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Dan Gross to Join Brady Center
The Center to Prevent Youth Violence, the nation’s leading non political organization committed to reducing youth violence, announces that Executive Director and Co-Founder, Dan Gross will be joining the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence as their President at the end of February. CPYV’s Board of Directors, staff and supporters are proud that Dan will apply [...]
Evaluation of the ASK Campaign Published
Recently, researchers from the Harvard and Boston University Schools of Public Health published a study evaluating CPYV’s ASK campaign. ASK, which stands for Asking Saves Kids, is a community-based program that encourages parents to ask about the presence and storage of firearms in the homes their children visit, with the goal of reducing firearm injuries [...]
The Latest on Physicians and Guns: New Article from Harvard Researchers Finds Doctors Play a Key Role in Firearm Injury Prevention
This June, lawmakers in Florida passed an act that prevents family doctors from asking parents about guns in the home. Medical Societies and Public Health Organizations, such as the American Academy of Pediatrics, fought against this law, arguing that it prevent physicians from effectively doing their jobs. In September, the act was temporarily blocked by [...]
Do the families of your kids’ friends own a gun? You should ask
October 8 article in The Indianapolis Star: John and Elizabeth Gray didn’t think about asking if there were guns in the house when choosing a home day care for their son. They trusted the sitter so much they left Nathaniel there overnight when John, a musician, traveled for shows. Even when Elizabeth learned that the sitter’s [...]
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