The VRC just released a new white paper on social media and community violence and UMD’s College of Behavioral and Social Sciences did a nice writeup on it. Our thanks to @progressumd.bsky.social and @everytown.org for supporting this important work.
Read here: bsos.umd.edu/featured-con...
PROGRESS would like to invite you to the 2026 Distinguished Speaker Series Presentation with the outstanding Desmond Upton Patton on Tuesday, February 24th.
🔗 Register at the link here: umd.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
The Shock Trauma Center for Injury Prevention and Policy and the UMB Center for Violence Prevention invite you to a free screening of the documentary Death by Numbers on January 30, 2026.
Register at the link here:
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PROGRESS is hosting a student-led Teach-In for Gun Violence Prevention on December 8th.
For event details, please see the flyer below ⬇️
RSVP at the link here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔗 Read about how UMD researchers helped identify 5 keys to reducing gun violence by 2040 through co-authoring a JAMA report
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Read the report: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Read The Trace story about the report: www.thetrace.org/2025/11/how-...
Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), hosted their 2025 JAMA Summit. PROGRESS Co-Director, Joseph B. Richardson, PhD, contributed to the report, published November 3rd, 2025. This extensive new report focuses on new strategies to reduce firearm violence and harms.
Join us at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Dance Theatre for a film screening of Life After the Gunshot, Ep. 2
Date: Tuesday, November 4, 2025
Time: 7:30pm
Host: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Link: theclarice.umd.edu/events/film-...
Join us at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center's Dance Theatre for a film screening of Life After the Gunshot, Ep. 1
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025
Time: 7:30pm - 8:30pm
Host: The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Link: bsos.umd.edu/event/film-s...
Reps. Foushee, Beyer, Frost Introduce Legislation to Expand Critical Research on Gun Safety and Prevention.
Read more here:
foushee.house.gov/media/press-...
Please click on the video below to view a message from Vice President for Research Patrick O’Shea.
🔗 m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1-3...
UMD's Violence Reduction Center (VRC) is hiring a Deputy Director:
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On August 20th, PROGRESS organized and hosted a visit to the University of Maryland (UMD) by a delegation of youth and mentors associated with Jacob's Ladder Youth Foundation.
Read more about their visit here:
bsos.umd.edu/jacobs-ladde...
The PROGRESS team invites you to become involved in our work. To stay updated on our events, please visit our website.
We look forward to a wonderful and safe fall semester!
— The PROGRESS team
#PROGRESSumd │ Progress@umd.edu │ bsos.umd.edu/academics-re...
This fall semester, PROGRESS priorities include: holding a student-led Teach-In, delivering a Distinguished Speakers series, and conducting research using groundbreaking approaches such as GeoAI.
PROGRESS is a UMD Fearlessly Forward Initiative dedicated to saving lives and empowering communities through innovative technologies, multidisciplinary translational science, and mutually beneficial university-community partnerships to prevent gun violence in all its forms.
A warm welcome to all our fellow Terps returning to campus for the Fall 2025 semester!
We at PROGRESS—Prevent Gun Violence: Research, Empowerment, Strategies & Solutions—invite you to explore our work and join our team.
This event is co-sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, The African American Digital and Experimental Humanities (AADHum) at UMD, The Office of Multicultural Involvement and Community Advocacy (MICA) at UMD, UMD Libraries, and UMD's US Latina/o Studies.
Project STAND is pleased to announce a keynote address featuring distinguished scholar and public intellectual, Dr. Ruha Benjamin. This will take place on September 25th from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm at the Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center.
▶️ Find the link to the tutorial here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=1sS7...
🔗 And the link to the webpage for the Maryland Firearm Data Dashboard here: health.maryland.gov/dataoffice/m...
➡️ The MDH Center for Firearm Violence Prevention and Intervention has a mission of reducing firearm violence, harm, and misuse of firearms in the state by partnering with agencies and affected communities to implement a public health approach to firearm violence reduction.
📊 The Maryland Health Department (MDH) recently hosted a webinar that gave a tutorial on the Maryland Firearm Data Dashboard.
The (T.R.I.G.G.E.R.) Project seeks to denormalize and destigmatize gun violence in communities of color across the nation. Learn more:
wamu.org/story/25/08/...
🔗 Join their webinar on Tuesday, July 29 @ 1:00 PM: joycefdn-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
📊 Info on the impact of the Gun Shop Project in Colorado: injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/earl...
Join Catherine Barber, MPA and Dr. Erin Wright-Kelly, DrPH, MA as they discuss the history of the Gun Shop Project and new findings of the impact of the Gun Shop Project in Colorado.
The Joyce Foundation will be hosting their sixth webinar in a CDC-commissioned series focused on firearms. This webinar will discuss new research on the Gun Shop Project, a set of community-driven suicide prevention partnerships between the firearms community and local mental health professionals.
CDC's Division of Violence Prevention Poster for Cardiff Model
The Cardiff Violence Prevention Model provides a straightforward framework, guidance materials, and a comprehensive toolkit on community violence prevention. Published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Division for Violence Prevention.
