For the fundamentals on UNITY, we invite you to begin with these publications:

You can also find strategies, tools and resources on this topic in our UNITY initiative area, or browse all related publications, below.

This brief summarizes the UNITY City Network Web Forum, which took place in August 2009, and focuses on building an urban agenda for preventing violence, report-backs from participating cities, and updates on federal legislation relevant to violence prevention.

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This publication summarizes the UNITY City Network convening event in June 2009 in Oakland, Calif. To support urban efforts to prevent violence affecting youth, representatives of UNITY City Network refined the UNITY RoadMap framework and discussed how to advance a national agenda.

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Connie Rice’s presentation to the UNITY National Corsortium make the case for incorporating a public health approach into violence prevention efforts. They also illustrate many ways that city and county government can provide structural and systematic support for a public health approach to violence prevention and specifically gang reduction.

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