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A Report on Understanding Youth Violence in New Haven:A Photovoice Project with New Haven YouthTable of ContentsAcknowledgments………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………1Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………2Project Overview………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..7Reframing our Understanding of Youth Violence………………………………………………………………………8Research Methods…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….………10Findings.……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………12Recommendations……………………………………………………………………………………….………………..…………18AppendicesA. References…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..……….21B. Research Partner Organizations……………………………………………………………………….…………23C. New Haven Family Alliance Street Outreach Worker Program………………………………….25D. Notes from Kick-off Meeting with Youth Participating in the Photovoice Project…....26
AcknowledgmentsWe first begin by gratefully acknowledging the important role that our youth partners playedin creating the data that made this report possible. Their views of life in New Haven throughtheir photographs and words have provided new insight about youth gun violence in NewHaven.We are indebted to Tyrone Weston, Supervisor of the New Haven Family Alliance StreetOutreach Worker Program, Street Outreach Worker Trent Butler for co-facilitating the boy’sfocus group discussions, and for the Street Outreach Workers themselves for their help inrecruiting the youth who participated in this project and for their ongoing supportthroughout the project.We thank the Institute for Community Research and Leslie Curry, PhD for the training theyprovided to the research and facilitation teams; and to Jessica Sack from the Yale UniversityArt Gallery and Jonathan Bailey, a local photographer, for the training they provided to theyouth participants.We also appreciate the work of several individuals, who assisted in data collection andanalysis including Erika Brown, Emily Bucholz, Abigail Paine, and Kelly Traister.We want to thank Laura Lawrence and Kendall Getek who provided administrative supportfor this project.We also thank advisers on the project—David Berg, PhD and Leslie Curry, PhD.Finally, we give special thanks to the talented Lauren Getek for her drawing of the treedepicting the roots of violence and our hope for the future of New Haven youth.Research Team:Chisara Asomugha, MD, MSPHJill Barron, MDShirley Ellis–WestLuke Hansen, MDMitesh Rao, MDMarjorie Rosenthal, MD, MPHBarbara Tinney, MSW, Executive DirectorNew Haven Family AllianceGeorgina Lucas, MSW, Deputy DirectorRobert Wood Johnson Clinical ScholarsProgram1
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