Levels of community engagement in youth violence prevention: the role of power in sustaining successful university-community partnerships.

Achieving public health impact in youth violence prevention through community-research partnerships.

PROBLEM Violence is a leading cause of death and disability for U.S. youth. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)'s Division of Violence Prevention (DVP) is committed to developing communities' capacity to engage in evidence-based youth violence (YV) prevention. PURPOSE We discuss the characteristics of communities that exert influence on the development and epidemiology o...

A community-based systems learning approach to understanding youth violence in Boston.

BACKGROUND Youth violence in general and gang violence in particular continues to be a pernicious problem facing the majority of large U.S. cities. Attempts to reduce youth violence are hindered by the absence of a shared framework that crosses multiple disciplines. OBJECTIVE The goal of the Youth Violence Systems Project (YVSP) is to help communities strategize for and achieve sustained redu...

Methods for linking community views to measureable outcomes in a youth violence prevention program.

BACKGROUND All parties in community-academic partnerships have a vested interest prevention program success. Markers of success that reflect community's experiences of programmatic prevention success are not always measurable, but critically speak to community-defined needs. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this manuscript was to (1) describe our systematic process for linking locally relevant commun...

Mobilizing communities to implement evidence-based practices in youth violence prevention: the state of the art.

Community mobilization can increase the effective implementation of evidence-based practices (EBPs) in youth violence prevention. These strategies bring together people and organizations in a community to try to solve or reduce a problem. They help communities address the challenges of identifying EBPs, disseminating them to local decision-makers, and then implementing and sustaining them if th...

Community-based participatory research approaches to youth violence prevention: reflections on the special issue.