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Planting produce gardens leads to improved yard maintenance by residents

Planting produce gardens, trees, and flowers in a neighborhood, is good for residents.  Creating green spaces and improving blighted properties (removing graffiti, litter,…
March 25, 2015
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Firearm accidents can be prevented; they don’t “just happen”

Three tragic gun deaths have made news recently. In the first, an Iowa mother was shot by her two year…
January 22, 2015
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Study of assault-injured teens shows many return to ER with additional injuries within first 6 months

Teens and young adults who get seriously injured in an assault are nearly twice as likely as their peers to…
November 13, 2014

Building Prevention Infrastructure to Reduce Delinquency, Violence and Substance Use

We are looking forward to the upcoming UM Injury Center Distinguished Faculty Seminar featuring Dr. Richard Catalano, PhD, Bartley Dobb Professor…
November 6, 2014
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Kettering University receives additional $1 million for blight removal in Flint

In addition to the CPTED grant just announced last week, Kettering University and UACC partners received an additional $1 million…
October 7, 2014
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Emerging artist Darnell Ishmel to perform upcoming recital

For the past three summers, Darnell Ishmel has worked as a property assessor for the Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center.…
October 2, 2014
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Grant awarded to evaluate crime prevention through environmental design in Flint, MI

We are pleased to announce that we were just awarded funding from the Centers for Disease Control to study the effects of…
September 11, 2014
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Online Dating Aggression Linked to Community Violence

We’ve seen the headlines about young people being bullied by boyfriends or girlfriends through digital means such as the Internet…
September 10, 2014