If your clinic is interested in violence prevention, the following links provide additional tools, research, and resources for practitioners and researchers:
Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention | University of Michigan
The Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention collaborates with communities and harnesses the research might of the University of Michigan, the nation’s largest public research university, to address the root causes of, and potential solutions for, the most important issues surrounding firearm violence.
University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center
The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center (formerly the University of Michigan Injury Center) is a comprehensive CDC-funded Injury Control Research Center that addresses urgent injury issues with research, education, and outreach. The website includes an interactive database to provide public health professionals and researchers with convenient access to evidence-based injury prevention programs, databases of evaluated prevention programs, and best-practice educational materials.
MI-YVPC - Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center
The Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center (MI-YVPC), based at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, is one of six National Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Centers are funded to research youth violence prevention approaches, collect and analyze surveillance data, and foster relationships with local community partners to help develop, implement, and evaluate promising prevention efforts.
CDC’s Injury Center provides facts and statistics about violence and injury prevention, including global violence, elder abuse, suicide, and sexual violence.