By: Briana Jefferson, MI-YVPC Intern Adults may not always realize how much impact they can have on the lives and futures of children. The “My Safe and Healthy Future” contest asked students to answer four questions and submit an original drawing, poem, song or story about their future. The questions included were as follows: What does my safe and healthy future …
The winners of the Safe and Healthy Futures Contest have been chosen! We had 35 entries from the fifth and sixth grades at Doyle Ryder and Durant Tuuri Mott Schools and three winners and three runner-ups were chosen. You can read the winners’ essays and see (and hear) their artwork on our Safe and Healthy Futures Contest page. Many thanks to …
We are pleased report on another successful semester of HBHE 680. This course, which provides students with an introduction to youth violence prevention in the context of public health, is a key component of the training core of the Michigan YVPC. It is offered every winter term to students in the University of Michigan School of Public Health, and is …
The Child Welfare Learning Community, Community Organizing Learning Community, and the Student Union are cohosting a forum about the policies and national developments related to Gun Control Reform. Susan Morrel-Samuels, Managing Director of the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center, will be speaking as a member of an expert panel along with SSW faculty, and community representatives to discuss the developments, the …
By: Susan Morrel-Samuels, MA, MPH, MI-YVPC Managing Director Most of us are familiar with some of the steps that have led to greater safety on our highways. Air bags, seat belts, strict penalties for drunk driving, graduated drivers’ licensing, and better road design are examples of successful highway safety strategies. As a result, rates of death from automobile crashes in …
By: Pete Hutchison, YES Program Manager and Flint resident Sitting in my office in Flint, Michigan reflecting on the tragedy that has taken place in Connecticut, I’m not sure what to make of it. After spending 39 years trying to prevent violence generally and youth violence specifically, it seems that there should be something profound to say. Yet as I …
Nine school violence prevention researchers and practitioners nationwide have developed a position statement on the Dec. 14, 2012 Connecticut school shootings that is being disseminated across the U.S. today. This statement is in response to the tragic acts of violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School and updates the School Shootings Position Statement that was disseminated nationally following the tragic school-related …
Our hearts grieve for the families of Newtown, Connecticut, and for every family who has lost a child through homicide. In the United States, an average of seven young people under the age of twenty are murdered each day. Most of these children die as a result of firearm injuries. By applying public health principles, childhood deaths from infectious diseases …
By: Corine Rosenberg, UM UROP Student The Hundred Dresses by Mary Hall Surface is a play based on the Newbery Honor Book by Eleanor Estes and is the Flint Youth Theatre’s second production in their 2012-2013 series. The play follows Maddie, a young girl who finds herself a bystander to bullying, watching her “popular” group of friends tease another girl. …
October 16, 2012: “Youth Peer Violence & Depressive Symptoms: What’s the Connection?” Megan Ranney, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University “Understanding Spatial Variations on the Effectiveness of Graduated Driver Licensing Programs in the State of Michigan” Peter X. K. Song, PhD, Professor, Biostatistcs, University of Michigan School of Public Health Location: U-M …
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