Citation

Azrael DR, Hemenway DA. Am. J. Community Psychol. 2011; 48(1-2): 21-30.

Affiliation

Harvard School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA, 02115, USA, azrael@hsph.harvard.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1007/s10464-010-9408-8

PMID

21222152

Abstract

Academic Centers for Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (ACE), which support a broad range of activities over and above RO1-type research projects, can add significantly to a community's capacity to respond to youth violence. We use the example of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center to describe the types of research-practice collaborations these centers can promote, as well as the ways in which these collaborations can foster adoption of program planning, development, implementation and evaluation practices consistent with evidence-based approaches to youth violence prevention. Throughout, we describe the ways in which the existence of a center led, under the ACE format, to research, policy and practice opportunities that would not have existed in the absence of a center.

Language: en