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Dr. Tracy Waasdorp shares how she and her team aim to test the addition of a virtual reality component to evidence-based bullying prevention programs implemented in Philadelphia schools.
A recently published study has established CHOP’s Friend to Friend as the first and only relational aggression intervention to demonstrate a decrease in relationally-aggressive behaviors among urban minority girls that continued at least a year after the conclusion of the program.
New research led by the Philadelphia ACE Task Force Research Workgroup uses a more socioeconomically and racially diverse urban population to measure both Conventional and Expanded (community-level) ACEs.
This post explores the topic of adolescent suicide and how the CHOP Emergency Department is employing a Behavioral Health Screen for all adolescents ages 14 to 19.
One Kind Word training teaches us to positively intervene when they see a parent-child conflict in a way that is helpful and supportive to both parent and child.
Today, the Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) team is proud to wear orange in support of victims of gun violence for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.
