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  • Position Statement on the Connecticut Shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School

    Read the prevention recommendations of the Interdisciplinary Group on Preventing School and Community Violence

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  • YVP Team Awarded $500k VA School Safety Grant

    We have a new federal grant to study safety conditions, bullying, and school climate in Virginia secondary schools.

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  • The Connection between Bullying and Lower Test Scores

    Our research shows that higher rates of bullying and teasing are linked to lower test scores in Virginia high schools.

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  • Columbine, A Decade Later: The Prevention of Homicidal Violence in Schools

    School shootings have become a global concern. Our work on student threat assessment is being used internationally, as described here.

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  • Safe Schools/Healthy Students Project

    We have partnered with Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville to study bullying and school climate.

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Our team of faculty and graduate students conducts research on effective methods and policies for youth violence prevention and school safety.

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Students on Staff:

  • Michael Baly, M.Ed.
  • Anna Heilbrun, M.A.
  • Anna Lacey, M.Ed.
  • Erin Nekavasil, M.Ed.

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Virginia Youth Violence Project
Curry School of Education
P.O. Box 400270, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4270
One Morton Drive, Room 107TL1, Charlottesville, VA 22903
P: 434-924-8929
F: 434-924-1433
youthvio@virginia.edu

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