142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Ripple effect Milwaukee: Lessons in violence reduction based CBPR

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Patrick Kennelly, MLS , Center for Peacemaking, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Staci Young, PhD , Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Adrian Thomas , Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
The Marquette University Center for Peacemaking, the Medical College of Wisconsin Violence Prevention Initiative, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee partnered for a multiyear community based participatory research project to reduce youth violence. Using a modified version of the Marquette University Peace Works curriculum, a year-long, one hour per week intervention developed by operationalizing UNICEF's definition of peace education, the program aims to increase the protective factors available to young people to prevent violence and increase feelings of school connectedness. Peace Works is grounded in the belief that where youth live impacts their health and exposure to harm. Project leaders purposefully recruited youth from neighborhoods where there was demonstrated increased risk and potential exposure to violence. To date, there have been 417 youth participates in the Peace Works programing. Data collection has focused on three primary areas: measuring young people's protective and risk factors pre, mid, post intervention; insights into what leads to successful cross-disciplinary, cross institutional collaboration between universities and community partners; and reduction of violent incidents.

This presentation will explore lessons learned from placing a community partner as the leader in implementing a university-designed intervention, and incorporating another university as a partner in evaluation. Specifically, lead community and academic partners will discuss lessons learned from incorporating the UNICEF attributes of effective peace education and the challenges of obtaining consent in CBPR project.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Public health or related research

Learning Objectives:
Identify the challenges to consenting youth in community led CBPR. Discuss how the Peace Works education curriculum is aligned with UNICEF's definition of peace education. Explain the lessons learned from implementing a university designed intervention with community leadership. Discuss attributes of effective peace education and evaluation within CBPR.

Keyword(s): Youth Violence

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Patrick Kennelly, MLS is the Director of the Marquette University Center for Peacemaking. He helped develop the Marquette University Peace Works curriculum being used in the Boys & Girls Clubs. He has also overseen the implementation and evaluation of Marquette University Peace Works at public and parochial schools in Milwaukee and Chicago.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.