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A Good Solution Solves Multiple Problems: Exploring Prevention Strategies that Address Multiple Forms of Violence lays out the multiple connections among child abuse, intimate partner violence and community violence. This paper focuses on the interrelationships among forms of violence, the expertise that practitioners working on different fields bring to a shared solution, and the imperative to move beyond silos and take action.

Reducing Children’s Exposure to Violence: Maximizing Outcomes through Multi-Sector Engagement explores the benefits of engaging multiple sectors in reducing traumatic exposures. It examines the benefits for children and youth, as well as for each of the sectors. The health, education and justice sectors, for instance, can’t fulfill their own mandates as effectively when children and youth are exposed to violence. Using a Collaboration Multiplier analysis, this paper details the assets each sector can contribute to a shared effort, the differences that must be bridged, and possible multi-sector strategies.

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