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

项目摘要 预防和减少青年暴力风险仍然是非洲各地社区面临的一项重大挑战。 国家研究人员一直呼吁采取协调、全面的公共卫生应对措施， 青年暴力，但我们的国家缺乏预防基础设施，使这种方法到位-特别是在 负担沉重的城市社区。该项目旨在提供一个可复制的路线图， 社区一级的基础设施。丹佛青少年暴力预防中心（DYVPC）建立在 我们目前的YVPC的努力，Montbello的成功步骤项目，重点是评估数据驱动的 采取多方面的办法预防青年暴力。我们汇集了一个多学科的研究团队， 从业人员和社区合作伙伴，以实施和评估预防系统，提供社区- 和政策层面的青年暴力预防战略，以满足当地的需要，在两个高负担丹佛 社区.该中心的活动包括：（1）与社区伙伴合作， 负担丹佛社区不同程度的准备实施社区照顾（CTC）-一个 基于证据的社区一级预防系统，为社区提供数据驱动的框架 决策的在这个项目中，反恐委员会将侧重于选择和执行社区一级的 预防战略和政策，最好地解决社区的需要，价值观和资源;（2）制定一个 通过常规卫生保健环境进行暴力筛查的政策变化，以确定高危青年并匹配 （3）开展实施过程评估，以衡量 * 社区做好准备并有能力建立地方预防基础设施和监测执行情况的忠实程度 （4）采用多个准实验设计来评估社区预防体系的变化 在（a）邻里社会过程和特点，可能会受到社区层面的影响 （B）青年人的比例 暴力;（5）为未来的本地复制和可扩展性制定实施路线图， 全国范围内。参与这项研究的地点是两个高负担的丹佛居民区， 蒙特贝罗和东北公园山，暴力活动和暴力行为的发生率显着增加， 高于全国平均水平。这项研究将加强注重有效的研究机构， 社区和政策一级的预防战略，有助于了解 社区准备/能力和预防战略执行成果，并审查如何有效地 社区一级的战略影响邻里的社会进程和条件。此外，该项目还 * 通过跨中心工作，提高对社区一级预防暴力工作的认识的潜力 与芝加哥预防青少年暴力中心合作。与芝加哥的可比性 允许审查整个项目的调查结果是否可推广到其他社区。

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.