Silent Witness National Initiative
Silent Witness began promoting an end to domestic violence in 1990. Their goal is to end the silence about domestic violence and bring successful prevention programs to every state. They have traveling exhibits, training programs, and lots of ways for interested people to get involved. If you want to do something about domestic violence in your community, click the "Get Involved" link on their home page.

Turn Off The Violence
Turn Off the Violence has been praised for making violence prevention do-able for average people, people of all ages, people of all walks of life. They share "knowledge, resources, and strength to make changes" in your life and, ultimately, in society. Check out the "How YOU can Turn Off The Violence" section.

The Scary Guy
This guy IS scary... To look at! and that's his point. We shouldn't judge people by their appearances. Scary, as his pals call him, has his whole body covered with tattoos, and a little body piercing too. He is America's Only Live Comic Book Hero. His organization, "KidsVisionHeart" is a non-profit dedicated to the "Total elimination of hate, violence, and prejudice worldwide." He's traveling the country spreading the very positive messages of awareness, understanding, acceptance and love to schools, churches and other organizations. You can see his picture at his cool website. We like him. Check out his "Seven Pledges - Oath For Kids"

SCMS Movie Violence Count and Ratings
This is a really cool movie violence page that has been collecting data since the early 1980's. They do such a great job of tracking violence you can track in a bunch of different ways.

The Center for Media Literacy
The Center for Media Literacy develops and distributes educational materials and programs that promote critical thinking about the media: from television to t-shirts, from billboards to the Internet. A not-for-profit membership organization established in 1989. Great information on the influence of media in our lives, and on the "articles" page you'll find information on how to start a postcard campaign.

The William Jenkins Memorial Website
This is a memorial website to a young man who was killed by an illegally obtained handgun. William Jenkins was 16 years old when he was murdered during the course of a robbery at his place of employment on August 12, 1997. If you're looking for motivation to do something about violence, this is a good place to visit. Wills' father Bill Jenkins wrote the book: What to do When the Police Leave: A Guide to the First Days of Traumatic Loss, to help families who are facing a similar tragedy.

Join Together Online Gun Violence
Nicely organized site keeps you current with news clips, press releases and initiatives that are underway regarding gun violence.

REPORT-IT.COM
This is a very cool site with national 800 numbers for every imaginable crisis for a teen. Finding a creative way to make this list available in your school could save a life. They have a Very Cool template for a school violence prevention web page. If you're computer literate or just really motivated it could be an important thing to help create.

Teens, Crime, and the Community
Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) is a nationwide effort implemented at the local level to reduce the incidence of teen violence and engage teens as crime prevention resources in their schools and communities. With their help you might set up a TCC program in your neighborhood.

YAR - Youth As Resources
YAR is a community-based program that provides small grants to young people to design and carry out service projects that address social problems and contribute to significant community change. Great ideas for community projects and even the possibility of getting funding for your violence prevention project!

Preventviolence.org
Every neighborhood has the potential to reduce youth violence. This site from the State of California invites you to explore what can be done in your community to create a safer and healthier environment for young people. Ideas, strategies and success stories that you might copy.

Youth Crime Watch of America
This is a non-profit organization that assists youth in actively reducing crime and drug use in their schools and communities. Information on programs, "free stuff," and "Strategies That Work."

Center for the Prevention of School Violence
The Center serves as a primary point of contact for dealing with the problem of school violence. It focuses on ensuring that schools are safe and secure so that every student is able to attend a school that is safe and secure, one that is free of fear and conducive to learning. Listings of projects, campaigns, research, special projects and resources.

National Night Out
This website has a description of what one community did to organize the event by getting lots of corporate involvement. You can learn what communities all across the country are doing by just entering "National Night Out" in any search engine.

Neighborhood Watch
This page from just one of 17,383 returns on a search of "Neighborhood Watch," is from Johnson City, Tennessee. This site makes suggestions on the following: How to protect your home, neighborhood, yourself and your car, How to spot a con artist and most importantly, how to report suspicious activities. The details may change for your neighborhood, but this site and many more like it show you how to get started with your own Neighborhood watch program.

National School Safety Center
The National School Safety Center was created by presidential directive in 1984 to meet a need for additional training and preparation in the area of school crime and violence prevention. The site has information on Safe Schools Week and School Safety Studies.

Columbine Healing Website
This website contains both stories from and messages to the students at Columbine High School. (Christian)

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
This is MADD's under 21 section that contains lots of great facts and information about youth programs. There's a "student activist" section, a calendar of events and a way to search for the MADD chapter in your state.

SADD - Students against Drunk Driving
This is the student version of MADD. Go to this site to locate a chapter in your community and for information on how you can to get involved in this important work.

Violence Prevention Resources
Violence Prevention Resources is one of several new, comprehensive children's and youth resource guides. The resources on this page can help you, your school, neighborhood or city to learn what fosters violence and what can be done to prevent it and to keep kids safe. Lots of good statistics and "to do" suggestions.

Connect for Kids
101 Things You Can Do for Our Children's Future - Anyone can work to make the lives of our children healthier and happier and everyone has a stake in doing so. Connect for Kids offers tips on what you can do in your home, school, and community. Good stuff for adults and kids.

The Lion and the Lamb Project
This group sponsors Violent Toy Trade-Ins throughout the country. Children bring in violent toys and transform them into a Peace Sculpture as a statement of their desire for a less violent and more peaceful world. They also sponsor Peaceable Play Days and nonviolent toy sales "which give children and parents opportunities to learn and remember all the different ways of having fun that do not center on violence as a theme."

National Coalition on Television Violence
Community action programs, an "Ideas for Action" section, listing of good books, links to other organizations on the subject of TV violence prevention.

Make The Peace
One comminutes efforts at peace making. Contains a non-violence pledge, information about a citizen youth council, and their UNITY program: Understanding Nationalities in Today's Youth.

PTA Community Violence Kit
This page contains the results of an online survey that asks the following questions: What scares or frightens you? What makes you feel safe? What makes you angry? and How would you control violence in schools? You can add your responses to the survey too!