Greater than the Sum of their Parts

The benefits of Youth Violence Prevention Centers

Bibliographic Data

ID11054554
AuthorsDeborah Azrael (0000-0001-7177-0553, Harvard School of Public Health Health Policy and Management 677 Huntington Avenue 02115 Boston MA USA, corresponding author), David Hemenway (0000-0002-8125-1690, Harvard School of Public Health Health Policy and Management 677 Huntington Avenue 02115 Boston MA USA)
Year2011
Volume48
Issue1-2
Pages21-30
Publication date2011-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Community Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-0562 • E-ISSN: 1573-2770
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1007/s10464-010-9408-8
PMID21222152
OpenAlexW2012266320
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

Academic Centers for Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (ACE), which support a broad range of activities over and above RO1‐type research projects, can add significantly to a community's capacity to respond to youth violence. We use the example of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center to describe the types of research‐practice collaborations these centers can promote, as well as the ways in which these collaborations can foster adoption of program planning, development, implementation and evaluation practices consistent with evidence‐based approaches to youth violence prevention. Throughout, we describe the ways in which the existence of a center led, under the ACE format, to research, policy and practice opportunities that would not have existed in the absence of a center

Center (category theory) · Center of excellence · Developmental psychology · Excellence · Health psychology · Political science · Positive Youth Development · Prevention science · Public health · Public relations · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Youth Development and Social Support