Preventing violence and racial disparities for Latino youth

产品说明：该项目使用基于社区的预防性研究（CBPR），以解决与拉丁美洲青年之间的暴力暴露有关的健康差距。该提案的一个重要目标是解决预防科学和健康差距研究的重大差距，形成一个学术-社区伙伴关系，重点是预防青年暴力和减少与暴力暴露相关的后续问题结果的发生率，这些结果对拉丁美洲青年构成重大的公共卫生负担。具体目标是：（1）建立强有力的社区-学术伙伴关系，通过研究人员、社区机构和主要社区利益攸关方之间的有效合作、分担责任和公平决策，评估社区在预防暴力方面的需求和优先事项;（2）确定与暴力经历、文化适应压力、歧视和其他相关因素有关的当地条件，以记录在案，强调拉丁裔社区对自身与暴力有关的健康问题及其对儿童和青少年的负面影响的看法;（3）共同主办针对当地情况的会议，以提高社区对与暴力有关的健康差距的认识，传播相关的暴力预防信息，源于目前的研究结果，使用国家和地方数据;和（4）制定和提交合作建议的CBPR干预项目，以减少/防止拉丁美洲青年之间的暴力。为了实现这些目标，我们将建立和加强与学术，社区组织和社区成员现有的合作。合作伙伴和社区利益攸关方已将解决青年暴力问题确定为高度优先事项。我们将建立一个咨询委员会，并让他们参与CBPR培训。我们将合作开展广泛的形成性工作，包括定性访谈和与社区利益相关者的焦点小组，以评估解决青年暴力预防的优先事项和潜在战略。我们将利用摄影声音，一种基于实力的方法，使用相机，让参与者在评估他们的生活和社区中发挥核心作用，以灵活和方便的方式，适合不同年龄组，并进行批判性对话和反思，最终，社区组织社会行动。我们将邀请当地和国家专家通过社区论坛与我们的咨询委员会和广大社区进行知识的相互交流。我们将评估合作进程、效率、赋权和满意度方面的伙伴关系是否成功，并寻求更多资金，用于一个以社区为基础的预防青年暴力的CBPR干预项目。在此过程中发展的社区-学术伙伴关系和基础设施将使我们能够继续合作，解决拉丁青年面临的健康差距。

DESCRIPTION: This project uses Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to address health disparities related to violence exposure among Latino youth. An important objective of the proposal is to address a significant gap in prevention science and health disparities research, by forming an academic-community partnership focused on preventing youth violence and reducing the prevalence of subsequent problem outcomes associated with violence exposure that pose a significant public health burden for Latino youth. The specific aims are to: (1) build a strong community-academic partnership to assess community needs and priorities for violence prevention through effective collaboration, shared responsibility and equity in decision-making among researchers, community agencies, and key community stakeholders; (2) identify local conditions related to experiences of violence, acculturative stress, discrimination, and other related factors to document, and highlight the Latino community's view of its own health problems related to violence and its negative effect on children and adolescents; (3) jointly sponsor meetings that address local conditions in order to heighten the community's awareness of health disparities related to violence exposure, disseminate relevant violence prevention information that stems from current research findings using both national and local data; and (4) develop and submit collaborative proposals for a CBPR intervention project to reduce/prevent violence among Latino youth. To accomplish these aims, we will build upon and strengthen existing collaborations with academic, community-based organizations, and community members. The collaborative partners and community stakeholders have identified addressing youth violence as a high priority. We will develop an advisory board and engage them in CBPR training. We will collaboratively conduct extensive formative work, including qualitative interviews and focus groups with community stakeholders, to assess priorities and potential strategies for addressing youth violence prevention. We will engage youth using photovoice, a strength-based methodology using cameras to allow participants to take a central role in assessment of their lives and communities in a flexible and accessible manner, suitable across age groups, and for the purpose of critical dialogue and reflection, and ultimately, community organization towards social action. We will invite local and national experts to engage in a reciprocal exchange of knowledge with our advisory board and with the community-at-large, through community forums. We will assess the success of the partnership in terms of the collaborative process, efficiency, empowerment, and satisfaction, and seek additional funds for a CBPR intervention project focused on community-based youth violence prevention. The community-academic partnership and infrastructure developed during this process will allow us to continue to collaborate in addressing health disparities facing Latin youth.