A Multi-level Approach to Violence Prevention Among African American Adolescents

Comprehensive, Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention. The intervention consists of three components: (1) a 15-week after-school program, (2) group mentoring, and (3) community enhancement activities. Adolescents and mentors will attend a 2-hour weekly session at a community center, and will conduct up to four community enhancement activities. At the end of the program, a graduation celebration will be planned, and parents/guardians and stakeholders (e.g., coalition members) will be invited.

This is arm is measuring the Multi-level Violence Prevention Intervention that is administered to the boys, from the perspectives of their caregivers. The caregivers themselves will not receive an intervention, but their perspectives of the impact on the interventions on the boys will be examined