Testing a Multilevel Preventive Intervention in Youth Courts

在青少年法庭测试多层次预防性干预措施

• 批准号: 8921161
• 负责人: Christopher Williams
• 金额: $ 14.78万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL HEALTH PROMOTION ASSOCIATES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-15 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8921161
• 关键词: Adolescent; Adopted; Adult; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Attitude; Behavior; Communities; Consent; Country; Data; Development; Discipline; District of Columbia; Drug abuse; Educational Intervention; Educational process of instructing; Educational workshop; Ensure; Family; Feasibility Studies; Feedback; Funding; Goals; Guidelines; Health; Incentives; Individual; Intervention; Interview; Justice; Knowledge; Learning; Legal; Life; Mediator of activation protein; Methods; Modeling; Participant; Peer Group; Performance; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Population; Preparation; Prevention approach; Prevention program; Prevention trial; Preventive Intervention; Procedures; Process; Provider; Public Health; Punishment; Randomized; Randomized Controlled Trials; Request for Proposals; Research; Risk; Sampling; Schools; Self Management; Services; Staff Development; Surveys; System; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; Violence; Youth; adolescent drug abuse; adverse outcome; base; community setting; court; design; dosage; drug abuse prevention; effectiveness trial; efficacy testing; efficacy trial; evidence base; follow-up; improved; individualized medicine; informant; intervention effect; juvenile justice system; meetings; multi-component intervention; offender; peer; programs; psychosocial development; recidivism; reduced substance use; resilience; response; skills; skills training; social; social attachment; social skills; staff intervention; substance use prevention; violence prevention; volunteer; young adult

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescents in underserved, urban communities are disproportionately involved in the juvenile justice system. Youth involvement in the court system is a serious public health concern. In recent years, juvenile justice professionals have begun to supplement traditional efforts aimed at discipline and punishment with an asset- based perspective referred to as "positive youth justice" (PYJ). The PYJ approach encourages young court participants to build upon their existing strengths, while learning and mastering new life skills, through development of pro-social relationships within their peer groups, families, and communities. These "core assets" are posited to promote the successful entry into young adulthood. The proposed research application is being submitted in response to PA-12-171 "Pilot and Feasibility Studies in Preparation for Drug Abuse Prevention Trials." This proposal requests funding to adapt and test a multi-level intervention for the youth court setting, which wil have strong potential to reduce substance use and delinquency while promoting a successful and healthy transition into young adulthood for first-time offenders. [The initial component of the project will involve interviewing program directors from a representative sample of youth courts throughout the US with the purpose of gaining formative feedback about logistical and programming needs. The second component of the proposed research is designed to promote system-level change and consists of a feasibility trial of a staff development training for youth court service providers. The workshop will focus on the concepts and practical guidelines of the PYJ model and will train providers to promote pro-social attachment and community involvement for youth participants.] The third component is designed to enhance individual-level skills among youth and consists of an adaptation of the Life Skills Training (LST) program, which is strongly aligned with the PYJ model and teaches personal self- management skills, social skills, drug refusal skills, and other life skills needed to successfully navigate developmental tasks, increase resilience, and facilitate healthy psychosocial development. Some youth courts have already independently adopted LST, suggesting that it meets a perceived need and is feasible in this setting. However, LST has never been rigorously tested in the youth court setting. We will conduct a randomized efficacy trial of LST in the Youth Court of the District of Columbia (YCDC), the largest youth court in the nation. We will test for efficacy o the proposed youth intervention using quantitative data gathered through a multi-informant approach. The staff training will be evaluated using qualitative and quantitative methods. By intervening with both youth court participants and staff, the proposed multi-level intervention can have a broad impact on risk and protective factors at multiple levels of influence. The proposed intervention components will be developed in preparation for a subsequent randomized controlled trial of the combined intervention in the over 1,200 youth peer court systems across the country.

描述（由申请人提供）：服务不足的城市社区的青少年不成比例地参与少年司法系统。青少年参与法院系统是一个严重的公共卫生问题。近年来，少年司法专业人员已开始用一种基于资产的观点，即“积极的青年司法”，来补充旨在惩戒和惩罚的传统努力。毅进计划鼓励青少年法庭参与者发挥本身的长处，同时透过与朋辈、家庭及社区建立亲社会的关系，学习及掌握新的生活技能。这些“核心资产”被用来促进成功进入青年期。提交拟议的研究申请是为了响应PA-12-171“药物滥用预防试验准备中的试点和可行性研究”。“这项提案要求提供资金，以适应和测试青年法庭环境的多层次干预措施，这将有很大的潜力减少药物使用和犯罪，同时促进初犯者成功和健康地过渡到青年时期。[The的初始组件 该项目将涉及采访来自美国各地青年法庭的代表性样本的项目主任，目的是获得有关后勤和规划需求的形成性反馈。拟议研究的第二个组成部分旨在促进系统一级的变革，包括对青年法庭服务提供者进行工作人员发展培训的可行性试验。工作坊将集中讨论毅进计划模式的概念和实务指引，并会培训服务提供者，以促进青少年参与者对社会的归属感和社区参与。]第三个组成部分旨在提高青年人的个人技能，包括对生活技能培训方案的调整，该方案与PYJ模式高度一致，教授个人自我管理技能、社交技能、拒绝毒品技能以及成功完成发展任务、提高复原力和促进健康的心理社会发展所需的其他生活技能。一些青少年法庭已经独立地采用了学习型测验，这表明学习型测验满足了人们的需求，在这种情况下是可行的。然而，LST从未在青年法庭环境中进行过严格的测试。我们将在全国最大的青年法庭--哥伦比亚哥伦比亚特区青年法庭（YCDC）进行一项LST的随机疗效试验。我们将使用通过多信息提供者方法收集的定量数据来测试拟议的青年干预措施的有效性。将采用定性和定量方法对员工培训进行评估。通过对青年法庭参与者和工作人员进行干预，拟议的多层次干预可以 在多个影响层面上对风险和保护因素产生广泛影响。将制定拟议的干预组成部分，为随后在全国1 200多个青年同侪法院系统进行的联合干预的随机对照试验做准备。