The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center

Violence is taking its toll among young people in many of the country's urban communities, including Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Collaborative Violence Prevention Center (PCVPC) was established as an Urban Partnership Academic Center of Excellence (UPACE) in 2006 through a cooperative agreement with The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) with the goal of preventing violence and aggression in the lives of youth in West and Southwest Philadelphia. Through a truly collaborative relationship, PCVPC brings together academic institutions (The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, and Drexel University) and community-based organizations (Philadelphia Area Research Community Coalition) to share equally in planning, leadership, analysis, and dissemination of research results. Along with partners at Drexel and Penn, PCVPC serves as the Philadelphia headquarters of the National Network of Hospital-based Violence Intervention Programs (NNHVIP).