Safe Spaces: Fostering Equitable Partnership to Prevent Violence

描述（由申请人提供）：家庭暴力是一个重大的公共卫生问题，不成比例地影响黑人社区。包括婴儿死亡在内的不良出生结果在黑人母亲和儿童中也更为常见，它们可能与家庭暴力可能产生的压力和伤害有关。关于家庭暴力根源的信息不足，非常需要更好地了解这些原因，以便制定预防方案。最终，这些计划可以防止严重的伤害和死亡，改善生育结果，个人健康，家庭功能，社区安全和工人生产力。这个名为“安全空间”的项目的目的是在研究人员、社区卫生领域的工作人员和路易斯安那州新奥尔良市一个暴力发生率高、生育结果差的社区的成员之间建立长期的伙伴关系。他们将共同探讨家庭暴力的原因及其与不良生育结果的联系，并将开始制定解决办法。安全空间将由一所大学和一个社区组织共同领导。一个由11名不同背景和技能的人组成的咨询委员会将每季度开会指导该项目。该计划还将举办季度会议，向其他感兴趣的利益相关者开放。咨询委员会和其他利益攸关方将接受如何开展基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）的培训，CBPR是一种结构化的方式，用于记录对社区至关重要的健康问题，并采取行动解决这些问题。牵头组织将与其他参与团体签署协议，正式确定它们将如何共同努力收集社区意见，并在随后制定未来的建议，以测试暴力预防方案。安全空间将以两种方式决定社区的关注和资产。将在目标社区举办一系列论坛，在这些论坛上，人们将讨论他们对家庭暴力的可能原因和解决办法的想法。还将举行几个焦点小组，以进一步探讨社区讨论期间提出的想法。研究人员和社区代表将共同分析收集到的信息，然后他们将通过社区论坛、在线分发和邮件分享结果摘要。安全空间还将举办健康教育和资源博览会，与整个项目中举办的所有社区论坛一起，确保社区居民了解重要的健康问题，以及他们可以做些什么来解决这些问题。在该方案的最后阶段，安全空间合作伙伴将根据讨论和焦点小组确定的社区需求、愿望和优势，制定一项预防暴力方案。合作伙伴将编写并提交资金申请，以实施和测试其计划的有效性。一旦获得资助，合作伙伴将执行该计划，着眼于与其他面临类似挑战的社区分享经验教训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Family violence is a significant public health problem that disproportionately affects Black communities. Poor birth outcomes, including infant deaths, are also much more common among Black mothers and children, and they may be linked to the stress and injury that family violence can produce. There is not enough information on the root causes of family violence, and there is a great need to better understand these causes so that prevention programs can be created. Ultimately, such programs could prevent serious injuries and deaths and improve birth outcomes, individual health, family functioning, community safety, and worker productivity. The purpose of this project, called Safe Spaces, is to create a long-term partnership between researchers, people who work in the community health field and members of a New Orleans, Louisiana community with a high rate of violence and poor birth outcomes. Together they will explore the causes of family violence and its link with poor birth outcomes and will begin to generate solutions. Safe Spaces will be co-led by a university and a community organization. An 11-member advisory board of people with diverse backgrounds and skills will meet quarterly to direct the project. The program will also host quarterly meetings tha will be open to other interested stakeholders. The advisory board and other stakeholders will receive training in how to do community based participatory research (CBPR), which is a structured way to document the health issues that matter to communities and take action to address them. The lead organizations will sign agreements with other participating groups to formalize how they will work together to gather community input and, later, developing future proposals to test violence prevention programs. Safe Spaces will determine community concerns and assets in two ways. A series of forums will be held in the target community during which people will discuss their ideas about possible causes of and solutions to family violence. Several focus groups will also be held to further explore ideas that come up during community discussions. Researchers and community representatives will work together to analyze the information that is gathered, and then they will share a summary of the results through a community forum, online distribution, and mailings. Safe Spaces will also host health education and resource fairs in conjunction with all of the community forums held throughout the project to ensure that neighborhood residents know about important health issues and what they can do address them. During the final phase of the program, Safe Space partners will develop a violence prevention program based on the community needs, desires, and strengths identified during discussions and focus groups. Partners will write and submit a request for funding to implement and test the effectiveness of their program. Once funded, partners will execute the program with an eye toward sharing lessons learned with other communities experiencing similar challenges.