helping abused children is learning to recognize the symptoms of child abuse, according to Prevent Child Abuse America. Learn the signs of physical and emotional abuse, neglect and child maltreatment.

This is a summary of the Harvard University conference (May 2000) on the research and promising ideas for preventing youth violence, from the Urban Seminar Series on Children's Health and Safety newsletter. (You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.)

This organization provides creative, non-violent strategies for dealing with conflict by offering dispute resolution and conflict management training and technical assistance in developing conflict resolution programs and mediation services.