RFA-CE23-005 Evaluating Economic Security Policies to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence and Injuries among Black Youth

项目摘要 枪支暴力是一个普遍的、可预防的公共卫生问题，对黑人青年的影响不成比例 和年轻人，因为结构性种族主义，其形式是系统性的经济权利剥夺。经济上的 解决经济剥夺权利问题的安全政策，增加经济安全和获得 社会流动的机会是减少黑人中枪支暴力不平等的有希望的方法 年轻人和年轻人。然而，将这些政策作为主要预防措施的研究有限。 关于枪支暴力的战略，关注最有可能遭遇枪支的人口的更少 暴力：黑人青年和年轻人。我们的研究建议使用混合方法的顺序解释 设计和基于社区的参与性研究(CBPR)方法，以收集和分析定量数据 然后是将收集和分析的定性数据，以提供量化结果的背景。这 顺序说明性设计将提供理解的广度(定量)和深度(定性) 经济安全政策对黑人青年经历的枪支暴力不平等的影响 成年人。对于我们的量化目标，我们将使用严格的准实验方法来评估有效性。 经济保障政策(最低工资、劳动所得税抵免、贫困临时援助 家庭和补充营养援助计划)作为枪支的主要预防战略 黑人青年和10-34岁青年中的暴力行为。为了我们的定性目标，我们将进行半 对黑枪伤青少年和10-34岁的年轻人进行结构化定性访谈 慷慨的政策环境和他们的主要照顾者，将我们的量化结果与更多 深入了解这些政策和经济剥夺公民权的生活经验。我们的 研究以重要的方式增加了文献的内容。我们将经济安全政策作为一个社会层面进行评估 使用结构性种族主义视角进行干预，重点关注现有政策是否对小学有效 预防受枪支暴力影响最大的人、黑人青年和青年，以及他们是如何 枪伤的黑人青年和他们的照顾者生活在不那么慷慨的经济环境中 政策环境，以更好地理解潜在的机制。这项研究与暴力预防相一致。 NCIPC通过评估社会层面的战略来确定优先事项，以防止枪支暴力，同时遵循 经济和种族平等的原则。

Project Summary Firearm violence is a pervasive, preventable public health issue that disproportionately impacts Black youth and young adults due to structural racism in the form of systematic economic disenfranchisement. Economic security policies that address economic disenfranchisement by increasing economic security and access to opportunities for social mobility are promising approaches to reduce firearm violence inequities among Black youth and young adults. However, there are limited studies examining these policies as primary prevention strategies for firearm violence, and fewer still that focus on the population most at risk of experiencing firearm violence: Black youth and young adults. Our study proposes utilizing a mixed-methods sequential explanatory design and community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach to collect and analyze quantitative data followed by qualitative data that will be collected and analyzed to provide context to quantitative findings. This sequential explanatory design will provide breadth (quantitative) and depth (qualitative) of understanding of the effects of economic security policies on firearm violence inequities experienced by Black youth and young adults. For our quantitative aim we will use rigorous quasi-experimental methods to evaluate the effectiveness economic security policies (Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) as primary prevention strategies for firearm violence among Black youth and young adults aged 10-34. For our qualitative aim we will conduct semi- structured qualitative interviews with Black firearm injured youth and young adults aged 10-34 living in a less generous policy environment and their primary caregiver to contextualize our quantitative findings with a more in depth understanding of the lived experience of these policies and economic disenfranchisement. Our research adds to the literature in important ways. We evaluate economic security policies as a society-level intervention using a structural racism lens focusing on whether existing policies are effective for primary prevention among those most impacted by firearm violence, Black youth and young adults, and how they are experienced among Black youth with firearm injury and their caregivers living in a less generous economic policy environment to better understand potential mechanisms. This study aligns with violence prevention priorities set by NCIPC by evaluating societal-level strategies to prevent firearm violence while being guided by principles of economic and racial equity.