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Preventing Youth Violence Through Building Supportive Communities: An Evaluation of a Multisystemic Intervention

Award Number: R01MD017477
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/15/2022
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2027

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Preventing Youth Violence Through Building Supportive Communities: An Evaluation of a Multisystemic Intervention - Violence disproportionately affects African American youth. In addition to death and injury, violence exposure has significant psychological consequences, including traumatic stress symptoms and internalizing problems. Self-directed violence has shown startling and disproportionate growth among African American youth, with suicide rates nearly doubling from 2007 to 2018. Current prevention strategies have limited effectiveness, perhaps due to their failure to address root causes of violence. The primary aim of this proposed project is to examine the extent to which an intervention addressing problematic experiences in education reduces interpersonal violence and suicide among middle school-aged youth, with a focus on populations experiencing health disparities (African Americans; low-income communities). The proposed project will examine community-level changes using a multiple baseline experimental design that randomizes the start of the intervention in four communities, each comprising a police precinct and middle school. The intervention will consist of school-based intervention components including a culturally responsive, community-inclusive adaptation of a whole-school climate intervention (School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) and culturally responsive practices training and coaching. Outcomes will be measured using archival data from the schools as well as survey data from youth and school personnel. Aim 1 is to evaluate the extent to which targeting disciplinary and pedagogical practices reduces interpersonal violence among youth, as measured by individual-level and school-level data. Aim 2 is to evaluate the extent to which targeting disciplinary and pedagogical practices reduces suicidality among youth, as measured by completed suicides and proximal precedents for suicide, including attempts and ideation. Aim 3 is to evaluate the extent to which targeting disciplinary and pedagogical practices reduces both overall rates and disproportionality of school-based exclusionary discipline practices and increases culturally relevant pedagogy. Aim 4 is to evaluate specific intervention components by determining their effects on hypothesized mechanisms of change at the individual, teacher, and school levels. This intervention has the potential to reduce morbidity and mortality among African American youth, promote overall quality of life, and reduce the societal costs associated with both interpersonal violence and suicidality. Furthermore, effective strategies to address shared causes of violence and suicidality have the potential to facilitate groundbreaking public health prevention of health disparities.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $674,864 )
2025	2025	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	4	9/6/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$674,864
2025	2024	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	3	2/19/2025	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
														Subtotal = $674,864

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $698,007 )
2024	2024	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	002	3	5/29/2024	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$69,801
2024	2024	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	005	3	7/15/2024	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$897,364
2024	2024	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	006	3	7/17/2024	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
2024	2024	VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY	110 21ST AVE S	NASHVILLE	TN	37203	DAVIDSON	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	3	3/30/2024	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$628,206
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 N UNIVERSITY BLVD	MOBILE	AL	36608	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	004	2	7/15/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$692,190
2024	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 N UNIVERSITY BLVD	MOBILE	AL	36608	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	3/30/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 N UNIVERSITY BLVD	MOBILE	AL	36608	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	003	1	7/15/2024	NEW	-$205,174
														Subtotal = $698,007

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $692,190 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 UNIVERISTY BLVD 380 ADMINISTRATION BLDG	MOBILE	AL	36688	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	2	2/4/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$692,190
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 UNIVERISTY BLVD 380 ADMINISTRATION BLDG	MOBILE	AL	36688	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	001	2	5/2/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $692,190

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $713,413 )
2022	2022	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA	307 UNIVERISTY BLVD 380 ADMINISTRATION BLDG	MOBILE	AL	36688	MOBILE	USA	Minority Health and Health Disparities Research	000	1	5/15/2022	NEW	$713,413
														Subtotal = $713,413

Grand Total All Awards = $2,778,474

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Preventing Youth Violence Through Building Supportive Communities: An Evaluation of a Multisystemic Intervention

Award Number: R01MD017477

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL CENTER ON MINORITY HEALTH AND HEALTH DISPARITIES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 05/15/2022

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 01/31/2027

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