This website was formed by Advanced Practice Nursing students from the University of Massachusetts-Worcester, in an effort to aid in the prevention of violence and injury.

Injury - Unintentional or intentional damage to the body resulting from acute exposure to thermal, mechanical, electrical, or chemical energy or from the absence of such essentials as heat or oxygen (Healthy People 2010)

Violence - The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against another person or against oneself or against a group of people, that results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological harm, mal-development, or deprivation (Healthy People 2010)

About 400 persons die from injuries each day, including 55 children and teenagers.

According to the CDC, unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children and adults.

In adolescents, the second and third leading causes of death are homicide and suicide, with the majority of these deaths involving firearms.

• Reduce the rate of physical assault by current or former intimate partners
• Reduce the annual rate of rate or attempted rate
• Reduce sexual assaults other than rape
• Reduce physical assaults
• Reduce physical fighting among adolescents
• Reduce weapon carrying by adolescents on school property
• Reduce firearm related deaths
• Reduce the proportion of persons living in homes with firearms that are loaded and unlocked
• Reduce nonfatal firearm-related injuries
• Reduce homicides
• Reduce maltreatment and maltreatment fatalities of children