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Evidence-based Violence Prevention: Outcomes from a 10-year Statewide Scale-up Brian K. Bumbarger Gun Violence Task Force Youth Violence Prevention Summit January 22, 2013
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Evidence-based Violence Prevention:
Outcomes from a 10-year Statewide Scale-up
Brian K. Bumbarger
Gun Violence Task Force
Youth Violence Prevention Summit
January 22, 2013
Risk-focused Prevention Planning (the Communities That Care model)
Collect local data on
risk and protective
factors
Use data to
identify priorities
Select and implement
evidence-based program that
targets those factors
Re-assess risk
and protective
factors
Form local coalition
of key stakeholders
Leads to community
synergy and
focused resource allocation
Pennsylvania’s CTC coalitions 2012
Pennsylvania’s EBP dissemination in 2012…
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-10
0
10
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30
40
-10.8
33.2
-10.8
16.4
Delinquency AcademicPerformance
Nega vePeerInfluence SchoolEngagement
5 year Longitudinal Study of PA Youth
% Change of CTC/EBP Youth Over
Comparison Group
419 age-grade cohorts over a 5-year period:
youth in CTC communities using EBPs had significantly lower rates of delinquency,
greater resistance to negative peer influence,
stronger school engagement and better academic achievement
Feinberg, M.E., Greenberg, M.T., Osgood, W.O., Sartorius, J., Bontempo, D.E. (2010). Can Community Coalitions Have a
Population Level Impact on Adolescent Behavior Problems? CTC in Pennsylvania, Prevention Science.
Impact on Juvenile Court Placement Rates: Comparison of Placement Rates for Counties* With and Without an EBI
9.07
9.76
10.05
10.53
9.89
8.70
7.79 7.78
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7.50
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8.50
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2007 2008 2009 2010
No EBI
AdoptedEBI
Bumbarger, B. K., Moore, J., & Rhoades, B. (2010). Impact of evidence-based interventions on delinquency placement rates.
Presentation at 2011 Society for Prevention Research annual meeting. Washington, DC.
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Justice Reinvestment Realized
Final thoughts…
• Focus on improving behavioral and emotional health – At the COMMUNITY level
• Identify the drivers of good and poor health within specific communities – using DATA
• Focus on a small number of strategies with PROOF of effectiveness, and do them very well
• Shift the focus from expensive, ineffective deep-end services (AFTER crime occurs) to prevention and community mobilization that we KNOW WORKS!
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