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Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, will be the featured speaker in the university’s Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods seminar series talk on Wednesday, Feb. 12, from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Bioenterprise Building, Room 03A-B...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently appointed Dan Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, to the new School Safety Working Group. The working group was created as part of the new Ohio School Safety Center. The gro...

Designed in response to high exposure rates, new screening measure expected to be implemented nationally One in five children in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, are either exposed to, or are victims of, violence and trauma, according to a new study from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied S...

Several researchers at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Victims and Offenders. Their article, published in October, is titled “Poly-Victimization across Time in Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth Receiving Behavioral He...

Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, spoke on “The Conversationalist” podcast in an episode titled “Raising The Red Flag.” In the episode, Flannery discussed mental health and violence, the preva...

Jane Timmons-Mitchell, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, recently served on a gun violence community forum panel at First Unitarian Church of Cleveland in Shaker Heights, with Partnership for a Safer Cleveland's Mike Walker, who serves on o...

Renne R. Dragomir, research associate and IHBT consultant for the Center for Innovative Practices at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-authored a piece for American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists’ Family Therapy Magazine. The article was titled “Home...

Fredrick Butcher, research assistant professor at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, and Kristen Boyer, research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, penned a piece about how schools should approach the issue of truancy. The...

Karen Coen Flynn, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, and Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center, penned a piece on gun violence. Their article, titled “We Can Change Our Culture of Gun V...

Case Western Reserve University was honored at the Positive Education Program (PEP) Rally 4 Kids annual event on May 15. Multiple centers at the university were recognized for their various contributions to PEP’s work serving children in the community with mental health and behavioral challenges. ...