Teen Violence Prevention

Family Resource Brief

Here you will find links to care, services, and support and websites about teen violence prevention.

Care, Services, and Support

• Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV): SPEAK UP. Hotline to anonymously report a weapon threat at school. Telephone: (866) 773-2587 (SPEAK UP).
  
  
• Childhelp®: National Child Abuse Hotline. Crisis intervention, information, literature, and referrals to thousands of emergency, social service, and support resources. The hotline is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with professional crisis counselors who, through interpreters, can provide assistance in 140 languages. All calls are anonymous and confidential. Telephone: (800) 422-4453.
  
  
• Mental Health America: Get Help. Hotline for individuals in crisis. Telephone: (800) 273-8255.
  
  
• National Center for Victims of Crime (NCVC): Help for Crime Victims. Contact information for local services for victims of all types of crime.
  
  
• National Domestic Violence Hotline. Crisis intervention, safety planning, information about domestic violence, and referrals to local services to victims of domestic violence and those calling on their behalf. Assistance is available in English and Spanish with access to more than 170 languages through interpreter services. Telephone: (800) 799-7233; (800) 787-3224 (TDD).
  
  
• National Teen Dating Abuse Helpline. Support and resource referrals by trained peer advocates 24 hours a day for teens experiencing dating abuse. Telephone: (866) 331-9474; (866) 331-8453 (TDD); or chat online.
  
  
• Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): National Sexual Assault Hotline. Confidential crisis intervention, support, and information 24 hours a day in partnership with rape crisis centers across the country. Telephone: (800) 656-4673 or online interface.
  
  
• Also see Community Services Locator: An Online Directory for Finding Community Services for Children and Families.
  

Websites

• Adults and Children Together Against Violence (ACT). Brochures and handouts for parents, caregivers, and kids about anger management, conflict resolution, and media violence. Some materials are available in Spanish.
  
  
• American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP): Facts for Families. Information for families in English and Spanish on topics like bullying, fighting and biting, firearms, media violence, suicide, threats, and violent behavior.
  
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Connected Kids: Safe, Strong, Secure. Brochures for parents, kids, and teens on topics like bullying, discipline, interpersonal skills, parenting, suicide, and television violence.
  
  
• American Psychological Association (APA): Violence. Articles about the warning signs of teen violence, raising kids to resist violence, bullying, and media violence.
  
  
• BAM! Body and Mind: Guide to Getting Along. Tips for kids about how to resolve a conflict.
  
  
• Center to Prevent Youth Violence (CPYV): Parents. Steps to prevent kids from having access to guns.
  
  
• Talking with Kids About Tough Issues: Violence. Tips for parents about how to communicate better with your kids about violence, including conflict resolution, bullying, media violence, gangs, and firearms.
  

Learn more about teen violence prevention, bullying, dating violence, exposure to violence, firearms, gangs, media violence, school violence, and suicide prevention.

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