Culturally Responsive Programming as a Violence Prevention Strategy
This report describes a youth leadership and development program rooted in indigenous and Latinx cultural traditions that has had tremendous impact with at-risk young people in California public schools.
Improving Family Engagement Through Culturally Responsive School-Based Outreach
This report looks at how Community Health Engagement Workers or Promotores can support students and their families to mitigate absenteeism, which often leads to violence and justice-involvement for young people.
Culturally Driven School Safety Strategies
This webinar is part of a series on the Comprehensive School-Based Violence and Victimization Program from LISC Safety & Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). DOJ OJJDP provides national leadership, coordination, and resources to prevent and respond to youth delinquency and victimization.
School Safety and Wellness Spaces
This webinar will include an exploration of the various types of wellness spaces being used, staffing for rooms, and examples from two CYVP sites.
Tools to Guide Sustainability Planning
A recap from OJJDP grantees of the programs, structures and staff positions created to improve the ability of schools and community partners to comprehensively address youth violence and victimization.
Place Based Strategies for School Safety
Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) is an approach that focuses on improving the design of the built environment to help reduce opportunities for disputes and violence and promote positive behavior.
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The LISC Safety & Justice Resource Library is a destination for community practitioners, decision makers, and other stakeholders to learn about best practices for locally-driven safety and justice initiatives across the country, and how to implement them in their own communities. Browse below for resources on environmental approaches to making healthier, safer environments; trauma-informed community violence intervention and prevention (CVIP); alternatives to arrest, prosecution, and incarceration; and strategies to support people re-entering communities after incarceration.
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Reducing Violent Crime in Our Communities
The Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA)’s Reducing Violent Crime in Our Communities Webinar Series produced in partnership with LISC Safety & Justice.
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Comprehensive School-Based Violence and Victimization Prevention Program
Webinar series from LISC Safety & Justice and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
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Community Violence Intervention
Discover all of the resources from LISC Safety & Justice on the topic of Community Violence Intervention (CVI)
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