According to a recently released report from the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, districts and schools should consider a coordinated and comprehensive strategy to...
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Media Mention: School Safety Technology Aims To Protect Students This Fall
Technology has become a keystone for making schools safe for kids these days. It’s appearing everywhere, even in things as simple as the visitors’ sign-in sheet. Dr. Elyse Thulin speaks with Tech...
Media Mention: U-M partnership shows that ‘green’ communities experience reduced violence
In an effort to address community violence throughout the state and nationwide, University of Michigan researchers are partnering with community members and local organizations to implement and...
Media Mention: Firearm violence in communities increases risk of cardiovascular disease death, study finds
Living in areas with higher rates of gun violence may increase the risk of dying from stress-related cardiovascular disease, according to new research from University of Michigan School of Public...
Media Mention: NYC shooter had two ‘mental health holds’ in Las Vegas. They didn’t affect his legal right to own guns
Records released this week by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police confirm they had several contacts in recent years with the 27-year-old man who drove to New York and killed four people on July 28. The...
SafERteens Mortality Follow-up: Institute for Firearm Injury Proposal
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Media Mention: One state’s innovative approach to protecting domestic violence survivors
People who are convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic abuse or subject to a qualifying protective order aren’t allowed to have firearms according to federal law, but actually separating them...
Media Mention: How to help someone, or yourself, in a mental health crisis
Michigan Medicine has put together a robust list of resources, services and tools for anyone in need of assistance in a mental health crisis. The list includes the Institute's Safe Storage and...
Registration Open: 2025 Michigan Gun Violence Intervention Summit
The Michigan State Police (MSP) Grants and Community Services Division, in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the University of Michigan Institute for...
Media Mention: Gun violence prevention program extends in Muskegon County schools
Several schools in Muskegon County piloted a program over the last year seeking to prevent youth gun violence. After seeing success, the SafER Teens one-on-one mentoring program will continue for...
Adaptive interventions for alcohol misuse and violent behaviors among adolescents and emerging adults in the emergency department: Outcomes from a sequential multiple assignment randomized controlled trial
Walton, M. A., Seewald, L., Carter, P. M., Ngo, Q., Blow, F. C., Bourque, C., Pearson, C., Battisti, K. A., An, L., Wank, M., Zhu, Y., & Kidwell, K. M. (2025). Adaptive interventions for alcohol...
Firearm transactions and background checks in Missouri, USA in 2020
Weigend Vargas, E., Lee, D. B., Hans, Z., Goldstick, J. E., Simmons, M., & Carter, P. M. (2025). Firearm transactions and background checks in Missouri, USA in 2020. Journal of Public Health...