Forging Hopeful Futures: A Racial and Gender-Justice Program to Reduce Youth Violence
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 542
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Change in recent violence perpetration at 3 months
研究概览
简要总结
This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a racial-, gender-, and economic-justice focused youth violence prevention program called Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19.
详细描述
This 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 will evaluate effectiveness of Forging Hopeful Futures with youth ages 13-19. Forging Hopeful Futures combines 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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 13 Years 至 19 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Participants must be ages 13-19 (inclusive)
- •Participants must speak English
- •Participants must live in the participating neighborhoods, attend schools in the participating neighborhoods, or use participating facilities
- •Participants must be able to provide follow up contact information
排除标准
- •Not ages 13 -19 (inclusive)
- •Do not speak English
- •Do not live in the participating neighborhoods, attend schools in the participating neighborhoods, or use participating facilities
- •Unable to provide follow up contact information
研究组 & 干预措施
Wellness Check-ins
Youth in neighborhoods randomized to the control group will receive individual wellness checks. This will occur through a strengths-based telephone conversation focused on wellness resources. Youth will be provided with tailored resources based on needs identified during the call. Youth will be offered the option for additional phone check-ins to coordinate access to community resources and connection to individualized behavioral health supports if desired.
干预措施: Wellness Check-ins (Behavioral)
Forging Hopeful Futures
Forging Hopeful Futures uses a group discussion format with activities that explore race, gender, class, identity, relationships, and multiple forms of violence. Forging Hopeful Futures is a 12 session curriculum for youth ages 13-19 that uses strengths-based and healing-centered approaches to critically examine structural forces that perpetuate racial and gender injustice, develop leadership skills in promoting gender equitable relationship norms, non-violent practices, and upstander skills, and enhance economic justice through job skills and employment opportunities. Through 12 sessions (3 hours/session) over a 6 to 12 week period, Forging Hopeful Futures combines racial, gender, and economic justice content with leadership development and workforce development opportunities.
干预措施: Forging Hopeful Futures (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Change in recent violence perpetration at 3 months
时间窗: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
The primary outcome will be past 3-month youth violence perpetration. This will be measured by self-report on 3 items adapted from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey, using a past-3 month reporting interval: 1) physical fighting ("How many times were you in a physical fight?"), 2) threatening someone with a weapon ("How many times have you threatened someone with a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club?"), and 3) injuring someone with a weapon ("How many times have you injured someone with a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club?"). Each item will be assessed with 8 frequency response categories from 0 times to 12 or more times. A summary score will capture the past 3-month incidence of all 3 behaviors (possible range: 0- 21;lower score indicates better outcome)
次要结局
- Change in cyber dating abuse and peer abuse(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in recent violence perpetration at 6 months(At baseline and six months after program conclusion)
- Change in relationship abuse at 3 months(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in sexual violence perpetration at 3 months(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in bullying perpetration(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in cyberbullying perpetration(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in weapon carrying(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in sexual harassment(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in homophobic teasing(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
研究者
Alison Culyba
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pittsburgh