Berkeley Policy Associates is evaluating the Safe Passages youth violence reduction program in Oakland, California. Safe Passages is a multi-level initiative to reduce violence that focuses on both systems change and intervention in youths' lives at key stages of their development. Safe Passages is part of the Urban Health Initiative, a national youth violence reduction program funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The evaluation will examine three specific Safe Passages program initiatives: (1) an early childhood strategy, in which the Second Step violence prevention curriculum which will be implemented in Head Start and other child development programs in Oakland for children under the age of five; (2) a middle school strategy that provides counseling and supports to youth identified as at-risk for violence; and (3) a youth offender strategy that provides case management services to youth offenders when they return home. The evaluation will also assess the extent to which systems change has occurred among key partners in Oakland (including the school district and police department) that is supportive of a long-term reduction in youth violence. Berkeley Policy Associates is partnering with NPC Research to conduct this evaluation.