MosaicVillage: A Youth-Informed Platform to Reduce Youth Homelessness Through Collective Impact

MosaicVillage：一个青年知情平台，通过集体影响减少青年无家可归现象

• 批准号: 9904462
• 负责人: Jennifer Joy Cearley
• 金额: $ 26.25万
• 依托单位: IRIS MEDIA, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-20 至 2022-07-19
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9904462
• 关键词: Address; Americas; Collaborations; Communication; Communities; Complex; Data; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Development; Drug abuse; Drug usage; Economics; Elements; Evaluation; Experimental Designs; Family; Focus Groups; Goals; Health; Health behavior; Homeless Youth; Homelessness; Human; Instruction; Legal; Measurement; Measures; Mental Health; Modification; Monitor; Outcome; Performance; Phase; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders; Process; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Readiness; Recommendation; Reporting; Research Personnel; Resources; Risk; Schools; Services; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Software Engineering; Suicide; Technology; Time; Training; Training Support; Trauma; Vertebral column; Visualization software; Vulnerable Populations; Work; Youth; authority; base; data management; data visualization; design; digital; engineering design; experience; improved outcome; interest; peer; product development; programs; prototype; satisfaction; service delivery; service providers; software as a service; software development; tool; tool development; usability

Abstract Youth homelessness is a significant and growing public health problem, with unhoused youth being particularly vulnerable to negative health outcomes. Connecting these youth to services improves outcomes, and many communities are making efforts to do so. Youth homelessness is a complex challenge. Some communities are addressing it by a collective impact approach which relies on five key elements: 1) a common agenda; 2) shared measurement; 3) mutually reinforcing activities; 4) continuous communication and 5) a backbone organization. Collective impact requires communities invest significant time and resources to establish and sustain this powerful approach. The goal for this project is to develop and evaluate a community-based step-by-step technology-enabled solution to help communities implement a collective impact approach to youth homelessness. MosaicVillage: A Youth-Informed Platform to Reduce Youth Homelessness Through Collective Impact will help communities (1) assess youth needs and community readiness to create an action plan and develop a common agenda, (2) implement real-time communication between homeless youth and service providers in the community, (3) facilitate continuous collaboration amongst stakeholders, (4) establish and digitally collect data to monitor performance and outcomes, and (5) visualize and share this information. The long-term goals of MosaicVillage are to reduce negative health outcomes for youth experiencing homelessness and to end youth homelessness. During Phase I, the project team will use human-centered design to develop a minimum viable product (MVP) that contains the Readiness Assessment and Planning Tools and associated training materials to begin collective impact implementation. Specifically, these tools will enable communities to: 1) identify potential stakeholders, 2) assess the specific needs of homeless youth, 3) evaluate the capacity of local service providers to deliver services to them, 4) determine a community’s readiness to undertake a collective impact approach, and 5) create an action plan based upon these initial assessments. The project team will assess the MVP for MosaicVillage to establish the product’s proof of concept and technical feasibility. We will develop the entire MosaicVillage product in Phase II and evaluate its efficacy using a quasi-experimental design with multiple communities where MosaicVillage has not been implemented previously. Specifically, we’ll measure the impact of the full program on the mental health and behaviors of youth experiencing homelessness.

抽象的 青少年无家可归是一个严重且日益严重的公共卫生问题，无家可归的青少年 特别容易受到负面健康结果的影响。将这些年轻人与服务联系起来可以改善结果， 许多社区正在为此做出努力。青少年无家可归是一项复杂的挑战。一些 社区正在通过集体影响方法来解决这个问题，该方法依赖于五个关键要素：1）共同的 议程; 2）共享测量； 3）相辅相成的活动； 4) 持续沟通和 5) 骨干组织。集体影响需要社区投入大量时间和资源 建立并维持这一强有力的方法。 该项目的目标是开发和评估基于社区的逐步技术支持的 帮助社区对青少年无家可归问题实施集体影响方法的解决方案。马赛克村：A 通过集体影响减少青少年无家可归的青年知情平台将帮助社区 (1) 评估青年需求和社区准备情况，以制定行动计划并制定共同议程，(2) 实现无家可归青少年与社区服务提供者之间的实时沟通，(3) 促进利益相关者之间的持续合作，(4) 建立并以数字方式收集数据以进行监控 绩效和结果，(5) 可视化并共享这些信息。 MosaicVillage的长期目标 的目标是减少无家可归青少年的负面健康后果并结束青少年无家可归现象。 在第一阶段，项目团队将采用以人为本的设计来开发最小可行产品 (MVP)，包含准备评估和规划工具以及相关的培训材料 集体影响实施。具体来说，这些工具将使社区能够：1）识别潜在的 利益相关者，2) 评估无家可归青少年的具体需求，3) 评估当地服务的能力 向他们提供服务的提供商，4) 确定社区是否准备好承担集体影响 方法，以及 5) 根据这些初步评估制定行动计划。项目团队将评估 MosaicVillage 的 MVP 旨在建立产品的概念验证和技术可行性。我们将开发 整个 MosaicVillage 产品处于 II 期，并使用准实验设计评估其功效 之前未实施 MosaicVillage 的多个社区。具体来说，我们将测量 整个计划对无家可归青少年的心理健康和行为的影响。