National Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention: The Denver Community-Level Collaborative

国家青少年暴力预防卓越中心：丹佛社区级合作组织

• 批准号: 10004546
• 负责人: Beverly E. Kingston
• 金额: $ 121.38万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-30 至 2021-09-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10004546
• 关键词: National; Center; Excellence; Youth; Violence

Project Summary Preventing and reducing the risk for youth violence remains a significant challenge for communities across the country. Researchers have consistently called for a coordinated, comprehensive public health response to youth violence, but our nation lacks the prevention infrastructure to put this approach into place – particularly in high-burden urban communities. This project is designed to provide a replicable roadmap for building this infrastructure at the community-level. The Denver Youth Violence Prevention Center (DYVPC) builds from the efforts of our current YVPC, Montbello’s Steps to Success project, which focuses on evaluating a data-driven multi-faceted approach to youth violence prevention. We bring together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and community partners to implement and evaluate a prevention system that delivers community- and policy-level youth violence prevention strategies matched to local need in two high-burden Denver communities. DYVPC activities include: (1) working in collaboration with community partners in two high- burden Denver communities with different levels of readiness to implement Communities That Care (CTC) – an evidence-based, community-level prevention system that provides a data-driven framework for community decision-making. For this project, CTC will focus on the selection and implementation of community-level prevention strategies and policies that best address community needs, values, and resources; (2) enacting a policy change in violence screening through routine health care settings to identify high-risk youth and match them to evidence-based interventions; (3) conducting an implementation process evaluation to measure community readiness and capacity to build a local prevention infrastructure and monitor implementation fidelity of the community-level prevention system; (4) using multiple quasi-experimental designs to evaluate changes in (a) neighborhood social processes and characteristics that may be influenced by the community-level prevention system and selected community- and policy-level prevention strategies and (b) rates of youth violence; (5) developing an implementation roadmap for future replication and scalability both locally and nationally. The sites participating in this study are two high-burden Denver residential neighborhoods, Montbello and Northeast Park Hill, with rates of violent activity and violent behaviors that are significantly greater than the national average. This study will enhance the body of research that focuses on effective community- and policy-level prevention strategies, contribute to understanding the relationship between community readiness/capacity and prevention strategy implementation outcomes, and examine how effective community-level strategies impact neighborhood social processes and conditions. Additionally, this project has the potential to advance understanding of community-level violence prevention efforts through cross-Center collaboration with the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention. The comparability with Chicago will permit examination of the generalizability of the overall project findings to other communities.

项目摘要 预防和降低青少年暴力风险仍然是全世界社区面临的一项重大挑战 国家。研究人员一直呼吁协调、全面的公共卫生应对措施 青少年暴力，但我们国家缺乏预防基础设施来实施这一方法--特别是在 高负担的城市社区。该项目旨在为构建以下内容提供可复制的路线图 社区层面的基础设施。丹佛青少年暴力预防中心(DYVPC) 我们当前的YVPC的努力，Montbello的Steps to Success项目，该项目侧重于评估数据驱动的 采取多方面方法预防青少年暴力。我们聚集了一个多学科的研究团队， 从业者和社区合作伙伴实施和评估预防系统，以提供社区- 在丹佛的两个高负担地区，与当地需求相匹配的政策层面的青少年暴力预防战略 社区。DYVPC活动包括：(1)与社区合作伙伴在两个高 使丹佛社区在实施关怀社区(CTC)方面有不同程度的准备- 基于证据的社区级预防系统，为社区提供数据驱动的框架 决策。对于这一项目，反恐委员会将侧重于社区一级的选择和实施 最能满足社区需求、价值观和资源的预防战略和政策；(2)制定 通过常规卫生保健环境进行暴力筛查的政策变化，以识别高危青年和匹配 对他们进行循证干预；(3)进行实施过程评估，以衡量 社区为建立当地预防基础设施和监测实施保真度做好准备和能力 (4)使用多个准实验设计来评估变化 在(A)社区一级可能影响的社区社会进程和特征 预防系统和选定的社区和政策一级的预防战略和(B)青年比率 暴力；(5)制定实施路线图，以便在当地和 全国范围内。参与这项研究的地点是丹佛的两个高负担住宅区， 蒙贝洛和东北公园山，暴力活动和暴力行为的比率显著 高于全国平均水平。这项研究将加强研究的主体，专注于有效 社区和政策层面的预防战略，有助于理解 社区就绪性/能力和预防战略实施成果，并检查如何有效 社区层面的战略影响着社区的社会进程和条件。此外，这个项目还有 通过跨中心促进对社区一级暴力预防工作的了解的潜力 与芝加哥预防青少年暴力中心合作。与芝加哥的可比性将 允许检查整个项目结果对其他社区的概括性。