Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence

The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) was founded in 1992 and is now housed within the Program on Problem Behavior and Positive Youth Development within the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.[1]

Among the programs and projects of the CSPV is the Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development initiative which provides a registry of experimentally proven programs that are demonstrated to be "effective in preventing or reducing the likelihood of antisocial behavior and promoting a healthy course of youth development and adult maturity".[2] The Blueprints initiative evaluates the programs through a systematic review process and classifies accepted ones into three classes: "Promising" for interventions that have met the minimum standards of effectiveness; "Model" interventions that have met a higher standard and thus provide a "greater confidence in the program’s capacity to change behavior and targeted outcomes", and "Model-Plus" interventions that have not only met the highest Blueprints standards but have been externally evaluated through published peer-reviewed journal articles. More than 150 programs and projects have been submitted for review and 94 have achieved one of the three labeled classes (as of July 2020).[3] An early program of the Center was the VioLit database—the first international literature database of scholarly literature on violence prevention. During the early to mid-2000s violence research (especially related to firearms) in the United States became controversial and many funding sources ended their support for these projects. In 2013 as funding within the CSPV ended for this project the leaders collaborated with SafetyLit to continue and expand the VioLit database.

History

Until the early to mid-1980s in the United States and much of the world, injuries were thought to be caused by carelessness or bad luck. In 1983, the U.S. Congress enacted legislation authorized funding the U.S. Department of Transportation in partnership with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a formal study to 1) determine what was then known about injury causes and consequences; 2) areas to prioritize for injury prevention research; and 3) the role of the US federal government agencies in improving knowledge about the causes of serious injuries and their prevention.[4] At the same time that Congress recognized that the injury problem was not insoluble researchers at universities began to publish books on the public health approach to preventing injuries.[5][6] With this new recognition that injuries were not only the result of unavoidable accidents, U.S. agencies began funding research and prevention programs within universities and state governments.[7] The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado at Boulder was one of the early university-based centers. It was founded in 1992 by Dr. Delbert S. Elliott and was among the first injury research centers to focus primarily on interpersonal violence research and prevention. Since that founding through June 2020, the Center has led over 75 comprehensive school and community initiatives in Colorado and across the nation, totaling over $80 million dollars.[1] It currently supports more than 35 full-time faculty and staff.[1]

The CSPV works closely with other national institutes and centers to further the building of bridges between the research community and practitioners and policy makers to help make communities and schools safe for children, parents, and teachers.[8][9]

References
  1. "CSPV-Who". CSPV Who We Are. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  2. "Blueprints4Youth". Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  3. "Blueprints-Cert". Blueprints Certification. Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  4. Foege, William H. (1985). "Preface". Injury in America. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. p. v. ISBN 0-309-03545-7.
  5. Robertson, Leon S. (1983). Injuries: Causes, Control Strategies, and Public Policy. Lexington, MA, USA: D.C. Heath. ISBN 0-669-04664-7.
  6. Waller, Julian A. (1985). Injury Control: A Guide to Causes and Prevention of Tauma. Lexington, MA, USA: D.C. Heath. ISBN 0-669-08232-5.
  7. Bonnie, Richard J.; Fulco, Carolyn E.; Liverman, Catharyn T., eds. (1999). "Executive Summary". Reducing the Burden of Injury. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. pp. 1–17. ISBN 0-309-06566-6.
  8. "Collaborators to prevent school violence". National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments. American Institutes for Research. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  9. "Collaborators to in Crisis Response". Crisis Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Resource Center. Education Development Center. Retrieved 26 July 2020.

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