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.

作为对 RFA-CE-22-005 的回应，该提案涉及目标一：评估有效性研究 减少社区暴力和种族/族裔不平等风险的创新方法 不同种族和族裔的青少年以及居住在暴力集中社区的青少年。 弱势群体不成比例地承受着暴力的负担。 规划（特别是在国际环境中）并运用交叉视角，可以 在性别不平等（例如，遵守严格的男性气质规范）、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）。 早期创伤和逆境（包括暴力）、持续遭受基于偏见的歧视以及缺乏 经济机会的减少会阻碍儿童的健康发展并增加两者的可能性 然而，在美国，很少有社区驱动的暴力行为方法能够解决暴力受害和犯罪问题。 同时对性别社会化和不平等的权力动态进行明确的干预。 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 和结构性不平等在理论上和经验上都是新颖的。 精炼和评估的《锻造希望的未来》将结合就业准备中的经济正义内容 培训、性别变革规划中的种族和性别公正内容以及领导力建设 一项新颖的多层次暴力预防干预措施即将结束时，青年将与 提供就业机会，并鼓励继续参与社会变革努力，并提供脚手架 通过每个社区的社区组织和导师提供我们将开展社区活动。 在 16 个受结构性不平等和高水平影响的社区中进行了合作整群随机试验 目标 1 将打击宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡以及华盛顿特区和马里兰州都会地区的社区暴力。 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 岁的青少年中，减少自我报告的肢体冲突和威胁/伤害行为 武器（主要结果）和多种相关形式的暴力（即身体、性和情感暴力） 目标 2 将研究干预机制。 产生影响以及干预前风险和保护因素如何调节干预对多种因素的影响 在 RE-AIM 框架的指导下，目标 3 将审查实施过程： 促进干预措施的可接受性、影响范围、整合性、忠诚度和参与度以及相关成本 跨社区的干预实施预计会产生这种严格的结果。 有效性和实施评估将扩大我们有效干预措施的范围，以解决 种族、性别和经济不平等并减少青少年暴力。