Community Violence and Youth: Affect, Behavior, Substance Use, and Academics |
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Authors: | Michele Cooley-Strickland Tanya J Quille Robert S Griffin Elizabeth A Stuart Catherine P Bradshaw Debra Furr-Holden |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mental Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA;(2) Center for Culture and Health, Department of Psychiatry, NPI-Semel Institute for Neuroscience, University of California—Los Angeles, 760 Westwood Plaza, Box 62, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1759, USA |
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Abstract: | Community violence is recognized as a major public health problem (WHO, World Report on Violence and Health,
2002) that Americans increasingly understand has adverse implications beyond inner-cities. However, the majority of research on
chronic community violence exposure focuses on ethnic minority, impoverished, and/or crime-ridden communities while treatment
and prevention focuses on the perpetrators of the violence, not on the youth who are its direct or indirect victims. School-based treatment and preventive interventions are needed for children at elevated risk for exposure to community violence.
In preparation, a longitudinal, community epidemiological study, The Multiple Opportunities to Reach Excellence (MORE) Project, is being fielded to address some of the methodological weaknesses presented in previous studies. This study was designed
to better understand the impact of children’s chronic exposure to community violence on their emotional, behavioral, substance
use, and academic functioning with an overarching goal to identify malleable risk and protective factors which can be targeted
in preventive and intervention programs. This paper describes the MORE Project, its conceptual underpinnings, goals, and methodology,
as well as implications for treatment and preventive interventions and future research. |
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Keywords: | Community violence Children and youth Urban African American Internalizing Externalizing Substance use Academic Prevention |
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