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This blog post explores the Violence Prevention Navigation Framework (VPNF)—a new method for addressing gun violence. VPNF helps state and local leaders make informed, strategic decisions about gun violence prevention.

This post is the second in a series that explores how one New Orleans classroom is helping to cultivate student leadership and a deeper understanding of what it means to be safe at school. 

Research topics and designs typically reflect funders’ or researchers’ agendas and biases. Rarely is research informed by the voices of the people whose lives our work intends to affect.

In observance of National Bullying Prevention Month, WestEd is highlighting trends in bullying, challenges to prevention, promising practices, and evidence-based resources.

In this blog post, the JPRC’s research team explores the critical role of Regression Discontinuity Design (RDD) in advancing evidence-informed policy, particularly in justice settings.

This Spotlight blog explores data-driven decision-making across the justice and education systems, as well as WestEd’s tools and research to evaluate interventions and address disparities, particularly for vulnerable populations like justice-involved youths and students in foster care.

Promising new findings are validating the effectiveness of Healthy U, an innovative, app-based sexual health program that addresses high rates of pregnancy among teens involved with the justice system.

Researchers from the WestEd Justice & Prevention Research Center explore what they’ve learned through surveys, interviews, and focus groups with staff at 186 public high schools in Texas over the last two years.

Dr. Carolyn Turpin-Petrosino, one of the world’s leading experts on hate crimes, discusses the nation’s history of anti-Asian bias and violence and offers suggestions for combatting it.

Dr. Peter Langman, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on school shootings, discusses ways to improve school safety, including identifying warning signs and using threat assessments.