Educational Tools/Resources

• CDF'sProtect Children Instead of Guns Community Action Tool Kit
  This is a toolkit for people interested in taking action against gun violence in their community, and includes information on how to organize coalitions, engage the media, and contact elected officials.

Reports/Publications

• Children, Youth and Gun Violence(2002)
  This Summer/Fall 2002 issue of  the journal The Future of Children focuses on how gun violence affects youth, and which policies hold promise to reduce youth gun violence.
• First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws (2003)
  This CDC review finds insufficient scientific evidence to determine the effectiveness of a variety of firearms laws in preventing violence, including violent crimes, suicide, and unintentional injury.
• Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence(1999) 
  This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report identifies and reviews promising and demonstrated strategies to reduce gun violence.
• Protect Children Instead of Guns 2004 (2004)
  This annual Children's Defense Fund report provides the latest data from the CDC on youth firearm deaths, with tables showing:  firearms deaths by manner and race; by state; and by age, manner and race/Hispanic origin.
• Source of Firearms Used by Students in School-Associated Violent Deaths - United States, 1992-1999  (2003)
  This CDC report reveals the majority of the guns used in school-related firearm deaths in the 1990s were obtained from perpetrators' homes or from friends or relatives.
• Weapons Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001 (2003)
  This Bureau of Justice Statistics report discusses the nature and prevalence of violent crime by armed offenders and the consequences to the victims. Figures show trends on weapon use by offenders.

Links to Other Resources

• Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
  offers fact sheets and other resources to educate the public about gun violence, including the STOP 2 kit to  assist healthcare providers to talk to patients and their families about the risks of keeping a gun in the home
• Common Sense about Kids and Guns
  provides a clearinghouse of information to educate the public about the unsupervised access to guns by children and adolescents; offers safety tips, state-specific statistics and resources, and a searchable Web resources database
• Harvard Injury Control Research Center
  offers a focus on research of the causes of youth and family violence and injury due to substance abuse and firearms, firearms research reviews, and the National Violent Injury Statistics System
• Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (JHCGPR)
  provides center factsheets, monographs, slideshows, and other educational resources about gun policy, gun violence and prevention strategies
• Join Together Online
  offers Internet resources for community-based efforts to address substance abuse and gun violence
• Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR®)
  offers information on firearm policy, tools for health professionals in talking with patients and the public about gun violence prevention, firearm fact sheets and bibliography, and advocacy resources
• Violence Policy Center (VPC)
  offers resources on gun violence issues, including center reports, state firearm laws, fact sheets, and resource links