2026

Resource Year Topic Type
Updated Trends in Child Maltreatment, 2024
New national data have been released for 2024, showing a 3% decline in the rate of all substantiated child abuse compared to 2023. Sexual abuse…
 2026 Trends In Child Victimization Bulletin
Trajectories of Persistent Exposure to Self-Harm–Encouraging Websites and Subsequent Mental Health Outcomes in US Youth: Longitudinal Cohort Study
Mitchell KJ, Gewirtz-Meydan A, Banyard V Trajectories of Persistent Exposure to Self-Harm–Encouraging Websites and Subsequent Mental Health Outcomes…
 2026 Self-Directed Violence Paper
What Is Most Helpful? Integrating Gatekeeper and Peer Support Models of Suicide Prevention: Lived Experience Impacts Helping Perceptions
Banyard, V., & Mitchell, K. J. (2026). What Is Most Helpful? Integrating Gatekeeper and Peer Support Models of Suicide Prevention: Lived…
 2026 Self-Directed Violence Paper
Mitchell, K. J., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Jones, L. M., Walsh, W., Colburn, D., & O’Brien, J. E. (2026). Mental health and support profiles among…
 2026 Child Advocacy Centers, Image Abuse/Child Sexual Abuse Materials Paper
2026 VPRC Program Book
Violence Prevention Research Conference 2026 program book
 2026 Program Book
Mitchell, K.J. & Banyard, V. (2026). Beyond risk: Resilience portfolios and youth mental health. BMC Public Health.
 2026 General Child Victimization Paper
Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Mitchell, K. J., Jones, L. M., Turner, H. A., & Finkelhor, D. (2025). Moderators of Mental Health Outcomes Following…
 2026 Technology/Internet Victimization Paper
Colburn, D. & Mitchell, K.J., Taylor, B. (2026). Syndemic pathways linking juvenile delinquency, structural vulnerability, and mental health:…
 2026 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Vicarious Trauma Paper
Mitchell, KJ, O’Brien, J, Gewirtz-Meydan, A, Jones, LM, Colburn, D (2026). Mapping help needs among sexual and gender minority youth at risk for…
 2026 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Paper
Mitchell, K. J., O’Brien, J., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., Colburn, D., & Jones, L. M. (2026). A brief screener to identify youth at risk for commercial…
 2026 Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Paper