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Project Melissa Bright 10/22/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/22/26

Counting and Reviewing Maternal Homicide

Homicide is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the year after. We study how these deaths are counted and reviewed so states can prevent them.

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Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26

Abuse Prevention Education for Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

We are mapping child sexual abuse among New Hanover County youth and studying what helps a community adopt school-based prevention education.

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Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26

School-Based Prevention in New Hanover County, NC

We are mapping child sexual abuse among New Hanover County youth and studying what helps a community adopt school-based prevention education.

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Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/21/26

Measuring Youth Violence Across North Carolina (NCSYEV)

We are surveying 1,200 North Carolina youth ages 13 to 17 to produce a statewide measure of child sexual abuse and other violence, and a blueprint other states can use.

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Project Melissa Bright 10/20/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/20/26

The Bridge: Data Quality for Prevention Education Tracking

We work alongside kNot Today on the Bridge, helping build its data quality systems so its data can support research and surveillance.

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Project Melissa Bright 10/20/26 Project Melissa Bright 10/20/26

Tracking Prevention Education Across Indiana

With kNot Today, we track which Indiana students receive child sexual abuse prevention education, and study whether it reduces abuse across the state.

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Explainer Melissa Bright 9/19/23 Explainer Melissa Bright 9/19/23

What does evidence-based mean?

What does evidence-based really mean?

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