Empowering Youth to Realize Equity and Prevent Violence: Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver

项目总结/摘要 青年暴力仍然是结构性边缘化群体面临的重大公共卫生挑战。 全国各地的社区。丹佛青年暴力预防中心（YVPC-D） 由研究人员、从业人员、社区合作伙伴和青年组成的多学科团队 领导人通过建立证据，推动预防暴力的科学和实践 为社区主导的预防暴力战略奠定基础， 影响暴力发生率的条件。这个项目使用一个青年社区大学 * 建立伙伴关系，在两个高负担社区建立预防暴力的基础设施， 丹佛，东北公园山和远东北丹佛。青年志愿者发展方案的活动包括：（1） 与青年和社区合作伙伴合作，制定、实施和评估三个 创新的暴力预防战略（例如，一个人对青年参与的力量 通过旁观者报告和社交媒体预防和制止暴力 监测和加强青年体育和职业发展计划）;（3）进行 对支持能力建设、评估变革、 （4）对所有三个机制进行初步评估 策略和对其中两种策略的准实验评价;（5）使用中断式 时间序列和差异中的差异设计，以检查组合的影响 对青年暴力发生率的干预。此外，YVPC-D将招募和培训青年 从干预社区和代表性不足的群体， 通过青年咨询理事会和早期职业生涯和初级 研究员计划。该项目将通过推进我们对以下问题的理解来建立科学基础 普遍、有选择和有针对性地预防青年暴力的创新战略。 此外，该项目旨在挑战目前单一的处方实践范式 在高负担社区开展以证据为基础的项目，以建立一个协作的、实用的、 文化上知情的预防暴力范例。将制定一项协议， 未来的青年-社区-大学伙伴关系和项目。成功的衡量标准是 减少青年暴力率，增加亲社会机会， 改善公共卫生做法。

Project Summary/Abstract Youth violence remains a significant public health challenge for structurally marginalized communities across the nation. The Youth Violence Prevention Center-Denver (YVPC-D) brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, community partners, and youth leaders to advance the science and practice of violence prevention by building the evidence base for community-led violence prevention strategies that mitigate the social and structural conditions influencing rates of violence. This project uses a youth-community-university partnership to build an infrastructure for violence prevention in two high-burden communities in Denver, Northeast Park Hill and Far Northeast Denver. The YVPC-D activities include: (1) Collaborating with youth and community partners to develop, implement, and evaluate three innovative violence prevention strategies (e.g., The Power of One for Youth Engagement Initiative, Violence Prevention and Interruption through Bystander Reporting and Social Media Monitoring, and Enhancing Youth Athletics and Career Development Programs); (3) Conducting a process evaluation of the three strategies to support capacity building, assess change mechanisms, and monitor implementation; (4) Conduct a formative evaluation on all three strategies and a quasi-experimental evaluation on two of the strategies; (5) Use an interrupted time series and a Difference in Difference design to examine the impacts of the combined interventions on rates of youth violence. Additionally, the YVPC-D will recruit and train youth from the intervention communities and underrepresented groups as respected and culturally competent collaborators through a Youth Advisory Council and an early career and junior researcher program. This project will build the scientific base by advancing our understanding of innovative strategies for universal, selective, and indicated prevention of youth violence. Additionally, this project seeks to challenge the current singular practice paradigm of prescribing evidence-based programs in high-burden neighborhoods to create a collaborative, practical, and culturally informed paradigm for violence prevention. A protocol will be developed that can guide future youth-community-university partnerships and projects. Success will be measured by reductions in rates of youth violence, increases in prosocial opportunities, and sustainable improvements in public health practices.