Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination
概览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 干预措施
- Creating Peace
- 疾病 / 适应症
- Adolescent Behavior
- 发起方
- University of Pittsburgh
- 入组人数
- 581
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in recent use of any violence at 3 months
- 状态
- 已完成
- 最后更新
- 上个月
概览
简要总结
This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender transformative youth violence prevention program called Creating Peace that integrates racism and discrimination prevention with youth ages 14-19.
详细描述
This community-partnered cluster-randomized controlled trial will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender-transformative youth violence prevention program that integrates racism and discrimination prevention. Set in 24 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with concentrated social and economic disadvantage, this study addresses gender and racial injustice through a series of group discussions, bringing together adolescents ages 14-19 with law enforcement officers in a process of social restoration.
研究者
Elizabeth Miller
Professor
University of Pittsburgh
入排标准
入选标准
- •Participants must be ages 14-19 (inclusive)
- •Participants must speak English
排除标准
- •Not ages 14-19 (inclusive)
- •Do not speak English
研究组 & 干预措施
Creating Peace
Creating Peace uses a group discussion format with activities that explore race, gender, sexual identity, and social class. Creating Peace is a 12 session curriculum designed to support youth ages 14-19 in healing from experiences of trauma by restoring social connections, strengthening positive coping strategies that exclude all forms of violence, challenging gender norms that foster violence perpetration, and practicing positive bystander intervention skills to intervene safely with peers' disrespectful and harmful behaviors. Through 12 sessions (3 hours/session) over a 4 to 12 week period, Creating Peace offers gender transformative content combined with youth leadership development. Near program conclusion, youth will offer guidance to law enforcement on interacting with youth in a process of social restoration.
干预措施: Creating Peace
Job Readiness Training
Job Readiness Training uses a group discussion format to learn specific skills to prepare for employment including developing goals, seeking jobs, preparing for interviews, and so forth. Participants receive a 12 session job readiness training with linkages to businesses and employment opportunities. Discussions include a wide range of topics related to career exploration and job readiness.
干预措施: Job Readiness
结局指标
主要结局
Change in recent use of any violence at 3 months
时间窗: At baseline and three months after program conclusion
Summary score of any recent use of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; sexual violence; physical violence and threatening with a weapon; cyber dating abuse, cyber peer abuse, and sexting) calculated as one point for each behavior then summed (lower score indicates better outcome)
Change in recent use of any violence at 9 months
时间窗: At baseline and nine months after program.
Summary score of any recent use of violence (physical, sexual, and emotional abuse; sexual violence; physical violence and threatening with a weapon; cyber dating abuse, cyber peer abuse, and sexting) calculated as one point for each behavior then summed (lower score indicates better outcome)
次要结局
- Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 9 months(At baseline and nine months after program conclusion)
- Change in positive bystander behaviors at 3 months(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in past 30 day weapon carrying at 3 months(At baseline and three months after program conclusion)
- Change in positive bystander behaviors at 9 months(At baseline and nine months after program conclusion)