Greater than the Sum of their Parts: The benefits of Youth Violence Prevention Centers |
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Authors: | Deborah Azrael David Hemenway |
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Institution: | Harvard School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA. azrael@hsph.harvard.edu |
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Abstract: | Academic Centers for Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (ACE), which support a broad range of activities over and above RO1-type research projects, can add significantly to a community's capacity to respond to youth violence. We use the example of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center to describe the types of research-practice collaborations these centers can promote, as well as the ways in which these collaborations can foster adoption of program planning, development, implementation and evaluation practices consistent with evidence-based approaches to youth violence prevention. Throughout, we describe the ways in which the existence of a center led, under the ACE format, to research, policy and practice opportunities that would not have existed in the absence of a center. |
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Keywords: | Youth violence prevention Surveillance Academic-municipal collaboration |
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