Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention
The Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention promotes a multi-level perspective on youth violence though a “person-in context-through time” perspective. This perspective is based on the premise that there are multiple levels of influence on youth violence and multiple pathways through which such influence is expressed. Established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2000 as an Academic Center of Excellence, CCYVP’s goals are to: 1) bring together researchers, practitioners, community representatives and policy makers to foster an integrated approach to youth violence in the NYC metropolitan area; 2) monitor changes in youth violence NYC; 3) investigate causes and consequences of this violence; 4) identify, support and evaluate promising interventions; 5) develop an integrated, multilevel, public health intervention plan to reduce youth violence in the NYC metropolitan area; 6) train a new generation of violence researchers and practitioners; and 7) disseminate findings regionally, nationally and internationally.uth violence and violence exposure, in New York City specifically.
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Community Outcomes of Assisted Outpatient Treatment
Community Outcomes of Assisted Outpatient Treatment, a research project funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health, to follow-up persons enrolled in New York State outpatient commitment programs. The study, conducted in conjunction with Bronx and Creedmoor Psychiatric Centers and Bronx-Lebanon Medical Center, will provide information to policy makers about the success of court-ordered outpatient treatment for people with severe mental illness in New York State. This project is directed by Dr. Dorothy Castille and has recruited and followed for 12 months approximately 200 people.
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Evaluation of the Youth Futures Network
The Youth Futures Network (YFN), a network partnership that coordinates neighborhood efforts to identify substance abusing youth and link them to a centralized intake and referral, as well as a comprehensive support system of substance abuse treatment for youth people in the community. The purpose of the Youth Futures Network (YFNB) is to identify, assess and facilitate entry and retention in treatment for those East Central Harlem Youths who are abusing chemically addictive substances or who are at imminent risk of development of substance abuse problems. This initiative takes advantage of several strategies designed by Pheonix House/Center for Court Innovation/Harlem Community justice Center (HCJC) to increase access to treatment. First, we utilize the extensive and continually developing network of organizations and services of the HCJC, which has evolved as a result of a community based mandate. Second, we increase the number of treatment slots available in this defined geographic area of New York City. Between 75-100 youth and their families can be served by the addition of an outpatient treatment component accessible to all youth screened by the HCJC assessment unit. Third we utilize an innovative and cost effective treatment approach for this project the recently issued MET/CBT5+7 and the family support Network Module, all from Cannabis Youth Treatment series (CYT Vol.1-3, 2001). Lastly, we increase efficiency by using the intake art of the HCJC and Pheonix House screening and assessment services, as the centralized treatment matching and client tracking unit (MIS) for the entire East and Central Harlem community defined for theses services.
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