Youth Participatory Action Research to Prevent Community Violence among Black youth

预防黑人青年社区暴力的青年参与行动研究

• 批准号: 10770095
• 负责人: Briana Woods-Jaeger
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: EMORY UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-30 至 2026-09-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10770095
• 关键词: Youth; Participatory; Action; Research; Prevent

PROJECT ABSTRACT Anti-Black racism contributes to disproportionate community violence exposure among Black youth through structural violence including residential segregation, concentrated poverty, and limited access to education and employment opportunities. This structural violence creates a cumulative and collective experience of trauma that manifests as racial trauma. While researchers have called for novel methods to address the violence- related consequences of racial trauma, many current violence prevention practices do not explicitly address this fundamental contributor to community violence inequities. Multilevel approaches that promote individual and collective healing processes and recognize community as an asset and agent of change are needed. We will continue our community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to addressing community violence inequities by implementing and evaluating a multilevel intervention, Youth Empowered Advocating for Health (YEAH), designed to promote individual and collective healing processes to reduce risk for community violence among Black youth ages 12-17. YEAH guides youth through identifying factors that influence health in their community using photovoice, a participatory research methodology that uses photography to examine community concerns, generate ideas to address them, and translate those ideas into social action. Based on our formative CBPR focused on community violence we have adapted YEAH to include strategic storytelling through theater arts as anti-racist community violence prevention strategy. We will evaluate the effectiveness of YEAH on youth prosocial behavior and aggressive behavior, assess racial identity and future orientation as mediators of prevention effects, and explore potential community-level outcomes including Boys and Girls Club enrollment and community youth critical consciousnesses and political and civic mindedness. This project aligns with violence prevention priorities set by NCIPC by evaluating the effectiveness of multi-level strategies that reduce the likelihood of different forms of youth violence.

项目摘要 反黑人种族主义通过 结构性暴力行为，包括住宅种族隔离，集中贫困以及受教育的机会有限和 就业机会。这种结构性暴力创造了创伤的累积和集体经验 这表现为种族创伤。研究人员呼吁采用新的方法来解决暴力 - 种族创伤的相关后果，许多当前的暴力预防实践并未明确解决 这对社区暴力不平等的基本贡献。促进个人的多级方法 需要集体康复过程，并认识到社区是变革的资产和推动者。我们 将继续我们基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）来解决社区暴力 不平等通过实施和评估多层次干预，青年授权倡导健康 （是的），旨在促进个人和集体康复过程，以降低社区暴力的风险 在12-17岁的黑人青年中。是的，指导年轻人确定影响健康的因素 社区使用Photovoice，这是一种使用摄影检查的参与性研究方法论 社区关注，产生思想来解决这些问题，并将这些思想转化为社会行动。基于 我们形成的CBPR专注于社区暴力，我们已经适应了，包括战略性讲故事 通过戏剧艺术作为反种族主义社区暴力预防策略。我们将评估有效性 是关于青年亲社会行为和攻击性行为的YEAS，将种族认同和未来取向评估为 预防效果的调解人，并探索包括男孩和女孩俱乐部在内的潜在社区水平成果 入学和社区青年批判意识以及政治和公民思想。这个项目 通过评估多层策略的有效性，与NCIPC设定的暴力预防优先级保持一致 这减少了不同形式的青年暴力的可能性。