REPORT
Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.
RESEARCH BRIEF
RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.
REPORT
An initiative that successfully reduced gun violence in Boston was adapted for a section of East Los Angeles with prevalent gang activity. Though not implemented as planned, the intervention helped reduce violent and gang crime in the targeted districts, both during and immediately after implementation.
REPORT
In 2006, more than 6 million individuals were victimized by violent crimes. The extent of violence and its impact highlight a critical need to develop and implement effective programs to reduce violence and victimization, and to conduct critical evaluations to inform other violence-reduction programs.
REPORT
This exploratory research examines the types of data and information Local Authorities draw upon to make commissioning decisions.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The presence of street gangs has been hypothesized as influencing overall levels of violence in urban communities through a process of gun-drug diffusion and crosstype homicide.
REPORT
In response to rising crime and violence, Oakland, California, voters passed the Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act of 2004 (Measure Y), a 10-year, nearly $20 million annual investment to reduce violence through community-policing, violence-prevention, and other programs. Building on the first-year implementation assessment, this report examines the progress and effectiveness of the Measure Y–funded problem-solving officer…
REPORT
A previous RAND Europe report on Interventions to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime highlighted the effectiveness and cost-benefit of early interventions for preventing crime and offending. These findings hold true for violent crime as well. This report focuses on the potential for interventions at three main stages in the offending process: risk assessment, rehabilitation and management of violent offenders.
REPORT
An assessment of the first-year progress of community-policing and violence-prevention programs in Oakland funded by Measure Y found that implementation of community policing has been delayed, but violence-prevention programs have been implemented as planned.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Cross-lagged relationships between posttraumatic distress symptoms and physical functioning are reciprocally related following traumatic injury. Interventions targeting physical recovery may influence subsequent mental health, and vice versa.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
As part of an ongoing effort in a large urban school district to meet the mental health needs of students traumatized by violence exposure, this paper examines the impact of alternative approaches on parental response and consent rates for an initial screening to participate in a school mental health program.
RESEARCH BRIEF
This fact sheet summarizes a program guide, or tool kit, that describes a variety of school-based mental health programs for students exposed to trauma, such as Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, and community or personal violence.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Both past and present trauma complicates the adaptation of people with SMI.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Psychoeducation about postinjury reactions and attention to structural barriers to services may help increase rates of care in this population.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This study developed and assessed a measurement model to examine the implementation of community policing (COP).
PERIODICAL
Shows how coordinated efforts among community groups and public agencies can reduce gun violence among inner-city youth; also covers expanding health insurance, defense personnel policies, the nuclear threat, domestic violence, and nanotechnology.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Acute reactions to trauma are examined in 267 individuals severely injured via community violence.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
To pilot-test a school mental health program for Latino immigrant students who have been exposed to community violence.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding prevalence of youth exposure to community violence, and identifies those areas where further research is warranted.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Examines the relationship between acculturation and peritraumatic dissociation in a sample of 304 physically injured Latino survivors of community violence and finds that retaining cultural traditions does not necessarily promote mental health.
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