The Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention
The Center on Culture, Immigration, and Youth Violence Prevention (the Center) is a project of the Institute for the Study of Social Change, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Law (Boalt Hall), and the University of California, San Francisco. The Center is one of eight Academic Centers for Excellence nationwide funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address youth violence.
Other Center partners include researchers from local institutions, community organizations, and state, local, and federal agencies.
The Center’s goal is to reduce youth violence, especially among Asian/Pacific Islander (API) and Latino immigrant populations in Oakland, California.
Mission
- To research the causes and prevention of youth violence, focusing on API and Latino immigrant populations in Oakland.
- To enhance community capacity to prevent and reduce youth violence through data gathering, information dissemination, and youth and community involvement.
- To provide a gathering place for community members, policymakers, and researchers to identify shared priorities; develop innovative strategies for studying these concerns; and translate information and knowledge into viable community practices.
- To utilize community-based participatory research approaches in data collection and analysis, including collaboration with community members, to understand and prevent youth violence.