December 1, 2007
Nov 20-Dec 20 is Survivors of Homicide
Victims Awareness Month. Click here for a list of
activities scheduled throughout the month.
November 30, 2007
Please attend the opening reception of
"Guns, Youth, and Architecture" at 6:30 on December 20th at YouthBuild Boston's
Designery. Click on flyer for more
information.
The Boston Globe featured an article citing BYS data on its front page. Click here to read.
October 25, 2007
In preparation for a Boston City Council hearing this afternoon, HYVPC has a new fact sheet on school violence and safety from the 2006 BYS data. Download the fact sheet here.
October 22, 2007
2006 Boston Youth Survey Data
Release
HYVPC is pleased to announce data from the 2006 Boston
Youth Survey will be released by Mayor Menino this afternoon at the first of
seven community meetings hosted by the Boston Public Health Commission. For more
information on the community meetings, visit the BPHC website. For more information on the Boston Youth Survey,
please contact Mary
Vriniotis at 617-432-0085.
Download the summary of key findings here.
Please click on the following links for media coverage:
April 30, 2007
"Dueling and youth violence" an article
featured in the Boston Globe by Deborah
Prothrow-Stith. To read the the entire artcile, click here.
April 23, 2007
Clementina Chéry, co-founder of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute is featured in an April 2007 edition of People Magazine. Click here to read more.
January 2007
Private Guns, Public Health
A
paperback edition of HICRC Director Dr. David Hemenway's book "Private Guns,
Public Health" will be issued in January 2007 containing a forward summary of
literature of the past two years. This book was published by the University of
Michigan Press in April 2004. Described as "the first complete picture of the
public-health approach to gun violence, and a commonsense plan for ending this
American epidemic," the book tackles the issue of firearm injury and suggests
public policies that can work toward prevention.