OVERVIEW

Preventing Youth Violence: Opportunities for Action is organized by CEmobile, LLC.

This course does not expire. However, courses may be updated in the future. If the course is no longer available, you will be allowed to exchange a course or request a refund.

Course Credit(s): 3 CE Credit or Hour

Course Description:
This course presents a select group of strategies based on the best available evidence to help communities and states sharpen their focus on prevention activities with the greatest potential to prevent youth violence and its consequences. These strategies include promoting family environments that support healthy development; providing quality education early in life; strengthening youth’s skills; connecting youth to caring adults and activities; creating protective community environments; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk.

Learning Objectives:
• Analyze strategies to prevent youth violence: promoting family environments that support healthy development; providing quality education early in life; strengthening youth’s • skills; connecting youth to caring adults and activities; creating protective community environments; and intervening to lessen harms and prevent future risk
• Describe approaches for advancing each strategy and the evidence to support them
• List the estimated benefits of evidence-based approaches/programs relative to costs
• Describe the role that public health can play in preventing youth violence

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.