Place Matters - Adaptable Solutions to Violence at the Community Level

项目总结/摘要 在冠状病毒之后，美国城市的枪支和家庭暴力都急剧增加 （COVID-19）大流行，包括涉及儿童的枪支暴力和 青年此外，这一流行病大大增加了接触艾滋病毒和艾滋病之间本已很大的差距。 黑人和其他少数民族青年的暴力行为。拟议研究的总体目标是 审查空置和废弃财产补救对暴力的短期和长期影响 在COVID-19大流行之前和期间以及随后的几年中，特别关注如何 空置和被遗弃的财产补救可能会缓冲暴力和心理压力 在大流行期间。尽管预防暴力的证据基础不断扩大， 和家庭暴力，现在有一个前所未有的机会来检查地方的影响- 基于人口的干预措施对大规模杀伤性武器期间和之后的暴力趋势产生了影响， 对城市系统的干扰，其中非常突出的是COVID-19大流行。拟议 这项工作大大增加了我们正在进行的以一级预防为目的的基于地点的随机分组试验 青年和家庭暴力问题（R 01 HD 095609）。通过继续治疗扩大我们的努力 并在更长的时间内（近三年）跟踪我们的试验集群-特别是考虑到 COVID-19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，他们正在启动基于地方的暴力预防方法。这种独特 有机会了解如何通过研究什么来适应和改进这些方法， 在疫情最严重的时期以及随后的几年里， 在未来的大规模事件，如流行病，极端天气， 气候变化，或其他大的扰动，迅速影响整个城市的日常生活， 继续越来越频繁地这样做。

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.