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Violence
Violence is a serious public health problem that affects people in all stages of life. Many who survive violence suffer physical, mental, and or emotional health problems throughout the rest of their lives. The CPSTF recommends intervention approaches to prevent violence and reduce harms associated with violence.
Task Force Findings
Summary Table
This summary of CPSTF findings to reduce violence can be used as a reference, included in presentations, or shared with colleagues.
Implementation Resources
Implementation Products
Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships
CDC developed this comprehensive teen dating violence prevention model to stop teen dating violence before it starts. Dating Matters is an evidence-based teen dating violence prevention model that includes prevention strategies for individuals, peers, families, schools, and neighborhoods. It focuses on teaching 11-14 year olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating and reducing behaviors that increase the risk for dating violence, like substance abuse and sexual risk-taking.
CDC’s Health Impact in 5 Years (HI-5) Initiative
HI-5 highlights non-clinical, community-wide approaches that have evidence reporting 1) positive health impacts, 2) results within five years, and 3) cost effectiveness and/or cost savings over the lifetime of the population or earlier. The website features links to implementation resources and success stories that can help communities get started.
School-Based Violence Prevention
Webinars
Interventions That Work: Preventing Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Among Youth (October 24, 2018)
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health with support from The Community Guide and CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention
Presentations and Promotional Materials
Community Guide In Action: Stories from the Field
YouthAlert! Uses Teamwork and Education to Prevent Youth Violence
What Works – Fact Sheets
One Pagers
Community Guide News
Developed by The Community Guide
Primary Prevention Reduces Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Among Youth
Slides and Presentations
Using Evidence for Public Health Decision Making: Violence Prevention Focused on Children and Youth 
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Developed by The Community Guide
For More on this Topic
CDC, Division of Violence Prevention 
CDC, Division of Adolescent and School Health
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Administration for Children and Families
Child Welfare Information Gateway