Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请详细介绍了一项计划，该计划通过研究人员以及信仰和社区领袖联盟的合作，在目前资助的芝加哥青少年暴力预防中心（U01 CE001949-05）的基础上建立并扩展其工作，以支持社区发起的努力，以减少芝加哥目标高风险社区内的青少年犯罪和暴力。借鉴目前资助的中心的成功经验和经验教训，本申请中提出的方法的重点是从研究单个社区内实施的一系列预防干预措施的个人和集体影响转向实施和评估社区级预防系统。此外，根据这组调查人员之前的工作，来自伊利诺伊州暴力死亡报告系统的数据和从城市数据档案收集的行政数据将用于评估目前在目标社区和芝加哥其他高负担社区实施的政策级预防策略。这些数据还将用于进行一系列研究，为减少和预防青少年暴力和其他形式暴力的政策提供信息。这些活动的组合旨在弥补该领域的关键差距，并为有效的社区和政策层面的预防战略建立证据基础，以实现社区层面对青年和其他形式暴力的影响。该中心的主要目标是： 1) 建立社区、政策和学术合作伙伴联盟，以解决芝加哥社区内的青年问题和其他形式的暴力问题； 2) 评估在高风险城市社区实施社区级预防系统（关怀社区）的过程和影响，并确定在城市社区实施所需的独特挑战和适应措施； 3) 评估 CTC 对邻里社会组织和过程（即集体效能、社会组织、联系和支持、规范和对暴力的态度）的传播和影响，以及根据经验与青少年和其他形式的暴力相关的过程； 4) 评估并通报旨在减少青少年暴力和其他形式暴力的现行政策战略； 5) 提供培训和技术援助，以建设学校和社区机构选择和实施循证干预措施并评估社区内现有干预措施的能力； 6) 在区域和全国范围内向科学界、实践界和政策界传播实证研究结果。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application details a plan to build from and expand the work of the currently funded Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention (U01 CE001949-05) through the collaboration of researchers and a coalition of faith and community leaders to support a community initiated effort to reduce youth crime and violence within a target high-risk community in Chicago. Building from both the success and lessons learned from the currently funded Center, the focus of the approach proposed in this application is to move from the study of the individual and collective impact of a set of preventive interventions delivered within a single community to the implementation and evaluation of a community-level prevention system. In addition, building from previous work of this group of investigators, data from the Illinois Violent Death Reporting System and administrative data gathered from city data archives will be used to evaluate policy-level prevention strategies that are currently being implemented in the target and other high burden communities in Chicago. These data will also be used to conduct a series of studies to inform policies to reduce and prevent youth and other forms of violence. This combination of activities is designed to address critical gaps in the field and buil the evidence-base regarding effective community and policy-level prevention strategies to achieve community-level impact on youth and other forms of violence. The Center's primary aims are: 1) to build a coalition of community, policy and academic partners to address the issues of youth and other forms of violence within Chicago neighborhoods; 2) to evaluate the process and impact of implementing a community-level prevention system (Communities that Care) in a high-risk urban community and to identify unique challenges and adaptations necessary for implementation in urban neighborhoods; 3) to evaluate the diffusion and impact of CTC on neighborhood social organization and processes (i.e., collective efficacy, social organization, connection and support, norms and attitudes toward violence), processes that have been empirically linked with youth and other forms of violence; 4) to evaluate and inform current policy strategies aimed at reducing youth and other forms of violence; 5) to provide training and technical assistance to build capacity for schools and community agencies to select and implement evidence-based interventions and to evaluate existing interventions within the community; and 6) to disseminate empirical findings regionally and nationally to scientific, practice and policy communities.