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.

Safeyouth.org is a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications, research, and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens.

This listing from Parenting is Prevention provides email, website, and contact information for hundreds of parenting resources.

Coverage of the 2001 tragic school shooting in Santee, California included a chorus of voices saying Andy Williams' friends and schoolmates should have reported his threats. We asked some Virginia high school students to give us their thoughts.

Without a safe learning environment, teachers cannot teach and students cannot learn. Student safety is of concern outside of school as well. In fact, as the data in this report show, more serious victimizations happen away from school than at school. Read the report to learn more!

Although youth violence has been subsiding since 1993, the number of adolescents involved in violent behavior remains disconcertingly high, according to the Youth Violence Report released by Surgeon General David Satcher in January, 2001.

The Campaign's mission is to create a safer America for all youth to live, learn and grow. It actively works with youth and adults to fight youth on youth violence and develop violence prevention strategies.

Search for information on a particular drug of abuse, and review the latest public service announcements and press releases from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The 13th annual PRIDE National Survey of Student Drug Use and Violence found major progress had been made in reducing teen drug use, cigarette and alcohol use and gun carrying.