Carnegie Launches Effort To Target Youth Violence

By Millicent Lawton

In an effort to strengthen the field of violence prevention for adolescents, three nonprofit groups are collaborating on a national project to link practitioners, encourage research and evaluation, and change the way movies and television shows portray violence.

The project, initiated and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will create a network of practitioners and evaluators of violence-prevention programs, a new university-based center for research on the topic, and a group that will work with the entertainment industry to ensure that one of the most pervasive influences on adolescents...