this project will evaluate a community and school based program to promote healthy relationships and prevent violence (physical, emotional and sexual dating violence) among predominately African American middle school adolescents in an urban setting (Baltimore, MD).
This initiative includes 4 major components: 1) A variety of arts based student activities related to violence prevention (during and after school theatre projects, during and/or after school visual arts project, and the web page design project. (All students will either directly participate in these activities or at least see them), 2) Curricular components for all 7th graders, 3) Violence prevention and early intervention student support/discussion groups, and 4) Faculty and staff training on the subject. The evaluation is a quasi-experimental pre/post test comparison group design (2 schools in each group), where our comparison schools convert to intervention schools one year after serving as comparison schools. We are using both group (student and teacher surveys) and school wide (climate of the school) measures pre and post intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
1,440
Dunbar Middle School
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Calverton
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Lemmel Middle School
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Lombard School
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dating violence perpetration
Time frame: past 12 months
Dating violence victimization
Time frame: past 12 months
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