Evaluation of Violence Prevention Strategies to Prevent and Reduce Community Levels of Youth Violence

Launched by VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · Dec 18, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This project focuses on three communities in Richmond selected based on US Census Bureau block groups and their high rates of youth violence and concentrated poverty. The community-level effects of implementing the comprehensive community-level approach will be evaluated using a multiple baseline design. The three communities were randomly assigned such that the intervention would begin in one community starting in the fourth quarter of Year 1, a second community in the fourth quarter of Year 2, and the third community will represent a no-intervention control community receiving training an...

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Eligibility criteria

• PAR-SEED Method:
• Inclusion criteria:
• • Community residents, youth aged 12-17 and parents, living in one of the intervention communities (Community A and Community B)
• • Stakeholders who reside or work in one of the intervention communities (Community A and Community B) or who contribute other expertise
• • Be able to consent/assent
• Exlcusion criteria:
• • Those who do not meet the inclusion criteria
• • Those with limited English proficiency
• Emerging Leaders:
• Inclusion criteria:
• • Violently injured or high-risk youth that have either received or are receiving treatment or had a family member or relative receive treatment at VCU Health, or who live in one of the intervention communities, or have been referred by a community partner.
• • Aged 14 through 24
• • Reside in one of the two intervention communities (Community A and Community B) or in the control community (Community C)
• • Be able to consent/assent
• Exclusion criteria:
• • Youth younger than 14 and older than 24 will be excluded.
• • Prisoners will be excluded.
• • Those living outside our community boundaries will be excluded.
• PAR/Youth Voices:
• Inclusion criteria:
• • Youth in grades 9 through 12
• • Reside in one of the intervention communities (Community A and Community B) and attend the designated high school(s) serving that community (Community A or Community B)
• • Be able to consent/assent
• Exclusion criteria:
• • Youth in grades below 9th
• • Youth who have graduated from high school
• • Youth recruited for School A, cannot reside in the catchment areas for Communities B or C. Youth recruited for School B, cannot reside in the catchment areas for Communities A or C. Youth recruited for School C, cannot reside in the catchment areas for Communities A or B.