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Don't Lie for the Other Guy
The Don’t Lie for the Other Guy program, a joint effort between the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, educates federally licensed retailers on how to detect and deter potential criminal purchases. The program, part of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Project Safe Neighborhoods, presents regional seminars, gives out Don’t Lie point-of-sale kits, and has developed a public awareness component.
Project ChildSafe
Project ChildSafe is a nationwide program whose purpose is to promote safe firearms handling and storage practices among firearms owners through the distribution of key safety education messages and free gun locking devices. It is supported by a U.S. Department of Justice grant and is a component of Project Safe Neighborhoods. Project ChildSafe partners with governors, lieutenant governors, U.S. Attorneys, mayors, and local law enforcement agencies across the country to distribute safety kits.
Weed and Seed
Weed and Seed, a part of the Community Capacity Development Office in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, is a two-pronged strategy to “weed out” violent crime, drug abuse, and gang activity in targeted high-crime neighborhoods and to “seed” communities with social services and resources. Weed and Seed often partners with Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) because the two programs share complementary objectives. The prosecutorial focus of PSN supports Weed and Seed’s goal of removing violent criminals from the streets, and the community contacts fostered by Weed and Seed help PSN communicate the consequences of illegal gun use to targeted communities.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Promising strategies to reduce gun violence
Project Safe Neighborhoods
Project Safe Neighborhoods is a nationwide commitment to reduce gun crime in America by networking existing local programs that target gun crime and providing these programs with additional tools necessary to be successful.
The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence
Information on State and Local Gun Violence Prevention Groups
The HELP Network
The HELP Network is dedicated to reducing firearm injuries and deaths, promoting strategies that are based on public health research. Since 1993, HELP served as a clearinghouse for information on the modern epidemic caused by firearms — especially handguns. This website includes news/press releases, publications, fact sheets and resources, and information on conferences.
United States Department of Justice: Safe Communities-Preventing Gun Violence
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is a principal law enforcement agency within the United States Department of Justice dedicated to preventing terrorism, reducing violent crime, and protecting our Nation. The men and women of ATF perform the dual responsibilities of enforcing Federal criminal laws and regulating the firearms and explosives industries.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
The Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research is dedicated to reducing gun-related injuries and deaths through the application of a public health perspective and sound research to the issue of gun violence prevention.
Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence
This website provides articles and papers on gun violence, statistics, facts, and quotes, and information on public policy.
Medical College of Wisconsin Firearm Injury Center
The mission of the Firearm Injury Center is to reduce firearm and violence-related injuries and deaths.This website includes publications, news and reports on gun violence
Virginia Exile
Virginia Exile is designed to build upon the success of Project Exile, a federal program started in Richmond in 1997. By prosecuting illegal gun offenses in federal court, Project Exile has helped to reduce gun violence in Richmond, Virginia by 40 percent, according to federal and city officials.
American Bar Association Special Committee on Gun Violence
Includes public policy issues, second amendment issues, the ABA policy on gun violence, bar association and lawyer activities, and legislation
National Center for Victims of Crime
The National Center for Victims of Crime is the nation's leading resource and advocacy for crime victims
National Institute of Justice
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and is dedicated to researching crime control and justice issues. NIJ provides objective, independent, evidence-based knowledge and tools to meet the challenges of crime and justice.
National Crime Prevention Council
The National Crime Prevention Council's mission is to enable people to create safer and more caring communities by addressing the causes of crime and violence and reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.
Wisconsin Council on Children and Families
Public survey on gun safety
Wisconsin State Law Library
Provides information on Wisconsin laws as it pertains to firearms and many other topics.
U.S. Department of Justice-Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics
This site summarizes Bureau of Justice Statistics findings about firearms and crime and provides access to numerous statistical publications.
The Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
This site provides facts on youth violence.
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
A federal resource for professionals, parents and youth working to prevent violence committed by and against young people
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research
The Center's vision for this applied research program is to explore and advance effective strategies for separating the 70 million U.S. kids from the 200 million privately-owned guns in the United States.
The Future of Children Princeton-Brookings
Article on "Behavior-Oriented Approaches to Reducing Youth Gun Violence"
Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Violence Reduction Initiative
In May 2005, the South Bend Police Department was awarded a federal grant under Project Safe Neighborhoods to initiate a youth violence reduction program in the Northern District of Indiana. The grant will be used to create and maintain youth programs that will serve not only South Bend, but all areas that lie within the Northern District. The initiative will focus specifically on youth violent crime and rehabilitation programs.
Common Sense about Kids and Guns
Common Sense about Kids and Guns is a public education organization dedicated to providing all adults with the necessary information to empower them to protect their children.
ASK (Asking Saves Kids) Campaign
The ASK Campaign encourages parents to ask their neighbors if they have a gun in the home before sending their children over to play. The power of this campaign is that it enrolls all Americans concerned with the welfare of children, including gun owners, and makes a discussion about public safety and good parenting part of the solution to gun violence.
Youth Crime Watch of America
With programs across the United States and in countries around the world, Youth Crime Watch demonstrates that young people can make a difference in keeping their schools and communities safe from drugs, crime, and violence
Youth Crime Watch assists students in developing youth-led programs which can encompass up to nine key components that encourage “watch out” activities such as crime reporting and “help out” activities such as mentoring or mediation. Youth take ownership of their own YCW program for their school, neighborhood, public housing site, recreational center or park.
Students Against Violence Everywhere (S.A.V.E.)
S.A.V.E. is a student driven organization. Students learn about alternatives to violence and practice what they learn through school and community service projects. As they participate in S.A.V.E. activities, students learn conflict management and mediation skills and the virtues of good citizenship, civility, and nonviolence.
The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence
The Student Pledge Against Gun Violence is a national program that honors the role that young people, through their own decisions, can play in reducing gun violence.
National Institute on Out of School Time
The National Institute on Out of School Time's mission is to ensure that all children, youth, and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during nonschool hours.
National School Safety Center
The National School Safety Center (NSSC) serves as an advocate for safe, secure, and peaceful schools worldwide and as a catalyst for the prevention of school crime and violence. NSSC provides school communities and their school safety partners with quality information, resources, consultation, and training services. The Center identifies and promotes strategies, promising practices, and programs that support safe schools for all students as part of the total academic mission.
Reducing Gun Violence in Schools: Recommendations for Prevention
University of Minnesota Extension Services
A guide for parents and teachers to help young people cope with school shootings
KidsPeace, The National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis
this website provides tips for schools, parents and kids to prevent school shootings
The International Association of Chiefs of Police
Prevention and Response to School Violence; this website provides resources and tips related to the prevention of school violence/school shootings.