Featured Grant OpportunitySchool Emergency Response to Violence (Project SERV) (Funding Opportunity) 

Featured Grant OpportunityShare with Youth: NOAA Student Opportunities Database

Featured Grant OpportunityShort Courses in Social Determinants of Health for Research Education in Nursing Research (Funding...

Featured Grant OpportunityComprehensive Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equity (CPACHE) Program (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityRisk and Protective Factors of Family Health and Family Level Interventions (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityPersonnel Development to Improve Services and Results for Children with Disabilities--Doctoral...

Featured Grant OpportunityStanding Announcement for Tribal Title IV-E Plan Development Grants (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityProviding Research Education Experiences to Enhance Inclusivity for a Diverse Substance Use and...

Featured Grant OpportunityFY 2024 Research on School-Based Hate Crimes (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityChallenge America (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityResearch and Evaluation on Firearm Violence and Mass Shootings (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityNational Juvenile Court Data Archive (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityGraduate Research Fellowship (Funding Opportunity)

Featured Grant OpportunityCommunity Programs for Outreach and Intervention with Youth and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk...

Featured Grant OpportunityPrint and Disseminate Child Victims and Witnesses Support Materials (Funding Opportunity)

##  More Collaboration Profiles

## Breadcrumb

            -  Collaboration Profiles 
            -  STRYVE Houston 
            -           STRYVE Houston      

# STRYVE Houston

Accomplishments

To date, the work of partners has resulted in a number of “small” policy changes:
                      - The YWCA and many other community-based services have traditionally focused their efforts on young people up to age 14. Now, however, they have started to invest differently in their programs for 14- to 21-year olds, including creating jobs and leadership opportunities for young adults.
                      - Early in the STRYVE partnership, young people frequently received school suspensions because of inappropriate clothing. This was a problematic trend, because being taken out of the classroom or school is a risk factor for violence. Setting up a school-based clothing closet has helped to curb this problem. Students now have the alternative of simply changing their clothes instead of having to leave the classroom or school.
                      - In HDHHS, the directors formed an Office of Adolescent Health and Injury Prevention. This reflects how the STRYVE initiative and its partners are beginning to change existing infrastructure.
                      - Houston’s Police Department is increasingly implementing  CPTED , an evidence-based environmental strategy for decreasing youth violence. CPTED is based on a theory that the physical environment can positively or negatively influence the occurrence of youth violence. More specifically, as part of a Corner Store Initiative, the Houston Police Department brought training about CPTED to owners and employees of convenience stores to increase the safety of those environments.
                      - More organizations have formed youth advisory councils since STRYVE started.

## Main navigation

- Overview
- Collaboration Purpose
- About the Collaboration
- Collaboration Structure
- Promising Practices
- Lessons Learned
- Accomplishments
- Resources

## Help Spread the Word About youth.gov

Get a Web Badge