Youth Participatory Action Research to Prevent Community Violence among Black youth

项目摘要 反黑人种族主义通过以下方式在黑人青年中造成不成比例的社区暴力暴露 结构性暴力，包括居住隔离、集中贫困和有限的受教育机会和 就业机会。这种结构性暴力造成了一种累积的集体创伤体验 这表现为种族创伤。虽然研究人员呼吁用新的方法来解决暴力问题- 关于种族创伤的相关后果，目前的许多暴力预防做法都没有明确解决 这是造成社区暴力不平等的根本原因。促进个人发展的多层次方法 需要集体治愈过程，并认识到社区是一种资产和变革的推动者。我们 将继续我们以社区为基础的参与性研究(CBPR)方法来解决社区暴力问题 通过实施和评估多层次干预的不平等，赋予青年健康倡导权 (是的)，旨在促进个人和集体康复进程，以降低社区暴力的风险 在12-17岁的黑人青年中。YEA通过确定影响青少年健康的因素来引导年轻人 使用PhotoVoice的社区，这是一种参与式研究方法，使用摄影来检查 社区关注的问题，产生解决这些问题的想法，并将这些想法转化为社会行动。基于 我们的形成性CBPR专注于社区暴力，我们已经对其进行了调整，包括了战略性的讲故事 通过戏剧艺术作为反种族主义的社区暴力预防策略。我们将对效果进行评估。 关于青少年亲社会行为和攻击性行为，评估种族认同和未来取向 预防效果的中介者，并探索潜在的社区一级结果，包括男孩和女孩俱乐部 招生和社区青年的批判意识以及政治和公民意识。这个项目 通过评估多层次战略的有效性，与NCIPC设定的暴力预防优先事项保持一致 这降低了不同形式的青少年暴力的可能性。

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.