to Prevent Youth Violence

The mission of NUPACE 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.

OUR GOALS

1. Bring together researchers, practitioners, community representatives, youth and policy makers in an integrated; inter-disciplinary approach to prevent youth violence in Nashville/Davidson County.
   
2. Develop an integrated, multi-level, youth violence prevention strategic plan for Nashville/Davidson County that utilizes a public health approach.
   
3. Conduct a targeted, inter-disciplinary, program of prevention research that investigates the context, causes and consequences of youth violence that uses community-based participatory research methods.
   
4. Identify, support and evaluate promising interventions.
   
5. Establish a County-wide youth violence prevention surveillance system.
   
6. Monitor changes in violence among youth 10-24 years of age.
   
7. Facilitate communication about youth violence and prevention related activities to local partners.
   
8. Translate and disseminate results of youth violence prevention research and programmatic activities to local communities, professional audiences, and policy makers.