This document outlines our future direction and the UNITY priorities that emerged at the September 2010 UNITY Strategy Convening in Oakland, California. It describes eight key themes, provides an overview of UNITY accomplishments to date, and includes next steps for UNITY to continue building national momentum for preventing violence.

Since its inception in 2005, UNITY has built support for effective, scalable and sustainable efforts to prevent violence before it occurs. This publication shares UNITY's lessons learned and summarizes the initiative's achievements over the last six years. Created in 2010 and updated for 2011, "A Six-Year Snapshot" provides context for UNITY's accomplishments, and includes findings and recommendations for future work.

The Urban Agenda, developed by UNITY in collaboration with representatives from thirteen of the country's largest urban cities, calls for investment in the development, implementation, coordination, and evaluation of effective and sustainable approaches to prevent community and gang violence. The Urban Agenda calls attention to the need for city and neighborhood-level violence prevention strategies, grounded in research and informed by communities, that are designed to have the greatest impact in preventing violence. The Urban Agenda recommends that we: Invest in cities to implement effective

The UNITY RoadMap Gauge can provide a snapshot of your city's efforts, gauge your city's level of effort and effectiveness, and prioritize areas of focus for a city committed to preventing violence.

Violence is among the most serious health threats in the nation today, jeopardizing the health and safety of the public. Recognizing that law enforcement alone cannot solve the problem of violence, practitioners have increasingly turned toward a broader, more comprehensive approach. This document describes a framework that incorporates public health, law enforcement, social service, and education perspectives.

This Q&A on violence as a public health issue addresses key questions, including: Why is violence a public health issue? Is violence preventable? What is a public health approach to preventing violence? What does public health bring to solving our nation's violence problem? What is the role of public health in efforts to prevent violence? Where can I get more information about advancing a public health approach?

This framing brief explores how violence affecting youth has been portrayed in the news, how the issue of race complicates depictions of youth and violence, and how public attitudes about government shape popular support for violence prevention. Written by Berkeley Media Studies Group and commissioned by Prevention Institute and UNITY.

Provides a set of tools for city leaders to improve violence prevention strategies through effective, ongoing evaluation. Also provides information on available data sources.

Based on interviews with mayors, police chiefs, public health directors, school superintendents and a review of baseline data in a third of the largest U.S. cities, this UNITY report presents key findings and recommendations to inform an urban approach to preventing violence.

Offers a presentation abstract from the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, April 2008.