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.

为了响应RFA-CE-22-005，该提案解决了目标：有效性研究以评估 降低社区暴力和种族/种族入学风险的创新方法 暴力。种族和种族上的青年和青年居住在集中的社区 劣势不成比例承担暴力的负担。利用强大的科学身体 编程（尤其是在国际环境中），并应用交叉镜头，青年暴力可能是 在性别不平等（例如，遵守僵化的男子气概），经济不平等的背景下了解 （例如失业）和种族不平等（例如种族主义和歧视）。慢性，反复接触 早期创伤和广告（包括暴力），基于偏见的歧视的持续经历以及缺乏 经济机会会阻碍儿童的健康发展，并增加两者的可能性 暴力胜利和实施。然而，美国很少有社区驱动的暴力方法 简单地干预性别社会化和不平等的权力动态。明确编程 考虑到这些交叉路口，并支持来自潜水员背景的年轻人来解决基于性别的 结构上的不平等是理论上的，且经验上是新颖的。青年授权干预是 精致和评估，伪造有希望的未来，将结合工作准备的经济正义内容 培训，种族和性别司法内容，来自性别转化节目，领导力建立为 一种新型的多层次暴力预防干预。几乎计划结论，青年将与 就业机会，并鼓励继续参与社会变革工作，脚手架 通过每个社区的社区组织和导师提供。我们将举办一个社区 - 在16个社区中合作的群集随机试验，受结构不平等和高水平的影响 宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡和华盛顿特区和马里兰州都会区的社区暴力行为。目标1意志 与健康检查（对照）相比，评估伪造希望的未来（干预）的有效性（干预） 在14至19岁 武器（主要结果）和多种相关形式的暴力（即身体，性和情感 关系滥用，性暴力，欺凌）。 AIM 2将检查干预的机制 产生影响以及干预前的风险和保护因素中等干预对多个的影响 暴力形式。在RE-AIM框架的指导下，AIM 3将研究实施过程 促进干预可接受性，覆盖范围，整合，忠诚度和参与度以及与之相关的成本 跨社区的干预实施。结果预计将从这种严格的 有效性和实施评估将扩大我们有效干预措施的曲目，以解决 种族，性别和经济不平等，减少青年暴力。