violence prevention and youth development
Violence Prevention and Youth Development Out of all the programs and issues that the Children’s Defense Fund deals with, I picked the Violence Prevention and Youth Development program. ... The CDF believes that children “deserve to grow up in a nurturing environment that is free from violence and that promotes development from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood. ... They are trying to educate communities about environmental factors that add to violence amongst children and things that communities can do to prevent this from happening to their children. The website goes on to list several focal points of VPYD’s crusade to end violence. One of them is gun violence.