Adverse Childhood Experiences
May 10, 2013 | Feature/Infographic
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of ACEs and the need to develop effective innovative interventions.
Community Violence
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High School Students Map Five Flashpoints and Suggest Ways to Defuse Them
July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey held the 1999 Youth Summit on Violence in Newark on May 17, 1999, attended by 400 New Jersey high school students.
Streetworkers Mediate Gang Violence and Connect Teens to Health Services in Lowell, Mass.
November 20, 2008 | Program Result Report
From 2003 to 2007, the United Teen Equality Center hired two outreach workers who worked with members of seven of the most active Southeast Asian youth gangs in Lowell, Mass., to reduce violence and improve teens' access to health care.
Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children
June 14, 2013 | Program Result Report
Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children was a 10-year, $63 million program to improve community-wide outcomes for children in five cities: Baltimore; Detroit; Oakland, Calif.; Philadelphia; and Richmond, Va.
Stopping Teen Dating Violence in New Jersey with Safe Dates
June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2011, eight projects implemented Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention program, in middle and high schools through New Jersey Health Initiatives, which supports projects that improve the health and health care of state residents.
Three Organizations Win Changemakers' Competition for Innovative Solutions to the Challenges Facing Young Men
July 8, 2009 | Program Result Report
Ashoka Innovators for the Public sponsored a worldwide online open-source collaborative competition through its Changemakers initiative to find innovative solutions to the societal challenges facing young men at risk.
Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children
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Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.
How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge Assumptions of Neighborhood Place-Based Interventions
January 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This study specifically looked at cross-sectional data of teens aged 10 to 18 from Baltimore, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Richmond, Va. SAY sampling generated 1,723 telephone interviews with parents in the four cities.
Safe Dates Teaches Teenagers the Difference Between Healthy and Abusive Relationships
November 22, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Princeton Center for Leadership Training partnered with 13 New Jersey high schools to implement Safe Dates, a dating abuse prevention curriculum, as part of the New Jersey Health Initiatives program.
Lifting Boats Without Closing Gaps
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.