Risk Factors
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- Assessing Youth Health Risk Behaviors Among Young People: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System 2004
This report details the purposes the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, lists risk behaviors linked to the leading causes of death, and describes the CDC's role in ensuring the availability of information on youth health risk behaviors. - United States Department of Health and Human Services
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) was established by Congress under Public Law 102-321 on October 1, 1992, to strengthen the nation's health care capacity to provide prevention, diagnosis, and treatment services for substance abuse and mental illnesses. SAMHSA wo ... - US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Pediatric Translational Research and Treatment Development, Child Abuse and Neglect Program
The Child Abuse and Neglect Program is part of the Division of Pediatric Translational Research and Treatment Development at the National Institute of Mental Health. This program supports research that addresses child abuse and neglect, and familial aspects of traumatic stress as risk factors for ps ...
External Resources
- Predictors of Youth Violence (Juvenile Justice Bulletin, April, 2000)
The "Results" section of this publication provides information about the predictors of youth violence that are arranged in five domains: individual, family, school, peer-related, and community and neighborhood factors.
Federal Partner: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice - Prevention of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending (PDF 356 KB)
This publication is a bulletin that describes some developmental precursors to serious and violent juvenile offending and outlines effective approaches to prevention of such offending. It describes family-, parent-, and child-focused prevention programs, and offers examples of well-designed intervention programs.
Federal Partner: U.S. Department of Justice
see also Protective Factors