Using community perspectives on youth firearm violence for prevention program planning

✍ Scribed by Alice J. Hausman; Kevin Siddons; Julie Becker

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0090-4392
• DOI: 10.1002/1520-6629(200011)28:6<643::aid-jcop7>3.0.co;2-k

✦ Synopsis

Initiative is a youth firearm violence prevention program using a partnership model that links healthcare, criminal justice, business, and social service providers with neighborhood residents and community organizations to identify priorities and develop solutions. The assessment phase helped build the partnerships and engage the community in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of specific interventions. The needs assessment was used to 1) specify the problem of firearm violence in the target community; 2) frame possible solutions in the language of the community; 3) identify community assets and resources for planning, implementation and evaluation; 4) engage key members of the community for participation in the assessment and intervention planning process; and 5) identify appropriate markers for evaluation of progress and outcome. This paper presents the qualitative method of Rapid Participatory Appraisal used