Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities

NCT00164593 | Completed Phase 1

• 2 other identifiers: CDC-NCIPC-4530U49CE000348
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,142
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This project is an evaluation of an intervention to involve youth in creating community change for peace promotion and violence prevention. The intervention, Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities (YES), includes three components: youth empowerment activities, neighborhood organization development, and community development projects that involve youth and organizations working together. Hypothesis 1: Efforts to engage youth in the community change process will enhance their attachment to their community, reduce their problem behaviors, and begin to change norms among their peers about community violence and interpersonal problem solving. Hypothesis 2: Efforts to make community-based organizations more youth-friendly and engaging will assist them to be more effective in reaching their community enhancement goals and will expand youth involvement in their mission. Hypothesis 3: Efforts to create more health-enhancing land use (e.g., beautification, community gardens, parks development) will improve social organization (e.g., social capital, social cohesion, and social support), and reduce the level of violent incidents and crime in the community.

Conditions

Violence; Juvenile Delinquency; Social Problems; Social Control, Informal

Keywords

Youth Violence; Prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Youth Violence

  6 months

Interventions

Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities BEHAVIORAL

YES is a multi-faceted program that (1) engages 7th and 8th graders in a youth development program, (2) enhances neighborhood organizations' ability to include youth in their activities, and (3) connects the youth participants and adults in neighborhood organizations (e.g., crime watches, block groups, neighborhood associations) to carry out neighborhood improvement activities (e.g., community gardens, parks cleanup).

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 15 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• th and 8th graders in the intervention middle-school attendance area
• Neighborhood organizations with at least 10 members serving the intervention middle-school attendance area

You may not qualify if:

• Students who have been suspended or expelled during the intervention period
• Neighborhood organizations that serve areas in both the intervention and comparison areas.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Michigan School of Public Health

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Marc Zimmerman, PhD

  University of Michigan School of Public Health

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 1
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: FED
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 12, 2005
• First Posted: September 14, 2005
• Study Start: April 1, 2005
• Primary Completion: August 1, 2008
• Study Completion: August 1, 2009
• Last Updated: April 5, 2012

Record last verified: 2012-04

Locations

US (1)