Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Content Topic Results

It brings together 10 public and private sector organizations focused on one common goal: halting sexual violence against girls. Current actions under the Together for Girls initiative include surveys, programs, and partnership activities.

This report presents data on TBI-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations, and deaths for the years 2002 through 2006 and can be used to determine the number of TBIs occurring each year, groups most affected, and the leading causes of TBI. This important information can be used to document the need for TBI prevention, to identify research and education priorities, and to support the need for services among individuals living with a TBI.

This Guide describes how to develop, implement, and evaluate a training process, taking into account your available level of resources - by turning awareness and knowledge into mastered skills and practices to prevent sexual or intimate partner violence. It is intended for use by state-level entities providing training to community based organizations (CBOs) or to other state- level entities as well as for CBOs providing training within their own organizations or to other professionals in their communities.

This resource provides a quick overview of different types of child abuse, including sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse and neglect. It also includes a brief overview of the CDCÍs approach to prevention.

This free, online VetoViolence course provides educators with a basic knowledge of teen dating violence prevention.

This manual is designed to help violence prevention organizations hire an empowerment evaluator who will assist them in building their evaluation capacity through a learn-by-doing process of evaluating their own strategies.

This fact sheet includes the following categories: adults, health disparities, college age, children and youth (17 years or younger), non-fatal injuries and medical treatment and perpetrators.

In this 8 minute podcast, Dr. Michele Black discusses a link between intimate partner violence and illnesses, including asthma, arthritis, stroke, increased heavy or binge drinking, smoking, and risk factors such as HIV or sexually transmitted diseases.

The brief summarizes what is known about young people and electronic aggression, provides strategies for addressing the issue with young people, and discusses the implications for school staff, education policy makers, and parents and caregivers.

This document summarizes the available research on childhood stress and its implications for adult health and well-being. Of particular interest is the stress caused by child abuse, neglect, and repeated exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). This publication provides violence prevention practitioners with ideas about how to incorporate information on childhood stress into their work.

This&issue&of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (Vol. 56, No. RR-7)&provides a summary of findings from a review of evidence concerning the effectiveness of universal school-based violence prevention programs.

This compilation provides practitioners and clinicians with an inventory of existing assessment tools for determining intimate partner violence and/or sexual violence victimization in clinical/healthcare settings.