NACECC

2007 APHA

If you are attending the upcoming 2007 American Public Health Association Meeting in Washington DC, we would like to invite you to show your support by attending the following presentations and events by the Coordinating Center, ACEs (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Virginia Commonwealth University) and partners in youth violence prevention.

Sunday, November 4

4:30-5:30pm Poster: Increasing Family Violence Prevention Efforts through Targeted Strategies for Children and Families

Board 10: Communicating empirically-based information about risks and protection strategies to survivors of intimate partner violence (Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH, Patricia Mahoney, MA, Jacquelyn Campbell, PhD, RN, FAAN, Susan Ghanbarpour, MA)

Monday, November 5

8:30-10:00am Roundtable: Firearm Roundtable Session to Advance Research and Policy Agendas

Table 2: Firearm violence roundtable: Data collection, data quality, and data access (Daniel W. Webster, ScD, MPH)
Table 3: Firearm violence roundtable: Formative research, pilot studies, and research funding (David Hemenway, PhD)

12:30-1:30pm Poster: Injury Posters on Providers, Patients, and Communities

Board 2: Lessons learned from community participatory research with communities serving immigrant and ethnic minority population on youth violence prevention (Thao Le, PhD, Isami Arifuku, Gianna Tran, Hieu Ngo, MPH)

2:30-4:00pm Rema Lapouse Award for Lifetime Contributions: Bruce Link, PhD

Tuesday, November 6

8:30-10:00am Paper: Youth Violence Prevention and Interventions

National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (Gregory Mark, DCrim, Jane Onoye, PhD, Robert Cohen, PhD)
UNITY and the roadmap for urban youth violence prevention (Rachel Davis, MSW, Larry Cohen, MSW, Lissette M. Flores, MPH, Greta Tubbesing, BA)
Piloting a state-funded reporting and intervention system for youth firearm injury: Pennsylvania Injury Reporting and Intervention System (PIRIS)
(Carol Thornton, MPA, Rose Cheney, PhD, Jeanne Ciocca, Kate Fitzpatrick, RN, MSN, CRNP-BC, Amy Goldberg, MD, FACS, John Kelly, MD, Robert Ketterlinus, PhD)
Piloting Voices Against Violence, a middle-school violence prevention program to promote positive bystander action (Ann Stueve, PhD, Alexi San Doval, MPH, Richard Duran, MPH, Carrie Golden, BS)

12:30-2:00pm Roundtable: Innovative Strategies for School Health

Table 2: Using Voices Against Violence vignettes to clarify students' attitudes about bystander behaviors in a violence prevention program (Ann Stueve, PhD, Alexi San Doval, MPH, Richard Duran, MPH, Lydia O'Donnell, EdD)

12:30-2:00pm Paper: Injury Epidemiology

Examining trends in and characteristics of youth violence at the neighborhood level (Krystal M. Perkins, Catherine Stayton, DrPH, MPH, Jeffrey A. Fagan, PhD, Bruce Link, PhD)

12:30-1:30pm Poster: Posters on Injury, Politics and Policies

Board 6: Identifying indicators of success for violence prevention programs to inform policy and decision-making(Alice Hausman, PhD, MPH, Julie Becker, PhD, MPH, Bernadette Callahan Hohl, Terry Guerra, Tara Hayden, MSHA, Nicole Thomas, Jacques B. Ferber, JD, CPA, MBA, Joel Fein, MD, MPH)
Board 7: UNITY: Results of an assessment of current practices in a selected sample of UNITY cities(Anne M. Duncan, MPH, Billie Weiss, MPH)

12:30-2:00pm Paper: Strategies to Prevent Risk Behaviors

UNITY Roadmap for urban youth violence prevention: Developing city methodology and policy to support effective violence prevention strategies (Rachel Davis, MSW, Larry Cohen, MSW, Lissette M. Flores, MPH, Greta Tubbesing, BA)

Wednesday, November 7

2:30-4:00pm Paper: Health Promotion for Pre-School and Elementary Students

Influence of parental involvement and reading skills on behavior in elementary school students (Samantha C. Woo, MPH, Deborah Gorman-Smith, PhD, Michael Schoeny, PhD)

2:30-4:00pm Paper: Domestic and Dating Violence

Determinants of physical dating violence victizmization among high school adolescents in the United States (Saba Masho, MD, MPH, DrPH, Candace M. Hamm, MPH)
Prevalence of Male Sexual Assault in Virginia: A Population-Based Study (Saba Masho, MD, MPH, DrPH, Lisa Anderson, MPH)

We would also like to encourage you to attend or participate in these other events if you are interested and available:

Informal brainstorming meeting with SAVIR on potential partnership for educating legislators on injury and violence (Saturday, November 3rd 5:30-6:30pm)
Informal networking "brunch" hour with your fellow ACE and partner colleagues (Monday, November 5th 10:30am - 11:30am at a local restaurant)
ICEHS Awards Dinner (Tuesday, November 6th 6:30pm; deadline for RSVP October 23rd)
Mini training workshop on educating legislators (Wednesday, November 7th 9am-12pm)

For more information on any of the above, please contact the Coordinating Center.

