TY - JOUR
T1 - The SURVIVE Community Project
T2 - A family-based intervention to reduce the impact of violence exposures in urban youth
AU - DeVoe, Ellen R.
AU - Dean, Kara
AU - Traube, Dorian
AU - McKay, Mary M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Ellen R. DeVoe, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work. Her research interests include youth violence exposure, trauma in young children and family-based intervention development and evaluation. She is Principal Investigator, The SURVIVE Community Project, an R01 funded through the Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention.
Funding Information:
Funding was provided by the Center for Youth Violence Prevention at Columbia University School of Public Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a family-based intervention designed to target the harmful effects of exposure to family and community violence on urban youth and their parents. The program, "Supporting Urban Residents to be Violence-Free in a Violent Environment (SURVIVE)," is a 12-week multiple family group (MFG) intervention modeled upon similar children's mental health programs implemented with urban youth of color and their families in several major U.S. cities. The design and implementation of the SURVIVE Community Project were guided by a collaborative partnership between community members, including mental health professionals, teachers, and parents from the Bronx, and an interdisciplinary team of university-based researchers. In order to establish the feasibility and relevance of the program for urban communities, 25 families with children ages 7-11 participated in a pilot test of the curriculum. The description of the SURVIVE Community Project provided here is based on this work, and includes a discussion of facilitation issues. Implications for family-based intervention targeting urban children and families affected by violence are highlighted.
AB - The purpose of this article is to describe the development of a family-based intervention designed to target the harmful effects of exposure to family and community violence on urban youth and their parents. The program, "Supporting Urban Residents to be Violence-Free in a Violent Environment (SURVIVE)," is a 12-week multiple family group (MFG) intervention modeled upon similar children's mental health programs implemented with urban youth of color and their families in several major U.S. cities. The design and implementation of the SURVIVE Community Project were guided by a collaborative partnership between community members, including mental health professionals, teachers, and parents from the Bronx, and an interdisciplinary team of university-based researchers. In order to establish the feasibility and relevance of the program for urban communities, 25 families with children ages 7-11 participated in a pilot test of the curriculum. The description of the SURVIVE Community Project provided here is based on this work, and includes a discussion of facilitation issues. Implications for family-based intervention targeting urban children and families affected by violence are highlighted.
KW - Community violence exposure
KW - Family-based intervention
KW - Multiple family groups
KW - Youth violence prevention
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U2 - 10.1300/J146v11n04_05
DO - 10.1300/J146v11n04_05
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27344444367
SN - 1092-6771
VL - 11
SP - 95
EP - 116
JO - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
JF - Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma
IS - 4
ER -