 | ACE/UPACE ProgramBackground, Goals and Objectives of the National ACE Program The National Academic Centers of Excellence (ACEs) on Youth Violence Prevention Program was initially developed with support from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control's Division of Violence Prevention in 2000. Currently, the ACE Program includes eight ACEs whose research and programmatic activities will receive support from 2005 to 2010, and two UPACEs that will receive support from 2006 to 2011. This program was established to connect academic and community resources to study and create lasting ways to address youth violence in some of the most high-risk and vulnerable communities in the United States. The ACE Program was also created to support the rapid dissemination and translation of youth violence prevention research into effective community practices. |
Columbia UniversityColumbia Center for Youth Violence PreventionBruce Link, PhD - Principal Investigator Mailman School of Public Health 722 W. 168th St. Suite 1609 New York, NY 10032 Email: Bgl1@columbia.edu http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/ccyvp | Johns Hopkins UniversityJohns Hopkins University Center for the Prevention of Youth ViolencePhillip Leaf, PhD – Principal Investigator Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health 624 North Broadway Baltimore, MD 21205 Email: pleaf@jhsph.edu http://www.jhsph.edu/PreventYouthViolence/index.html |
The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention CenterJoel A. Fein, MD, MPH – Principal InvestigatorJoseph Stokes, Jr. Research Institute 3615 Civic Center Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19104-4318 Email: fein@email.chop.edu | Meharry Medical CollegeNashville Urban Partnership Academic Center of ExcellencePaul D. Juarez, PhD – Principal Investigator 1005 Dr. D.B. Todd, Jr. Blvd Nashville, TN 37208 Email: pjuarez@mmc.edu pjuarez@mmc.edu |
Harvard UniversityHarvard Youth Violence Prevention CenterDavid Hemenway, Ph.D. – Principal Investigator Harvard School of Public Health Policy and Management 677 Huntington Ave., Kresge 309 Boston MA 02115 Email: Hemenway@hsph.harvard.edu http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hyvpc | University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley Center on Culture, Immigration, and Violence PreventionFranklin Zimring, JD - Principal Investigator Institute for the Study of Social Change 383 Boalt Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 Email: Zimring@law.berkeley.edu http://www.yvpcenter.org |
University of Illinois, ChicagoChicago Center for Youth Violence PreventionDeborah Gorman-Smith, PhD – Principal Investigator Institute of Juvenile Research (M/C 747) Department of Psychiatry 1747 W Roosevelt Rd. Chicago, IL 60608 Email: debgs@uic.edu http://www.psych.uic.edu/ccyvp/index.html | University of California, RiversideRiverside Southern California Academic Center of Excellence on Youth Violence PreventionNancy Guerra, PhD - Principal Investigator University of California at Riverside Presley Center for Crime and Justice 110 College Building South Riverside, CA 92521 Email: http://www.stopyouthviolence.ucr.edu |
Virginia Commonwealth UniversityVirginia Commonwealth University Center for Youth Violence PreventionAlbert Farrell, PhD – Principal Investigator Department of Psychology Box 842018 Richmond, VA 23284 Email: afarrell@mail1.vcu.edu http://www.octobercenter.vcu.edu | University of Hawaii at MânoaAsian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention CenterEarl Hishinuma, PhD – Principal Investigator John A. Burns School of Medicine 1441 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1802 Honolulu, HI 96814 Email: hishinumae@dop.hawaii.edu http://www.apiyvpc.org |
