Evaluation of the Youth-centered Environmental Shift (YES!) Program to reduce sexual violence in middle schools

对以青年为中心的环境转变（YES！）计划的评估，以减少中学性暴力

• 批准号: 10250995
• 负责人: Betty Bekemeier
• 金额: $ 37.43万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-30 至 2025-09-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10250995
• 关键词: Evaluation; Youth; centered; Environmental; Shift

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Sexual violence has overwhelming costs and consequences that necessitate primary prevention solutions. More than 52 million women (43.6%) and 27 million men (24.8%) in the U.S. experience some form of sexual violence in their lifetime including rape, sexual coercion, and/or unwanted sexual contact. Adolescence is a critical time for first experiencing sexual violence, as 40% of women with a history of rape first experienced it before age 18. These experiences have lifelong negative health consequences. Most sexual violence prevention programs have been developed for mid- to late-adolescence or for college students, when sexual violence is most prevalent. Yet, effective interventions to prevent sexual violence among adolescents and before it occurs are rare, lack adequate evidence, are individual-focused, and are resource intensive. Washington State's new Youth-centered Environmental Shift (YES!) program, developed by the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction is based on the best available evidence for preventing sexual violence at the level of a whole school community. The overall goal of YES! is to create a culture within middle schools where students are emotionally and physically safe, supported, and free of abuse, specifically sexual violence. The program is focused on preventing sexual violence before it begins and providing a school-wide program that is effective and scalable to other schools. YES! will be piloted in Washington middle schools in 2020 through collaboration with one Educational Service District in Washington, serving 44 school districts. Through strong partnerships with state agencies and schools, the study we propose will have two main components. First (Component A), we will build system-level capacity to effectively examine the impact of YES! in the three pilot middle schools, establish collaborative systems for collecting sensitive data from students and staff, and assess the feasibility and acceptability of the YES! pilot. Second (Component B), we will expand our evaluation process to more schools to rigorously evaluate whether YES! reduces violence victimization and perpetration, has an impact on the risk and protective factors associated with sexual violence, and if it is feasible for YES! to be sustained and further scaled-up. We will use a practice-based approach that engages education partners and school personnel throughout our study, to improve the success of our approaches, interpretations, study applications, and translation to practice. In this second component we will use a group randomized design, randomly assigning middle schools to initiate the YES! program or proceed with their `usual practice' around sexual violence prevention. This design will be used to rigorously evaluate the impact of YES! on sexual violence outcomes. Data collected through surveys and focus groups of middle school students and staff at multiple points in times over the full five years of this study will support a holistic understanding of whether, why, and how the YES! works with respect to its theory of change. It will also provide critical evidence regarding the effectiveness of school-level strategies to prevent sexual violence and support implementation of broadly adopted sexual violence primary prevention interventions.

项目摘要/摘要 性暴力具有压倒性的代价和后果，有必要采取初级预防办法。更多 在美国，超过5200万女性(43.6%)和2700万男性(24.8%)经历过某种形式的性暴力 包括强奸、性胁迫和/或不想要的性接触。青春期是一个关键时期 第一次经历性暴力，因为40%有强奸史的女性在18岁之前第一次经历过。 这些经历对健康造成了终生的负面影响。大多数性暴力预防项目都有 是为青春期中后期或性暴力最普遍的大学生开发的。 然而，预防青少年性暴力及其发生之前的有效干预措施很少，缺乏。 充分的证据，以个人为重点，是资源密集型的。华盛顿州新的以青年为中心的 环境变化(是的！)计划，由华盛顿公共教育总监办公室开发 是基于在整个学校社区层面上防止性暴力的最佳可用证据。 总体目标是肯定的！是在中学里创造一种文化，让学生在情感上和 身体安全，得到支持，没有虐待，特别是性暴力。该计划的重点是防止 在性暴力开始之前，并提供一个有效的、可扩展到其他人的全校计划 学校。是!将于2020年通过与One Education的合作在华盛顿中学进行试点 华盛顿服务区，为44个学区提供服务。通过与国家机构和 学校方面，我们建议的研究将包括两个主要部分。首先(组件A)，我们将构建系统级 有效检查能力的影响是的！在三所试点中学，建立协作 从学生和教职员工那里收集敏感数据的系统，并评估 是!飞行员。第二(B部分)，我们将把我们的评估程序扩展到更多的学校，进行严格的评估 不管是不是！减少暴力受害和犯罪行为，对风险和保护因素产生影响 与性暴力有关，如果可行的话是的！需要持续和进一步扩大。我们将使用 以实践为基础的方法，在整个研究过程中让教育合作伙伴和学校人员参与，以 改进我们的方法、解释、研究应用和翻译实践的成功。在这 第二部分，我们将采用一组随机设计，随机分配中学来启动 是!方案或继续他们在防止性暴力方面的“惯常做法”。将采用这种设计 要严格评估是的影响！关于性暴力的后果。通过调查和调查收集的数据 在这项研究的整整五年中，在多个时间点对中学生和教职员工进行了重点小组调查 将支持对是否、为什么以及如何是的整体理解！关于它的理论的作品 变化。它还将提供关于学校一级预防战略有效性的关键证据。 性暴力和支持实施广泛采用的性暴力初级预防干预措施。