CDC's VetoViolence Website

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See the VetoViolence website to learn how to stop violence before it happens.

VetoViolence is CDC's online source of free violence prevention trainings, tools, and resources. Check out the VetoViolence website to learn how to stop violence—before it happens.

Why Use VetoViolence?

Are you a busy violence prevention practitioner, short on time, doing more with less, and looking for ways to maximize your resources? CDC's VetoViolence website offers free, online, interactive, and engaging violence prevention tools, trainings, and resources based on the best available evidence and research. The tools, trainings, and resources provide practical knowledge and skills to assist and enhance the work of violence prevention practitioners.

What's Available?

VetoViolence offers various trainings, tools, and resources to support you in creating safer communities.

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Snapshot is a resource that will help you understand the landmark Kaiser ACE Study. The study gave the public health field insight into how powerfully our experiences in childhood can influence our health as adults. But what exactly do we know about ACEs and what does that information mean for public health practitioners? Most importantly, how can we use what we know about ACEs to minimize their negative effects and ideally, prevent them from occurring in the first place? Check out the ACEs Snapshot to answer these questions and more.
Dating Matters® Capacity Assessment and Planning Tool is an online system that will help you assess and monitor your capacity for implementing a comprehensive teen dating violence initiative. The tool will help you gather information, generate reports, and work with partners to determine capacity priorities and to develop action plans.
Dating Matters® Training is an online course in which you can learn how to improve the health of teens and to prevent teen dating violence.
EvaluACTION is a new tool within VetoViolence that allows you to:
- Learn the dos and don'ts of evaluation.
- Debunk evaluation myths.
- Create, save, download, and edit your logic model and evaluation plan.
Principles of Prevention is an online training in which you learn how to apply key concepts of primary prevention, the public health approach, and the social-ecological model to your violence prevention work.
STRYVE Online Resources is where you will find Information, tools, and other resources that explain how to bring together a team and plan prevention strategies that can work to prevent youth violence in your community.
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Success Stories Portal is a tool you can use to create, save, download, and edit your stories of successful violence prevention efforts. You can showcase your positive results with partners once you create and download your success story.
Understanding Evidence is an online resource where you can learn the value of making evidence-informed decisions around violence prevention. You will discover the three types of evidence involved in decision-making, look at different data collection methodologies, and identify standards of practice in research evidence and factors that can influence decisions.
Community HealthSim is a new tool that demonstrates the connections between violence and community issues, such as struggling businesses and schools, overcrowded jails, and long wait hours in the emergency room. You will be a consultant to Vetoville and discover how planning and strategic action can prevent violence before it happens.

CDC’s VetoViolence website offers free, online, interactive violence prevention resources.

Who Should Use VetoViolence?

VetoViolence is designed primarily for violence prevention practitioners, but anyone working to prevent violence in their community will find the information useful. This includes, but is not limited to the following: