Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence
The Center was created with a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Provention (CDC) in 2000 as an Academic Research Center of Excellence (ACE). the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence is one of 10 Academic Centers of Excellence. The Center was refunded in 2011 as well as six other centers of ACE. The mission of the Center is to prevent youth violence and to promote positive youth development in Baltimore City by creating academic-community collaborations that extend, evaluate and improve efforts to: 1) monitor and detect fatal and non-fatal youth violence; 2) conduct research aimed at identifying malleable factors related to youth violence and research and research on interventions that reduce youth violence and associated morbidity and mortality; and 3) create policies and practices that prevent youth violence.
