Forging Hopeful Futures: A Racial and Gender-Justice Program to Reduce Youth Violence

打造充满希望的未来：减少青少年暴力的种族和性别正义计划

• 批准号: 10584720
• 负责人: Alison J. Culyba
• 金额: $ 39.99万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-30 至 2025-09-29
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10584720
• 关键词: Forging; Hopeful; Futures; Racial; Gender

In response to RFA-CE-22-005, this proposal addresses Objective One: Effectiveness research to evaluate innovative approaches to reducing community violence and racial/ethnic inequities in risk for community violence. Racially and ethnically diverse youth and youth residing in neighborhoods with concentrated disadvantage disproportionately bear the burden of violence. Drawing upon a robust body of scholarship and programming (especially in international settings), and applying an intersectional lens, youth violence can be understood in the context of gender inequities (e.g., adherence to rigid masculinity norms), economic inequities (e.g., unemployment), and race inequities (e.g., racism and discrimination). Chronic, repeated exposure to early trauma and adversity (including violence), persistent experiences of bias-based discrimination, and lack of economic opportunities can impede children’s healthy development and increase the likelihood of both violence victimization and perpetration. Yet few community-driven approaches to violence in the US seek to simultaneously intervene on gender socialization and unequal power dynamics. Programming that explicitly takes into account these intersections and supports youth from diverse backgrounds to address gender-based and structural inequities is both theoretically and empirically novel. The youth empowerment intervention to be refined and evaluated, Forging Hopeful Futures, will combine economic justice content from job readiness training, racial and gender justice content from gender-transformative programming, and leadership building as a novel multi-level violence prevention intervention. Near program conclusion, youth will be connected with employment opportunities and encouraged to continue participation in social change efforts, with scaffolding offered through community organizations and mentors in each neighborhood. We will conduct a community- partnered cluster randomized trial in 16 neighborhoods impacted by structural inequities and high levels of community violence in Pittsburgh, PA and urban Washington D.C. and Maryland metro areas. Aim 1 will evaluate effectiveness of Forging Hopeful Futures (intervention) compared to wellness check-ins (control) among 14- to 19-year-old youth to decrease self-reported use of physical fighting and threat/injury with a weapon (primary outcome) and multiple related forms of violence (i.e., physical, sexual, and emotional relationship abuse, sexual violence, bullying). Aim 2 will examine mechanisms through which the intervention creates impact and how pre-intervention risk and protective factors moderate intervention effects on multiple forms of violence. Guided by the RE-AIM framework, Aim 3 will examine implementation processes that facilitate intervention acceptability, reach, integration, fidelity, and engagement as well as costs associated with intervention implementation across neighborhoods. Results expected to emerge from this rigorous effectiveness and implementation evaluation will expand our repertoire of effective interventions to address racial, and gender, and economic inequities and reduce youth violence.

为响应RFA-CE-22-005，本提案针对目标一：进行有效性研究以评估 减少社区暴力和社区风险中的种族/族裔不平等的创新方法 暴力。种族和民族多样化的青年和居住在人口集中的社区的青年 弱势群体不成比例地背负着暴力的负担。依靠强大的学术机构和 编制方案(特别是在国际环境中)，并采用交叉镜头，青年暴力可以 在性别不平等(例如，遵守严格的男子气概规范)、经济不平等的背景下理解 (例如，失业)和种族不平等(例如，种族主义和歧视)。长期、反复地暴露于 早期创伤和逆境(包括暴力)、长期遭受基于偏见的歧视和缺乏 经济机会的缺乏会阻碍儿童的健康发展，并增加这两种情况的可能性 暴力、受害和犯罪。然而，在美国，很少有社区驱动的暴力方法寻求 同时干预性别社会化和不平等的权力动态。编程明确表示 考虑到这些交叉点，并支持来自不同背景的青年解决基于性别的问题 结构性不平等在理论上和经验上都是新奇的。青年赋权干预将是 精炼和评估，打造充满希望的未来，将结合就业准备中的经济正义内容 培训、促进性别平等方案的种族和性别公正内容，以及领导力建设 一种新型的多层次暴力预防干预。节目接近尾声，青年将与 提供就业机会，并鼓励继续参与社会变革努力，搭建脚手架 通过社区组织和每个社区的导师提供。我们将组织一个社区- 在16个受结构性不平等和高水平 宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡以及华盛顿和马里兰州大都市区的社区暴力事件。目标1将 评估锻造希望未来(干预)与健康检查(对照)的有效性 在14至19岁的年轻人中，减少自我报告的身体打斗和威胁/伤害的使用 武器(主要结果)和多种相关的暴力形式(即，身体、性和情感 关系虐待、性暴力、欺凌)。目标2将审查干预所通过的机制 产生影响，以及干预前风险和保护因素如何调节干预对多个 各种形式的暴力。在RE-AIM框架的指导下，AIM 3将审查以下实施过程 促进干预的可接受性、覆盖范围、集成度、保真度和参与度，以及与以下各项相关的成本 社区干预措施的实施。预计结果将从这一严格的 有效性和执行情况评估将扩大我们有效干预措施的范围，以解决 消除种族、性别和经济不平等现象，减少青年暴力。