Place Matters - Adaptable Solutions to Violence at the Community Level

项目摘要/摘要 在冠状病毒之后，美国城市的枪支和家庭暴力事件急剧增加 (新冠肺炎)大流行，包括涉及儿童的枪支暴力和#年意外枪支死亡 青春年华。此外，这场大流行极大地扩大了接触艾滋病病毒之间本已很大的差距 针对黑人和其他少数族裔青年的暴力行为。拟议研究的广泛目标是 审查空置和废弃财产补救对暴力的短期和长期影响 在新冠肺炎大流行之前和期间以及随后的几年中，具体重点是如何 空置和废弃的物业修复可能缓解了暴力和心理压力 在大流行期间。尽管有越来越多的证据基础来防止暴力，包括青年 和家庭暴力，现在有一个前所未有的机会来研究这个地方的影响- 以人口为基础的干预措施对大规模暴力期间和之后的暴力趋势产生了影响 对城市系统的扰动，包括非常突出的新冠肺炎大流行。建议数 这项工作大大增加了我们正在进行的旨在初级预防的基于地点的整群随机试验 青年和家庭暴力(R01HD095609)。通过持续治疗扩大我们的努力 并在更长的一段时间内(近三年)跟踪我们的试验组-特别是考虑到 新冠肺炎的影响-将为越来越多的城市提供有价值的新信息 仅仅是新奥尔良，他们正在推出基于地点的暴力预防方法。这个独一无二的 有机会通过学习什么来更多地了解如何适应和改进这些方法 发生在疫情最严重的时候，在接下来的几年里，将独特地推进我们的 了解此类计划在未来大型活动期间的情况，如疫情、极端天气等 气候变化，或其他迅速影响整个城市日常生活的大扰动，并将 继续这样做，而且频率越来越高。

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT Gun and domestic violence have both drastically increased in US cities following the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, including in gun violence involving children and unintentional firearm deaths in youth. Furthermore, the pandemic drastically increased the already wide gap between exposure to violence for Black and other minoritized youth. The broad objective of the proposed research is to examine the short- and long-term impact of vacant and abandoned property remediation on violence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic and in the years that follow, with a specific focus on how vacant and abandoned property remediation may have buffered violence and psychological stress during the pandemic. Although there is a growing evidence-base to prevent violence, including youth and family violence, there is now an unprecedented opportunity to examine the impact that place- based, population-level interventions have had on trends in violence during and following large perturbations to urban systems, including, very prominently, the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed work adds significantly to our ongoing place-based cluster randomized trial aimed at primary prevention of violence among youth and families (R01HD095609). Expanding our efforts by continuing treatment and following our trial clusters for a longer period of time (nearly three years)—especially given the impact of COVID-19—will provide valuable new information for a growing number of cities, beyond simply New Orleans, who are launching place-based approaches to violence prevention. This unique opportunity to learn more about how to adapt and improve such approaches by studying what happened during the height of the pandemic and in the years that follow will uniquely advance our understanding of such programs during future large-scale events such epidemics, extreme weather due to climate change, or other large perturbations that quickly affect the daily lives of entire cities and will continue to do so with increasing frequency.