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The
systematic reviews focus on the prevention of
violence by and against juveniles, assuming that
juvenile violence is both a reflection and a source
of violence throughout the life cycle.
Recommendations
The Task Force on Community Preventive Services will
provide recommendations for interventions to prevent
violent and abusive behavior.
Each recommendation will be based on the
strength of the evidence of effectiveness found
during the systematic reviews.
Decision makers should consider these
evidence-based recommendations and local needs,
goals, and constraints when choosing appropriate
interventions.
The recommendation of insufficient evidence
may reveal gaps in the findings where future
prevention research is needed.
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Intervention
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Status
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Behavioral
Change Interventions
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Intensive,
multi-component, standardized
interventions for high risk children,
families and schools
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Pending
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Post-vention
counseling after traumatic events
|
Pending
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Health
and Education Systems Interventions
|
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Home
visitation programs
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Strongly
Recommended
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Development
of pro-social skills
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Pending
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Educational
incentives, job training and employment
for adolescents
|
Pending
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Intensive,
multi-component support services
|
Pending
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Legislation/Public
Policy Interventions
|
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Prosecuting
juveniles as adults
|
Pending
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Firearms
legislation
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In
Progress
|
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Environmental
Interventions
|
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Strategies
to promote anti-hate and anti-discrimination
crime
|
Pending
|
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Community
organizing projects
|
Pending
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Community
policing
|
Pending
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Therapeutic
foster care
|
Pending
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Anticipated
Date of Publication: December
2003
The Guide to
Community Preventive Services (Community
Guide) provides public health decision makers
with recommendations regarding population-based
interventions to promote health and to prevent
disease, injury, disability, and premature death,
appropriate for use by communities and health care
systems. The 15-member independent Task Force on
Community Preventive Services, makes its
recommendations based on systematic reviews of
topics in three general areas: changing risk
behaviors; reducing diseases, injuries and
impairments; and addressing environmental and
ecosystem challenges (see Am J Prev Med 2000;18
(1S):18-26). The Community Guide is a
federally sponsored initiative and is part of a
family of federal initiatives including Healthy
People 2010 and the Guide to Clinical
Preventive Services.
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