STRYVE: Striving To Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere

STRYVE is a national initiative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to prevent youth violence. To realize its vision—safe and healthy youth who can achieve their full potential as connected and contributing members of thriving, violence-free families, schools, and communities—STRYVE is working to

• Increase awareness that youth violence can and should be prevented;
• Promote the use of youth violence prevention approaches that are based on the best available evidence; and
• Provide guidance to communities on how to prevent youth violence.

Through its interacting components, STRYVE helps communities take a public health approach to preventing youth violence—stopping it before it even starts.

Watch videos about STRYVE to learn more. 

STRYVE Tools, Training, and Resources for Communities

Effective youth violence prevention requires information on what has worked and how successful efforts can be replicated and sustained. A cornerstone of STRYVE is guidance on actions that communities can take to plan and implement prevention approaches that are based on the best available evidence.  Two of CDC’s resources for communities are

• STRYVE’s online component—at www.VetoViolence.org/STRYVE—provides the latest information, tools, and interactive training videos, and links to a customized online workspace to help communities to plan, implement, and evaluate an approach to youth violence prevention.

• UNITY—Urban Networks Increasing Thriving Youth—works with large urban centers to enhance their readiness for violence prevention, help organize their planning, and increase their capacity to address youth violence using a public health approach.

STRYVE Communities

Beginning in Fall 2011, up to four local public health departments will receive training and technical assistance resources to build multisector coalitions to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive youth violence prevention plans and activities based on the best available evidence in high risk communities.

STRYVE Partnerships

Preventing youth violence is a shared responsibility among all those who help shape the relationships and environments where youth live, learn, and develop. The complexity of youth violence requires a unified action by multiple sectors and disciplines, including justice, education, labor, social services, public health and safety, and youth-serving organizations. STRYVE forges partnerships with national organizations and engages in collaborative action to help inform and support local activities to prevent youth violence.

Watch a recap video of the first STRYVE Partnership Network meeting hosted by CDC and the STRYVE Action Council held March 16–17, 2011, in Washington, DC, and the US Surgeon General's video greeting to meeting participants.

Get Involved

• Organizations interested in joining the STRYVE Partnership Network should send an e-mail to STRYVEPartners@cdc.gov.
• Download the STRYVE badge featured here from CDC’s Buttons and Badges Gallery to use on your Web site and share with members of your organization.
• Visit STRYVE Online.

Learn More

• STRYVE [PDF 615KB]
• STRYVE Online Information [PDF 912KB]
• STRYVE Partnership Pledge [139KB]