NCT04474158

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 581 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed description

This community-partnered cluster-randomized controlled trial will examine the effectiveness of a trauma-sensitive, gender-transformative youth violence prevention program that integrates racism and discrimination prevention. Set in 24 neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with concentrated social and economic disadvantage, this study addresses gender and racial injustice through a series of group discussions, bringing together adolescents ages 14-19 with law enforcement officers in a process of social restoration.

Conditions

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

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-12-04
• Primary completion: 2026-01-25
• Completion: 2026-01-25
• First posted: 2020-07-16
• Last updated: 2026-03-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States