2007 National ACE Meeting

The 2007 National ACE Meeting took place February 5-7th 2007, at the Mission Inn (http://www.missioninn.com/) in Riverside, California.

The theme of the meeting was “Building the National ACE Program” and the agenda covered topics such as: surveillance, outreach & training, community mobilization, community-based participatory research, research design & methodological issues, responding to community events, and cross-site collaborations. Additionally, community partners of the host ACE, the Southern California Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (UC Riverside) were recognized and honored.

Overall evaluations and feedback from participants found the meeting’s presentations and discussions to be informative and useful. Responses by individuals from CDC and the ACEs indicated the meeting to be a positive outcome from which to further strengthen the ACE program. Evaluation feedback from the meeting is available by contacting the Coordinating Center at nacecc@dop.hawaii.edu or (808) 945-1517.

2007 Society for Prevention Research Meeting

The National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention participated in a poster symposium entitled " The Challenges and Successes of University-Community Collaboration and its Impact of Community Based Participatory Research to Reduce Youth Violence" on Thursday, May 31st at the 2007 Society for Prevention Research Meeting in Washington D.C. The forum attracted a large audience circulating among the presenters, and an interactive discussion of the ACEs and youth violence prevention efforts concluded the session.

Download links are available for the following posters featured at the symposium:

Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center (University of Hawaii ACE): Building University and Public School Partnerships to Prevent Youth Violence
CDC: CDC's National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention Program: Using a Community Based Participatory Research Model to Advance Youth Violence Prevention
CDC: Community Based Participatory Research to Reduce Youth Violence: Formative Research Results from the National Academic Centers of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention
Center on Culture, Immigration, and Violence Prevention (University of California at Berkeley ACE): Lessons Learned from Community Participatory Research with Communities Serving Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Population on Youth Violence Prevention
Center on Culture, Immigration, and Violence Prevention (University of California at Berkeley ACE): The Diffusion of Youth-Led Participatory Research in Urban Schools: the Role of the Prevention Support System in Implementation and Sustainability
Virginia Commonwealth University Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development: University-Community Collaboration to Address Youth Violence in Richmond, Virginia
Southern California Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (University of California at Riverside ACE): Community Participatory Research and Practice in Latino Communities

Thank you to those who supported the ACEs by attending this unique poster forum to learn about their work. Please feel free to submit any feedback, comments, etc. regarding this session to nacecc@dop.hawaii.edu or from our Contact Us page.

Law's Violence, Ruptured Community: Justice and Healing for Immigrant Youth

The Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention (UC Berkeley ACE), Institute for the Study of Social Change, the National Council on Crime & Delinquency, and the Center for Social Justice will sponsor a conference on Thursday and Friday, March 8th and 9th, at Boalt Law School.

The conference will focus on Latino and Asian/Pacific Islander immigrant communities and the violence that occurs among and towards youth in these communities by analyzing violence as an environmental and societal problem instead of as the actions of pathological individuals. It will also provide a forum in which to analyze the role of the law in doing violence in immigrant communities and the potential of the law and other social institutions to promote healing by building on the strengths of youth and others in their communities.

The Raven Lecture on Access to Justice Thursday, March 8 4:00-5:30pm (Booth Auditorium)

"Hearts & Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times"

Luis Rodriguez, Author of Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Life in L.A.

Response by: Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender

Other featured speakers:

Barry Krisberg, President, National Council on Crime and Delinquency; Marlene Sanchez, Executive Director, Center for Young Women’s Development; Ramiro Martinez, Jr., Professor of Criminal Justice and Public Health, Florida International University; Khatarya Um, Professor of Asian American Studies, UC Berkeley; Thao Le, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, Colorado State University; Nane Alejandrez, Executive Director, Barrios Unidos; Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law and Asian American Studies, UC Davis; Patricia Loya, Executive Director, Centro Legal de la Raza; Lori Dorfman, Director, Berkeley Media Studies Group; Penina Taesali, AYPAL/PIKA Project Director; Jeff Fagan, Professor of Law and Public Health, Columbia University; Gianna Tran, Deputy Executive Director, East Bay Asian Youth Center; Victor Rios, Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara; Howard Pinderhughes, Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UC San Francisco School of Nursing; James Bell, Executive Director, W. Haywood Burns Institute; Michele Hoover, Public Health Advisor, CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Isabelle Mussard, JD, Youth Law Program Coordinator, McCullum Youth Court; Cecilia Martinez, Youth Attorney, McCullum Youth Court; Malcolm Yeung, Staff Attorney, Asian Law Caucus; Emily Ozer, Professor of Public Health

The conference is free and open to the public. Pre-register on the website:

http://issc.berkeley.edu/yvp_march07.php

For more information visit the website above or contact: Dr. Deborah Lustig, 510-643-7238

Conference co-sponsors are the Center for Latino Policy Research and the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative. To obtain contact information for details, also link to www.yvpcenter.org/events.