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	PREVENT offers educational programs to train individuals and organizations to prevent violence before it begins. They include, the intensive PREVENT Institute and distance learning resources.		PREVENT hopes to foster new and more effective partnerships as an outcome of networking opportunities.		PREVENT provides short-term and ongoing technical assistance from experienced advisors to help individuals and teams improve both their on-the-job skills and their organizations capacity to prevent violence.

-We are now accepting applications for the 2008 PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute: Enhancing Leadership for Child Maltreatment Prevention.
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Apply now for PREVENT’s upcoming state-of-the-art Child Maltreatment Institute: Enhancing Leadership for Child Maltreatment Prevention. Application deadline for is August 1, 2008. The Institute will provide experienced, multi-organizational teams access to expert faculty in child maltreatment and primary prevention and the opportunity to network with other leaders from across the country. Trained coaches will use an action learning approach to facilitate and support teams in producing concrete outcomes such as:

a detailed, team-based 6-month action plan focused on developing an effective program that stimulates organizational and social change;
a Logic Model that outlines the transition from the 6-month plan into a comprehensive primary prevention program over a 5-year period;
a framework for program evaluation with measurable objectives;
communication strategies and message development for media and legislative advocacy; and
approaches for achieving program sustainability

The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute consists of two (2) intensive three-day, on-site sessions separated by six months of team project work at home with an experienced coach. The first three-day on-site session will be November 16-19, 2008 at the Sheraton Chapel Hill Hotel, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The second on-site session will be conducted in May 2009.

Multi-organizational teams of up to 6 people will be selected based on their experience working together, demonstration of leadership in child maltreatment prevention AND readiness to take an increased leadership role in making social and organizational changes to prevent child maltreatment. The Institute will cover lodging and most meals for up to 4 team members (up to 2 additional members are welcome but must cover their own lodging; their meals will be provided by PREVENT). Selected teams are responsible for travel and a one-time non-refundable $750 team registration fee.

-IPRC, PREVENT, and InjuryEd.org have collaborated to produce updates to the CDC's Handbook on Injury and Violence Prevention. Download the update bulletins

The PREVENT Child Maltreatment Institute is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and is operated by The University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center, a partner in the National Training Initiative for Injury and Violence Prevention (NTI). PREVENT was launched in 2003 with support from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at CDC and has trained more than 900 violence practitioners in 44 states in the primary prevention of different types of violence.