JHU Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence

描述（由申请人提供）： 约翰霍普金斯预防青少年暴力中心（JHCPYV）正在申请资金，以实施一项多方面的战略，与公园高地复兴（PHR）公司合作，减少巴尔的摩下公园高地社区的青少年暴力，其他社区组织和居民，巴尔的摩市公立学校，其他服务提供商和政府机构。拟议中的中心包括附属于约翰霍普金斯公共卫生学院、医学院、护理学院、教育学院和艺术与科学学院的教师。JHCPYV采用多部门的公共卫生框架以及发展和生态视角来理解和预防青少年暴力。拟议的一系列干预措施将部署安全街道（停火）干预措施，以向高危青年提供外联服务，调解潜在的暴力冲突，并促进避免暴力的全社区社会规范。这一合作努力将与学校的补充循证方案联系起来，以防止欺凌，促进安全和支持性环境，社会情感学习和积极的青年发展，以防止暴力。我们将培养一种协作伙伴关系，利用中心教师，来自城市机构，社区组织，家长和青年的工作人员的各种专业知识。该中心还建议在另一个社区扩大和加强以学校为基础的服务，这样我们就可以将接受多方面社区和学校干预的社区的结果与只针对学校的结果进行对比，而不接受特别增强的结果。我们将使用各种有关物质和社会环境的数据来源，以确定和补救助长暴力的条件，包括有问题的酒类销售点和废弃的房屋以及积极的社会互动。将从警察和学校记录、中学生调查以及拟议对三个社区的随机抽样青年进行的调查中收集数据，这三个社区的青年暴力基线率同样很高。该中心的总体目标是1）创建和维持一个行政基础设施，以支持实施和评估活动，2）创建，实施和评估一个多方面的，以证据为基础的方法，以预防青年暴力在高风险的巴尔的摩社区，和3）整合培训活动，为早期职业研究人员，教育工作者，从业人员，社区居民，在预防青年暴力方面，教科文组织将继续与青年和青少年合作，以补充青年和青少年联合委员会的执行和评估活动。约翰霍普金斯大学的大量多学科预防研究人员和几个博士前和博士后培训项目为培训和指导早期职业研究人员、研究员、学生和社区成员预防青少年暴力提供了一个良好的环境。 公共卫生相关性：约翰霍普金斯预防青少年暴力中心采用多方面的循证方法来预防青少年暴力，强调以社区为基础的举措和学校举措，传播有关预防的信息，并为研究人员和社区合作者的成功做好准备。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Funding is being requested for the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence (JHCPYV) to implement a multifaceted strategy to reduce youth violence in the Lower Park Heights community of Baltimore in collaboration with the Park Heights Renaissance (PHR), Inc., other community organizations and residents, Baltimore City Public Schools, other service providers and governmental agencies. The proposed center includes faculty affiliated with the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Education, and Arts and Sciences. The JHCPYV employs a multi-sectored, public health framework and developmental and ecological perspectives towards understanding and preventing youth violence. The proposed continuum of interventions will deploy a Safe Streets (CeaseFire) intervention to provide outreach to high-risk youth, mediate potentially violent conflicts, and promote community-wide social norms that eschew violence. This collaborative effort will be linked with complementary evidence-based programs in the schools to prevent bullying, and promote safe and supportive environments, social-emotional learning, and positive youth development in order to prevent violence. We will foster a collaborative partnership which draws upon the varied expertise of Center faculty, staff from city agencies, community-based organizations, parents, and youth. The Center also proposes to expand and enhance school-based services in another community so we can contrast the outcomes in a community receiving a multifaceted community and school intervention with one only targeting schools and one that will not receive special enhancements. We will use a variety of data sources on the physical and social environment to identify and remedy conditions that facilitate violence, including problem alcohol outlets and abandoned houses as well as positive social interactions. Data will be collected from police and school records, surveys of middle-school children, as well as a proposed survey of randomly sampled youth in the three communities with similarly high baseline rates of youth violence. The overall goals of the Center are to 1) Create and sustain an administrative infrastructure to support implementation and evaluation activities, 2) Create, implement, and evaluate a multifaceted, evidence-based approach to youth violence prevention in a high-risk Baltimore community, and 3) Integrate training activities for early career researchers, educators, practitioners, community residents, and youth in youth violence prevention to complement the implementation and evaluation activities of the JHCPYV. The large number of multidisciplinary prevention researchers and several pre- and post-doctoral training programs at Johns Hopkins that address violence prevention provide an outstanding environment to train and mentor early career researchers, fellows, students, and community members in youth violence prevention. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence uses a multifaceted, evidence-based approach to prevent youth violence emphasizing community-based and school initiatives, disseminates information about prevention, and prepares researchers and community collaborators for success.