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Drug Abuse and Crime Top Public Opinion About Children's Health Care Concerns

February 28, 2000 | Program Result

Harvard University School of Public Health designed and fielded original public opinion surveys on health issues and reviewed and synthesized existing surveys conducted by other organizations.

Fighting Back: Community Initiatives to Reduce Demand for Illegal Drugs and Alcohol

May 1, 2007 | Program Result

The Fighting Back program was a $87.9 million national program to assist communities of 100,000 to 250,000 people to implement a variety of anti-drug strategies. It ran until the fall of 2003.

Community Programs Help Prevent Youth Violence

January 1, 2003 | Program Result

The Community Violence Prevention Project at the Harvard School of Public Health assists local leaders in planning, implementing and evaluating violence prevention projects in their communities.

How to Give Peace a Chance?

November 1, 1996 | Program Result

The Community Violence Prevention Program, at the Harvard School of Public Health, implemented a resource center that provided technical assistance and informational support to program operators of community-based violence prevention programs.

Use of a Microecological Technique to Study Crime Incidents Around Methadone Maintenance Treatment Centers

September 1, 2012 | Journal Article

cq5dam.thumbnail.319.319 Read article There is no significant increase in serious crime around methadone treatment centers, according to this fine-grained geographic analysis in one city.

Urban Health Initiative: Working to Ensure the Health and Safety of Children

National Program

Program to improve the health and safety of young people in urban areas by improving collaboration among youth-serving agencies and organizations.

A Million Youth in a Thousand Cities Celebrate the First "Safe Night USA"

July 1, 2001 | Program Result

Wisconsin Public Television hosted Safe Night USA, a one-night national youth substance abuse and violence prevention program held simultaneously in over 1,100 cities in all 50 states on June 5, 1999.

How Residential Mobility and School Choice Challenge Assumptions of Neighborhood Place-Based Interventions

January 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Health interventions that are long-term and place-based are embraced as providing low-income families with comprehensive services. To better understand the benefits from these services, this study assesses the role of residential mobility and the us ...

Lifting Boats Without Closing Gaps

February 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Despite national prosperity which improved health outcomes for urban children from 1992-2002, disparities between children in distressed versus non-distressed cities, and between Black versus White urban children, did not improve.

Finding the Impact in a Messy Intervention

December 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article looks specifically at the design of the Urban Health Initiative evaluation. It highlights the program's integrated evaluation design, bringing together a theory of change and a quasi-experimental approach, including comparison city usage.

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