Although lockdown drills are a practice widely used in K-12 public schools across the United States to prepare students and staff to respond to acts of violence, research has only just begun to consider the impacts of these practices on those who participate in them....
Background and Objectives Approximately half of youth suicides involve firearms. The promotion of safe firearm storage in the home through lethal means counseling reduces suicide risk. We aimed to increase the documentation of firearm access and storage among children...
Objective To determine if firearm ownership is positively related to elevated child lead levels at a state-level, even when accounting for other sources of lead. Study design For this cross-sectional ecological study, we investigated whether household firearm...
Objectives Gun violence in the United States is a public health crisis. In 2019, gun injury became the leading cause of death among children aged birth to 19 years. Moreover, the United States has had 57 times as many school shootings as all other major industrialized...
Community gun violence disproportionately impacts youth in low-income urban neighborhoods. Integrating trauma-informed mental health care in community-based out-of-school time (OST) programs is an innovative method of service delivery for these youth. This article...
