FORT LEE, Va. (Sept. 3, 2015) -- The International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organization will observe World Suicide Prevention Day, Sept. 10, with the theme "Preventing ...

Violence prevention and intervention programs have expanded rapidly across the country thanks to support from the Biden-Harris administration. This past June, the U.S. Surgeon General issued its first ...

Gaffney Mayor Lyman Dawkins III announced the creation of a new Youth Violence Prevention and Intervention task force (YVPI) to address recent violence involving young people in the city.

Targeted Outreach: Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s Approach to Gang Prevention and Intervention, by Amy J.A. Arbreton and Wendy S. McClanahan, evaluates two programs developed in response to the rise ...

Bystander intervention is one of the forms of violence prevention with empirical backing to support its use. Violence typically occurs within a spectrum; along the way, there are numerous people who ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

To understand the current state of prediabetes burden and treatment in the US, we examined recent trends in prediabetes prevalence, testing, and access to preventive resources. We estimated 13.5 ...

More than 1,200 fifth and sixth graders from Orangeburg Consolidated School Districts 3, 4 and 5 attended the 2018 Gang Prevention & Intervention Summit on the Claflin campus on Sept. 27. The annual ...

I would be remiss if I didn’t say that our entire county is ill-prepared for folks coming home from prison. I have been educating, informing and advocating about the issues related to incarceration ...