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Boston’s Integrated Approach to Violence Prevention: The Work of the Defending Childhood Initiative and the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention Christopher Byner Catherine Fine Andrea Perry

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Boston’s Integrated Approach to Violence Prevention:The Work of the Defending Childhood Initiative and the National

Forum on Youth Violence Prevention

Christopher BynerCatherine FineAndrea Perry

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Social Determinants

of Health

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VIP

Choice Neighborhoods

PACT

Defending Childhood Initiative

Circle of Promise

Boston Public Schools

BCYF/ Streetworkers

Boston Public Health CommissionHealth

Department of Neighborhood Development

EOHHS -- DYS and DCF

Non-Profits

Clergy/ Faith-based

Youth

Businesses

Colleges/ Universities

Foundations

Community residents

JCS/ YOU Boston

Hospitals

Prosecutors Probation

Corrections

Federalagencies

Boston Police Department

Youth Violence Prevention

Funders Learning Collaborative

Community Policing – Safe Street Teams, Ceasefire, etc.

YouthConnectMAIG

Mayor’s Office

Boston Reentry Initiatives – adult and juvenile

City of Boston’s National Forum Youth Violence Prevention Plan:

Comprehensive, multi-agency, City-led three year action plan Person, place, and issue-based strategies Focused on gang and gun violence; young offenders/victims, their families and communitiesEnhanced information sharing and civic engagement in support of Prevention, Intervention, Enforcement and ReentryCommunity building and family strengthening are key components

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Early Prevention Prevention Intervention Enforcement Reentry

STRATEGIES

0 AGE Early 30s

Low Level of Risk High

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Principles of our Work: • Multi-disciplinary and reliance on partnerships• Community involved• Strengths-based• Considers social norms• Coordination and leveraging resources• Developmentally appropriate• Flexible

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Evidence based/ evidence informed• Decisions about where to focus resources and

place based initiatives are data driven

• “The integration of best research evidence with [practicioner] expertise and [community, client] values”(Institute of Medicine 2001 report, Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century)

• Utilize effective methods to bridge the gap between research and practice

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Social Spheres

Community Level

Family/Adult Influencer Level

Individual Level

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Community Level• The settings, such as schools, workplaces, and

neighborhoods, in which people live, work, and play and the characteristics of these settings that are associated with exposure to violence. – Prevention – designed to impact the climate (including

social norms), processes, and policies in a community– Intervention – designed to impact community-level

safety

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Place-based Initiatives– Choice

Neighborhoods– Safe Streets Teams/

Community Policing– OJJDP Grant in

Mattapan– VIP/STRYVE

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VIP/STRYVE: Violence Prevention through Community Engagement and Mobilization

Residents are a community’s primary asset

Social cohesion and efficacy are protective factors

Community mobilization can enhance social cohesion and efficacy

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Operation Ceasefire– Multi-agency, national best practice– Targeting most active gangs, in terms of gun

violence– Messaging component to remove anonymity and

hold them accountable for their actions• Offering services• Promising enforcement consequences

– Relentless follow up on services and enforcement

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Youth- Driven Social Marketing Campaign

• Healthy relationships and healthy masculinity messages• Feature Boston youth in

campaign materials.• Youth develop the messages,

manage social media and plan events. • Ongoing programming

implemented by Peer Leaders.

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Family/Adult Influencer Level• Close relationships (peers, partners, family

members) that may influence behavior or otherwise impact the likelihood of experiencing violence as a victim or perpetrator

• Prevention – designed to support and educate adult influencers to provide positive modeling and messaging for young people; to provide resources and opportunities for siblings/children of those perpetrating violence

• Intervention – designed to provide resources for families impacted by violence

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Recognize the role of adult influencers (coaches, youth workers) in communicating healthy relationship messages to youth. – Through DCI, Boston Centers for

Youth and Families lead effortto train over 40 athletic directorsto implement Coaching Boysto Men curriculum

– Host local Y-Summit

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DCI identified need for increased training for frontline staff, providers, and residents to:• Increase their knowledge about the impact

of violence and trauma on children • Increase skills to support to children,

adolescents and families• Increase skills to promote resilience and

assets in children, adolescents and families

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Build capacity of local agencies to implement Family Nurturing Programs – The Nurturing program is evidence based and has been

adapted for different cultural groups and developmental phases.

– Strengths based approach that builds nurturing relationships within and among families as well as connects to local resources.

– Meets families where are they are: health centers, early care centers, housing developments, and churches

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Individual Level• Personal history and identity factors that impact

the likelihood of becoming a victim or perpetrator of violence– Prevention strategies – designed to promote attitudes,

beliefs, and behaviors that prevent violence– Intervention strategies – designed to provide

resources for those exposed to/affected by violence and opportunities and/or suppression for those perpetrating violence

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PACT InitiativePACT is a multi-agency, person and place-based firearm violence reduction initiative that focuses on the individuals driving firearm violence in hotspot neighborhoods.

The strategy aims to reduce firearm violence by:

•Targeting a small but dangerous group of gang involved youth with proactive law enforcement suppression tactics,

•Offering intervention and prevention services to PACT individuals and their family members, and

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PACT Service Strategy Overview• PACT Clients: Education and Employment

Services• PACT Sibs/Children: Case Management with

focus on education and out of school time; out of school time and employment opportunities

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Opportunities for practice change through the PACT Initiative

• Providing services to children and siblings of clients to interrupt cycle of violence• Expanding frame of service delivery from jobs

to healing. • Ask “What happened to you?”

• Challenge of accessing resources for multiple exposure to violence

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Intersection between community violence and intimate partner violence

Year Total Arrests

Violent Offence Arrests

Domestic Violence Arrests

Year 1 210 66 arrests • 31.4% of total

arrests (66)

13 arrests • 6% of total arrests• 19.7% of violent

offence arrests

Year 2 220 62 arrests • 28.2% of total

arrests (62)

8 arrests• 3.6% of total arrests• 13% of violent offence

arrests

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Through DCI, increase capacity of behavioral health system to provide evidence based treatments to address trauma– 3 Intensive Learning Communities reaching over

90 clinicians. – Increased Services at 2 Community Health

Centers.• Focus on family engagement through a family partner• Connection to a medical home and primary care• Sustainability

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Primary prevention through: – Promoting healthy relationships among youth

through peer leadership. – Universal Social Emotional Learning Curriculums• Will reach 23 schools with the Open Circles curriculum• 7,000 students grades Kindergarten through 5th grade• Training 750 educators

Develop healthy relationships now to prevention future generations’ exposure to violence.

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Opportunities and Next Directions• Federal partnerships benefiting local level

strategies• Leveraging non-traditional funding streams