The mission of the Center for Child and Adolescent Violence Prevention is to carry out research, service, and training progtrams to reduce violence affecting high risk children and adolescents all over the world. The Center maintains a special focus on African-American adolescents as the population at greatest risk for violence.
Background
The Center is a program of the School of Professional Psychology at Wright State University. It was developed as an outgrowth of youth violence prevention work which began in 1988 in cooperation with Dayton Public Schools. The Center was originally established and directed by W. Rodney Hammond, Ph.D., now the Director of the Division of Violence Prevention for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia.