# Urgent Revision to Creating Peace: community-level intervention to reduce youth violence (R01MD013797, PI: Miller)

> **NIH NIH R01** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2020 · $324,997

## Abstract

In response to NOT-MD-20-022 (Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Competitive and Administrative
Supplements for Community Interventions to Reduce the Impact of COVID-19 on Health Disparity and Other
Vulnerable Populations), this urgent competitive revision (PA-18-935) aims to evaluate a novel community-
based multi-level intervention focused on child and youth thriving to respond to the pressing need for
behavioral supports for youth and adults in the context of COVID-19. Residents in oppressed neighborhoods
who are predominantly Black and Latinx have increased vulnerability to COVID-19 and the economic and
social consequences of public health mitigation measures. The pandemic has disrupted social supports and
increased social isolation among youth in these communities. This community-partnered, multi-level
intervention engages supportive adults and youth to envision child/youth thriving to increase collective self-
efficacy, reduce social isolation, promote emotional well-being among supportive adults and youth, and reduce
youth violence in urban, racially-segregated neighborhoods. This intervention involves community members
and youth leaders assessing child and youth thriving in their neighborhood, using a community-developed
Child/Youth Thriving Matrix tool to engage in structured dialogue on neighborhood transformation, racial and
gender equity, youth engagement, and organizing for social change. Findings from discussions will inform
youth engagement in racial and gender justice activities in the context of this pandemic and offer a prototype
for a community-level intervention to help mitigate the consequences of a pandemic, systemic racism, and
structural inequities. This proposed study will assess feasibility of this Child/Youth Thriving Matrix tool as a
community-based, multi-level intervention to promote neighborhood resilience and prevent youth violence. In
Aim 1, we will evaluate feasibility of implementing Child/Youth Thriving Matrix within two neighborhoods (i.e.,
>80% retention of participants through all sessions; satisfaction scores > 4.0 (range 1-5); identification of at
least three areas of focus for enhancing child thriving). Two other matched neighborhoods will be offered an
individual mindfulness intervention as a control condition (final anticipated n = 80 participants/arm). Aim 2 will
explore appropriateness of measures to evaluate intervention effects on individual- and neighborhood-level
collective efficacy, emotional well-being (including mental health and social isolation), and youth violence, in
preparation for a larger trial to test this community-level intervention. These research objectives build on
infrastructure of the parent study (Creating Peace: community-based youth violence prevention to address
racism and discrimination (R01MD013797, PI: Miller)). The goal of this urgent revision is to optimize a
community-designed, community-level intervention to address structural inequities that have become all too
appare...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10215711
- **Project number:** 3R01MD013797-02S2
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** Elizabeth Miller
- **Activity code:** R01 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $324,997
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-05-24 → 2024-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10215711

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10215711, Urgent Revision to Creating Peace: community-level intervention to reduce youth violence (R01MD013797, PI: Miller) (3R01MD013797-02S2). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-11 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10215711. Licensed CC0.

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