Engaging practitioners and academic researchers in co-developing evaluation measures for community violence interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community violence intervention (CVI) is increasingly considered an important component of comprehensive public safety infrastructure, but research and evaluation of CVI programs remain underdeveloped. There is a critical need for evaluation measures that are developed collaboratively with those most proximate to these interventions and that capture interventions' nuanced and holistic impacts. This paper presents the process and results of a practitioner-academic partnership to co-develop youth-focused CVI evaluation measures in Washington state.

Results

The process of co-developing evaluation measures involved two phases. For phase 1, we created a menu of quantitative measures (n = 60) for each outcome construct in a previously co-developed CVI theory of change b

SUBMITTER: Girma M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12801489 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature