Chicago Public-Private Experimental Partnerships to Reduce Youth Violence

芝加哥公私合作实验伙伴关系减少青少年暴力

• 批准号: 7707064
• 负责人: Jens Ludwig
• 金额: $ 19.5万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-15 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7707064
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support to select, launch, and evaluate randomized pilot interventions to reduce youth violence. These interventions will be conducted as part of a unique collaboration between our University of Chicago-based research team and city government in Chicago. Emphasis is placed on implementing randomized field experiments that change the incentives youth perceive for involvement with pro- as well as anti-social activities, with the hope of preventing youth violence by promoting human capital accumulation and positive youth development. The project has two major goals. First, to combine local resources to field novel interventions that can reduce youth violence; second, to generate useful knowledge to help prevent youth violence in Chicago and elsewhere. To meet these goals we have four main aims: 1. Conduct a design competition to identify and select city agencies, non-profits, or private firms to receive up to $1.5 million in private funding to carry out promising programs in Chicago to prevent youth violence, which will use random assignment to allocate eligible youth to program services. Our research team will work with the office of Mayor Richard M. Daley to raise the resources necessary to implement these interventions from private philanthropists. 2. Provide technical assistance to the selected program administrators to determine adequate sample sizes, carry out randomization, maintain human subject protections, and secure our research team's access to the administrative records and other data required for the evaluation. 3. Conduct a process evaluation of the interventions implemented through this project. 4. Conduct a short-term impact evaluation of the intervention, focusing on measures of youth violence victimization and offending as well as positive outcomes like graduation. At the end of the two-year project period, we hope to have generated new and unusually rigorous scientific evidence about the effects of a specific pilot program to prevent youth violence, and to have developed the infrastructure required to carry out additional randomized interventions in the future in collaboration with city government in Chicago and elsewhere. Because interventions are designed and implemented by existing community organizations and public agencies, the proposed project is well-equipped to provide realistic management and policy guidance to guide future interventions. NIH funding is crucial for enabling our research team to carry out these initial planning and design and subsequent evaluation activities. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Through a unique collaboration between our University of Chicago-based research team and city government in Chicago, this project seeks to identify effective ways of preventing youth violence through implementation and evaluation of randomized experimental interventions. Emphasis will be placed on interventions that try to prevent youth violence by promoting positive youth development and human capital accumulation by at-risk youth.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案请求支持选择、启动和评估随机试点干预措施，以减少青少年暴力。这些干预措施将作为我们芝加哥大学研究团队与芝加哥市政府之间独特合作的一部分进行。重点是实施随机实地实验，改变青少年参与亲社会和反社会活动的动机，希望通过促进人力资本积累和积极的青少年发展来预防青少年暴力。该项目有两个主要目标。首先，结合当地资源采取新颖的干预措施，减少青少年暴力；其次，产生有用的知识，帮助防止芝加哥和其他地方的青少年暴力。为了实现这些目标，我们有四个主要目标： 1. 举办设计竞赛，以确定和选择城市机构、非营利组织或私营公司，以获得最多 150 万美元的私人资金，在芝加哥开展有前途的预防青少年暴力项目，该项目将使用随机分配的方式将符合条件的青少年分配给项目服务。我们的研究团队将与理查德·戴利市长办公室合作，向私人慈善家筹集实施这些干预措施所需的资源。 2. 向选定的项目管理员提供技术援助，以确定足够的样本量，进行随机化，维护受试者保护，并确保我们的研究团队能够访问评估所需的管理记录和其他数据。 3. 对通过该项目实施的干预措施进行过程评估。 4. 对干预措施进行短期影响评估，重点关注青少年暴力受害和犯罪的措施以及毕业等积极成果。在两年的项目期结束时，我们希望能够就预防青少年暴力的特定试点计划的效果产生新的、异常严格的科学证据，并与芝加哥和其他地方的市政府合作，开发未来开展额外随机干预措施所需的基础设施。由于干预措施是由现有社区组织和公共机构设计和实施的，因此拟议项目完全可以提供现实的管理和政策指导，以指导未来的干预措施。 NIH 的资金对于我们的研究团队能够开展这些初步规划和设计以及后续评估活动至关重要。公共卫生相关性：通过我们芝加哥大学研究团队与芝加哥市政府之间的独特合作，该项目旨在通过实施和评估随机实验干预措施来确定预防青少年暴力的有效方法。重点将放在通过促进青年积极发展和高危青年人力资本积累来试图预防青年暴力的干预措施上。