Preventing violence and racial disparities for Latino youth

描述：该项目采用基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）来解决拉丁裔青年中与暴力暴露有关的健康差异。该提案的一项重要目标是解决预防科学和健康差异研究方面的重大差距，办法是建立一种学术界与社区的伙伴关系，侧重于预防青少年暴力，并减少与暴力接触有关的后续问题的普遍性，这些问题对拉丁裔青年构成重大的公共健康负担。具体目标是：(1)建立强有力的社区-学术伙伴关系，通过研究人员、社区机构和主要社区利益相关者之间的有效合作、分担责任和公平决策，评估社区预防暴力的需求和优先事项；(2)确定与暴力经历、异文化压力、歧视和其他相关因素相关的当地情况，并记录在案，并突出拉丁裔社区对其自身与暴力有关的健康问题及其对儿童和青少年的负面影响的看法；(3)共同主办讨论当地情况的会议，以提高社区对与暴力接触有关的健康差异的认识，传播利用国家和地方数据的当前研究结果得出的有关预防暴力的信息；(4)为减少/预防拉丁裔青年中的暴力行为的CBPR干预项目制定并提交合作提案。为了实现这些目标，我们将建立并加强与学术、社区组织和社区成员的现有合作。合作伙伴和社区利益攸关方已将解决青年暴力问题确定为高度优先事项。我们将建立一个咨询委员会，让他们参与CBPR培训。我们将共同开展广泛的形成性工作，包括与社区利益攸关方进行定性访谈和焦点小组讨论，以评估预防青少年暴力的优先事项和潜在战略。我们将使用photovoice来吸引年轻人，这是一种基于力量的方法，使用相机让参与者以灵活和可访问的方式评估他们的生活和社区，适用于各个年龄组，并以关键对话和反思为目的，最终将社区组织转变为社会行动。我们将邀请地方和国家专家通过社区论坛与我们的咨询委员会和整个社区进行知识交流。我们将从合作进程、效率、赋权和满意度等方面评估伙伴关系的成功，并为侧重于社区预防青少年暴力的CBPR干预项目寻求额外资金。在这一进程中建立的社区学术伙伴关系和基础设施将使我们能够继续合作，解决拉丁青年面临的健康差距问题。

DESCRIPTION: This project uses Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to address health disparities related to violence exposure among Latino youth. An important objective of the proposal is to address a significant gap in prevention science and health disparities research, by forming an academic-community partnership focused on preventing youth violence and reducing the prevalence of subsequent problem outcomes associated with violence exposure that pose a significant public health burden for Latino youth. The specific aims are to: (1) build a strong community-academic partnership to assess community needs and priorities for violence prevention through effective collaboration, shared responsibility and equity in decision-making among researchers, community agencies, and key community stakeholders; (2) identify local conditions related to experiences of violence, acculturative stress, discrimination, and other related factors to document, and highlight the Latino community's view of its own health problems related to violence and its negative effect on children and adolescents; (3) jointly sponsor meetings that address local conditions in order to heighten the community's awareness of health disparities related to violence exposure, disseminate relevant violence prevention information that stems from current research findings using both national and local data; and (4) develop and submit collaborative proposals for a CBPR intervention project to reduce/prevent violence among Latino youth. To accomplish these aims, we will build upon and strengthen existing collaborations with academic, community-based organizations, and community members. The collaborative partners and community stakeholders have identified addressing youth violence as a high priority. We will develop an advisory board and engage them in CBPR training. We will collaboratively conduct extensive formative work, including qualitative interviews and focus groups with community stakeholders, to assess priorities and potential strategies for addressing youth violence prevention. We will engage youth using photovoice, a strength-based methodology using cameras to allow participants to take a central role in assessment of their lives and communities in a flexible and accessible manner, suitable across age groups, and for the purpose of critical dialogue and reflection, and ultimately, community organization towards social action. We will invite local and national experts to engage in a reciprocal exchange of knowledge with our advisory board and with the community-at-large, through community forums. We will assess the success of the partnership in terms of the collaborative process, efficiency, empowerment, and satisfaction, and seek additional funds for a CBPR intervention project focused on community-based youth violence prevention. The community-academic partnership and infrastructure developed during this process will allow us to continue to collaborate in addressing health disparities facing Latin youth.