Creating Peace: Community-based Youth Violence Prevention to Address Racism and Discrimination

Summary

This cluster-randomized community-partnered study will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender transformative youth violence prevention program called Creating Peace that integrates racism and discrimination prevention with youth ages 14-19.

Conditions

• Adolescent Behavior
• Group, Peer
• Violence, Non-accidental
• Violence, Sexual
• Violence, Domestic
• Emotional Abuse
• Coping Skills
• Communication, Personal

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Creating Peace

Creating Peace is a 12 session curriculum designed to support youth ages 14-19 in healing from experiences of trauma by restoring social connections, strengthening positive coping strategies that exclude all forms of violence, challenging gender norms that foster violence perpetration, and practicing positive bystander intervention skills to intervene safely with peers' disrespectful and harmful behaviors. Through 12 sessions (3 hours/session) over a 4 to 12 week period, Creating Peace offers gender transformative content combined with youth leadership development. Near program conclusion, youth will offer guidance to law enforcement on interacting with youth in a process of social restoration.

BEHAVIORAL

Job Readiness

Job Readiness Training uses a group discussion format to learn specific skills to prepare for employment including developing goals, seeking jobs, preparing for interviews, and so forth.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  collaborator NIH

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• University of Pittsburgh

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD · University of Pittsburgh

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

14 Years

Max Age

19 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-12-04

Primary Completion

2026-01-25

Completion

2026-01-25

Countries

• United States

Study Locations