Parent & Teen Universities, Inc. is a non-profit organization established to help parent, educators and law enforcement officers to understand and connect with teenagers.

The deadly school shooting in Red Lake, Minnesota has been a brutal reminder of the persistence of gun violence in our schools and communities. What can we say to help children feel safe? And what can we do to try and insure that they really are? Connect for Kids has pulled togethe information and resources.

In a position paper published in January, the Society for Adolescent Medicine noted the need for rigorous research to try to understand the reasons for and the long-run consequences of bullying in elementary and secondary schools in the United States.

Schools have adopted a surprisingly large and diverse array of activities, curricular programs and security measures to address problem behaviors among students, but many of these are unproven or poorly implemented. This federal National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools identifies key characteristics of successful programs and how schools can improve quality and implementation.

This searchable database offers abstracts of youth development reports,
journal articles, and other helpful documents.

Nonprofit and non-partisan, Voices for Virginia's Children is a persistent voice of reason in advocating for better lives and futures for children. The Commonwealth's only statewide multi-issue organization advocating for children and youth, Voices promotes sound, far-reaching program and policy solutions, focusing on early care and education, health care, family economic success, and foster care and adoption.

Voices for Utah Children promotes sound, far reaching program and policy solutions that focus on early care and education, health care, child welfare and violence prevention.

The Texas Kids Count project is working to build a better understanding of the conditions facing all children in Texas. The Center for Public Policy Priorities is now hosting a comprehensive database of indicators of child well-being. The data are used to produce fact books and other analyses on the status of children in Texas. In addition to the fact books, the Texas Kids Count Project is producing a series of special reports.

The mission of the D.C. Children's Trust Fund is to foster the well-being of the District's children and their families by leading the way toward the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The Trust serves as a catalyst for prevention efforts by leveraging private and governmental resources, providing resources and technical assistance to community-based organizations, schools, and churches to strengthen families and thereby reduce the risk of child abuse. A major objective of the Trust is to define and develop standards for primary prevention for the D.C. community at-large.

A National Institutes of Health panel reports that punitive "get tough" approaches that try to scare young offenders away from violent behavior - boot camps, group detention centers, or putting young people in adult jails - may actually worsen the problem.