Educational Tools/Resources

• AAP's Policy Statement: Firearm-Related Injuries Affecting the Pediatric Population (2000)
  The American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation regarding the importance of a variety of firearm-related injury reduction measures, including informing parents about the dangers of guns in and outside the home.
• CDF's Protect Children Instead of Guns Community Action Tool Kit
  This is a toolkit for people interested in taking action against gun violence in their community, and includes information on how to organize coalitions, engage the media, and contact elected officials.
• DAHI's Is Your Family Safe?
  This brochure is designed to educate patients who decide to keep a gun in the home about the risks and how to minimize those risks.
• DAHI's Preventing Handgun Injury and Death: Guidelines for Physicians (2002)
  This brochure provides guidelines for physicians to educate themselves and counsel patients about gun safety.
• HELP's Trigger Locks: What We Know and What's Needed
  This fact sheet summarizes what health professionals should know about how trigger locks can be most safely used. It also describes performance standards and the distribution of trigger locks with new handguns sold.
• JHCGPR's The Epidemiology of Firearm Death in the United States (2002)
  This PowerPoint slideshow reviews public health data on gun injury, suicide, homicide, and unintentional injuries. It includes speaker notes and explanations are included with each slide.

Reports/Publications

• Annotated Bibliography on Gun Injury Prevention-Relevant Research (2004)
  This HELP Network bibliography lists the most important articles on gun injury prevention from the public health perspective.
• Children, Youth and Gun Violence (2002)
  This Summer/Fall 2002 issue of  the journal The Future of Children focuses on how gun violence affects youth, and which policies hold promise to reduce youth gun violence.
• Factsheet: Firearm Injury and Death in the United States  (2004)
  This Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research factsheet is a comprehensive resource on the latest statistics and research on gun violence.
• Firearm Injury in the U.S. (2002)
  This Firearm Injury Center at Penn book is an inclusive introduction to firearm injury, describing the magnitude of the problem, current data, benefits of the public health approach, and how to identify potential interventions.
• First Reports Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Firearms Laws (2003)
  This CDC review finds insufficient scientific evidence to determine the effectiveness of a variety of firearms laws in preventing violence, including violent crimes, suicide, and unintentional injury.
• Guns and Domestic Violence: A Deadly Combination (2003) 
  This HELP Network report reviews key issues in intimate partner violence, discusses the significant role of firearms in fatal cases, and highlights legislation and policy issues related to prevention of these deaths.
• Promising Strategies to Reduce Gun Violence (1999) 
  This Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention report identifies and reviews promising and demonstrated strategies to reduce gun violence.
• Protect Children Instead of Guns 2004 (2004)
  This annual Children's Defense Fund report provides the latest data from the CDC on youth firearm deaths, with tables showing:  firearms deaths by manner and race; by state; and by age, manner and race/Hispanic origin.
• Source of Firearms Used by Students in School-Associated Violent Deaths - United States, 1992-1999  (2003)
  This CDC report reveals the majority of the guns used in school-related firearm deaths in the 1990s were obtained from perpetrators' homes or from friends or relatives.
• Weapons Use and Violent Crime, 1993-2001 (2003)
  This Bureau of Justice Statistics report discusses the nature and prevalence of violent crime by armed offenders and the consequences to the victims. Figures show trends on weapon use by offenders.

Links to Other Resources

• American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): Violence Prevention
  provides violence and firearms injury prevention resources for physicians and parents, including a searchable Violence Intervention and Prevention Program Database
• Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
  offers fact sheets and other resources to educate the public about gun violence, including the STOP 2 kit to  assist healthcare providers to talk to patients and their families about the risks of keeping a gun in the home
• Common Sense about Kids and Guns
  provides a clearinghouse of information to educate the public about the unsupervised access to guns by children and adolescents; offers safety tips, state-specific statistics and resources, and a searchable Web resources database
• Doctors Against Handgun Injury (DAHI)
  offers political advocacy tips and educational resources for physicians to educate the public and policymakers about the problem of gun injury
• Firearm Injury Center, Medical College of Wisconsin
  offers a glossary of handgun and handgun safety technology, and reports and presentations based on the Violent Injury Reporting System, which links and analyzes data on all violent fatalities in Wisconsin.
• Harvard Injury Control Research Center
  offers a focus on research of the causes of youth and family violence and injury due to substance abuse and firearms, firearms research reviews, and the National Violent Injury Statistics System
• HELP Network (HELP)
  provides publications and other resources on firearm injury and death, focusing on prevention/policy solutions)
• Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research (JHCGPR)
  provides center factsheets, monographs, slideshows, and other educational resources about gun policy, gun violence and prevention strategies
• Join Together Online
  offers Internet resources for community-based efforts to address substance abuse and gun violence
• Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV)
  provides legal assistance to advocates seeking regulatory solutions to prevent gun violence, information about  federal, state and local firearm laws and policies, and analyses of pertinent legal issues
• Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR®)
  offers information on firearm policy, tools for health professionals in talking with patients and the public about gun violence prevention, firearm fact sheets and bibliography, and advocacy resources
• Trauma Foundation
  provides injury and violence prevention resources, including firearm fact sheets on the cost of firearm violence and policy briefs on reducing access to firearms
• Violence Policy Center (VPC)
  offers resources on gun violence issues, including center reports, state firearm laws, fact sheets, and resource links