OUR MISSION - is to establish the Nashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence (NUPACE), Youth Violence Prevention to promote an academic/ community partnership that integrates prevention science with community action in order to reduce violence among youth 10-24 years of age in Nashville/Davidson County TN.

Meeting Schedule:

• Next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, September 2, 2010 from 3-4:30 pm at Oasis Center, 1703 Charlotte Ave, Suite 200, Nashville, TN 37203

• Ongoing meetings: We will meet regularly from 3-4:30 pm

  • 1st Thursday of the month at Oasis Center, 1703 Charlotte Ave, Suite 200
  • 3rd Thursday of the month at the Neighborhood resource Center, 1312 3rd Ave North - Nashville, TN 37208

Resources to help with planning:

• Description of youth violence prevention evidence based programs
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention Model Programs
• Blueprints for Violence Prevention Promising Programs
• Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders Thinking and Acting To Prevent Violence
• Unintentional Injuries and Violence
• Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) 
• Teen Outreach Program - Overview Deck - Partnerships

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Nashville Community Coalition for Youth Safety (NCCYS)- What is the Coalition - The Nashville Community Coaltion for Youth Safety is a group of community members that will have the opportunity to contribute their expertise and experiences in order to ensure that the important research questions related to reducing violence among youth 10-24 years of age in Nashville/Davidson County, TN are thoroughly studied. Additionally, they are all committed to sharing the responsibility of decision making for all research, surveillance, programmatic and strategic planning activities for NUPACE.