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

The Violence Intervention and Prevention team (VIP): results of an action research evaluation.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This paper describes a school-based youth violence prevention program and challenges encountered during efforts to evaluate it. Members of a community partnership team helped to shape the quantitative and qualitative data collection and to interpret results. METHODS 48 youth participants in the violence prevention program completed a survey soliciting information about v...

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

Streetworkers, youth violence prevention, and peacemaking in Lowell, Massachusetts: lessons and voices from the community.

BACKGROUND Communities across the United States are using street outreach workers (SWs) to prevent violence. SW programs are generally recognized as a promising model, particularly in light of a 2008 evaluation that demonstrated positive impacts associated with one well-known program. The United Teen Equality Center (UTEC) includes an SW program. OBJECTIVES Through this paper we aim to (1) do...

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...

SAFER Latinos: a community partnership to address contributing factors for Latino youth violence.

BACKGROUND This paper describes a multilevel youth violence prevention effort called SAFER Latinos (Seguridad, Apoyo, Familia, Educacion, y Recursos), a collaboration between The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (GWU) and two key Latino community organizations. OBJECTIVES To implement and evaluate an intervention addressing factors within the social eco...