Empowering Youth to Realize Equity and Prevent Violence: Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver

项目摘要/摘要 青少年暴力对结构边缘化的人来说仍然是一个重大的公共卫生挑战 全国各地的社区。丹佛青少年暴力预防中心(YVPC-D)带来 由研究人员、实践者、社区合作伙伴和青年组成的多学科团队 领导人通过建立证据来促进预防暴力的科学和实践 社区主导的暴力预防战略的基础，以缓解社会和结构上的 影响暴力发生率的条件。这个项目使用了一所青年社区大学 年，在两个负担沉重的社区建立预防暴力基础设施的伙伴关系 丹佛，东北公园山和遥远的东北丹佛。YVPC-D活动包括：(1) 与青年和社区合作伙伴合作，制定、实施和评估三个 创新的暴力预防战略(例如，青年参与的力量 通过旁观者报道和社交媒体的倡议、预防暴力和中断 监督和加强青少年运动和职业发展计划)；(3)开展 对支持能力建设、评估变革的三项战略进行过程评估 机制，并监测执行情况；(4)对所有三个方面进行形成性评估 并对其中两种策略进行了准实验评价；(5)使用中断句 时间序列与差异性设计相结合的影响检验 对青少年暴力发生率的干预。此外，青年团-D将招募和培训青年 来自干预社区和代表不足的群体，在文化上受到尊重 通过青年咨询委员会以及早期职业和初级职业的称职合作者 研究人员计划。这个项目将通过促进我们对 为普遍、有选择和有针对性地预防青少年暴力制定创新战略。 此外，这个项目试图挑战目前单一的规定实践范例 在高负担社区开展基于证据的计划，以创建协作性、实用性和 以文化为基础的预防暴力范例。将制定一项协议，以指导 未来青年--社区--大学的伙伴关系和项目。成功的衡量标准是 减少青年暴力率，增加亲社会机会，并可持续 改进公共卫生做法。

Project Summary/Abstract Youth violence remains a significant public health challenge for structurally marginalized communities across the nation. The Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver (YVPC-D) brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, community partners, and youth leaders to advance the science and practice of violence prevention by building the evidence base for community-led violence prevention strategies that mitigate the social and structural conditions influencing rates of violence. This project uses a youth-community-university partnership to build an infrastructure for violence prevention in two high-burden communities in Denver, Northeast Park Hill and Far Northeast Denver. The YVPC-D activities include: (1) Collaborating with youth and community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate three innovative violence prevention strategies (e.g., The Power of One for Youth Engagement Initiative, Violence Prevention and Interruption through Bystander Reporting and Social Media Monitoring, and Enhancing Youth Athletics and Career Development Programs); (3) Conducting a process evaluation of the three strategies to support capacity building, assess change mechanisms, and monitor implementation; (4) Conduct a formative evaluation on all three strategies and a quasi-experimental evaluation on two of the strategies; (5) Use an interrupted time series and a Difference in Difference design to examine the impacts of the combined interventions on rates of youth violence. Additionally, the YVPC-D will recruit and train youth from the intervention communities and underrepresented groups as respected and culturally competent collaborators through a Youth Advisory Council and an early career and junior researcher program. This project will build the scientific base by advancing our understanding of innovative strategies for universal, selective, and indicated prevention of youth violence. Additionally, this project seeks to challenge the current singular practice paradigm of prescribing evidence-based programs in high-burden neighborhoods to create a collaborative, practical, and culturally informed paradigm for violence prevention. A protocol will be developed that can guide future youth-community-university partnerships and projects. Success will be measured by reductions in rates of youth violence, increases in prosocial opportunities, and sustainable improvements in public health practices.