The conference is co-sponsored with the Victim Services Agency and the New York City Department of Health.
Media coverage is invited.
The past decade has seen sharp increases in the United States youth-related violence, according to Gerry Landsberg, professor of social work at the NYU Ehrenkranz School. Additionally, children and adolescents are more likely than any other age group to be at risk of becoming victims of violent crime. Beginning at 9 a.m. on December 10, the NYU Ehrenkranz School of Social Work will explore several model programs that seek to prevent and intervene in youth violence. Welcoming remarks will be offered by Ehrenkranz School Dean Thomas Meenaghan, with NYC Dept. of Health Commissioner Neal Cohen and Victim Services Agency Head Gordon Campbell. The keynote speaker is Ronald Slaby, who is with Harvard s Education Development Center, and is co-author of a National Plan for Preventing Violence in America for the Center for Disease Control.