UR Action Targeted Violence Prevention Resources
 
This page offers UR Action resources to the broader community of targeted violence prevention practitioners and researchers.

The resources featured here are used in the Department of Homeland Security-funded Uniting to Prevent Targeted Violence (UPTV) in South-Central Pennsylvania program, a non-partisan initiative led by UR Action that brings together 28 Pennsylvanians in Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, and York Counties to work across divides to prevent targeted violence. UPTV kicked off in Gettysburg on February 18, 2023 and will run through August 2024. 

Uniters Teams' Projects

Each team of Uniters is working with a community partner to implement a primary prevention project that strengthens social services to address underlying risk factors for targeted violence. Below are the projects that the teams of Uniters are implementing with community partners in Adams, Dauphin, Franklin, and York Counties:

• Just for Today Recovery & Veteran's Support Services promoting stronger relationships and understanding among veterans and service providers, including co-responders, in Dauphin County.
• Mediation Services of Adams County: Promoting constructive conversation to defuse political tension in Adams County.
• South Central Community Action Programs (SCCAP): Addressing housing needs in Franklin County through an approach that humanizes people in need as well as those who are offering solutions.

• Suicide Prevention of York: Implementing a support system to address risk factors (e.g., feelings of hopelessnes and unworthiness) for suicide and targeted violence, thereby reducing loneliness, unworthiness, and violence and creating hope in York County.

Media Literacy

Our partner, the News Literacy Project, offers several free media literacy resources for the public, including an e-learning platform, an app, a new podcast, shareable tips, tools, quizzes and an annual news literacy event. 

The ABCs of Constructive Dialogue

We use the ABCs of Constructive Dialogue to achieve mutual understanding of different perspectives on targeted violence.

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Problem Tree Analysis

We create Problem Trees to analyze causes and effects of targeted violence across systems.

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Project Design Framework

We use the Project Design Framework to develop interventions to address causes of targeted violence.

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This project is funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, opportunity number DHS-22-TTP-132-00-01.