The California Wellness Foundation’s Violence Prevention Initiative Findings from an Evaluation of the First Five Years

Peter W. Greenwood, Jeffrey Wasserman, Lois M. Davis, June Flora, Kim Ammann Howard, Nina Schleicher, Allan Abrahamse, Peter Jacobson, Grant N. Marshall, Carole Oken, et al.

ResearchPublished 2001

The Violence Prevention Initiative (or VPI) was the first major grantmaking program developed by the California Wellness Foundation. At the time it was launched in late 1992, rates of youth violence were rising and sensationalistic press coverage contributed to a public sense that “get tough” measures were the solution. Our state was in the midst of an unprecedented prisonbuilding boom, with a growing share of public funds being dedicated to incarceration, at the expense of traditional probation/early intervention programs for young offenders. Few in the policy world identified youth violence as a public health issue, let alone saw it as something that might be preventable.

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Greenwood, Peter W., Jeffrey Wasserman, Lois M. Davis, June Flora, Kim Ammann Howard, Nina Schleicher, Allan Abrahamse, Peter Jacobson, Grant N. Marshall, Carole Oken, Eric V. Larson, and James Chiesa, The California Wellness Foundation’s Violence Prevention Initiative Findings from an Evaluation of the First Five Years, RAND Corporation, MR-1342.0-TCWF, 2001. As of September 24, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1342z0.html
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Greenwood, Peter W., Jeffrey Wasserman, Lois M. Davis, June Flora, Kim Ammann Howard, Nina Schleicher, Allan Abrahamse, Peter Jacobson, Grant N. Marshall, Carole Oken, Eric V. Larson, and James Chiesa, The California Wellness Foundation’s Violence Prevention Initiative Findings from an Evaluation of the First Five Years. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2001. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1342z0.html. Also available in print form.
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