National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center

Protective Factors

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Fact Sheets

• Risk and Protective Factors for Youth Violence

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• Measuring Violence Related Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviors Among Youths: A Compendium of Assessment Tools
  This compendium provides researchers and prevention specialists with a set of tools to evaluate programs to prevent youth violence.
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External Resources

• Proposed Protective Factors in Childhood and Adolescence (from Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General)
  Protective factors are those aspects of the individual and his or her environment that buffer or moderate the effect of risk. Identifying and understanding how protective factors operate is potentially as important to violence prevention and intervention efforts as research on risk factors.
  Federal Partner: Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

see also Resilience, Risk Factors

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The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last Updated: 3/27/2008