Featured Resources

Identifying community resources and assets

• OJJDP Strategic Planning Tool includes a “Community Resource Inventory” that allows users to record and categorize information about their community organizations, programs, services, and activities into an online database.
• The Community Toolbox, a service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas, provides information and a variety of tools for assessing community resources and needs.
• MapYourCommunity. This interactive mapping tool, available on youth.gov, helps users locate Federally supported youth programs in their communities.
• Business Sector Action Checklist . Developed by the Prevention Institute, this is a list of concrete ways the business sector can support activities that prevent violence.