Tackling Urban Inequalities: A Process Evaluation of the Boston Defending Childhood Initiative.

摘要

As part of the U.S. Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Demonstration Program, eight sites around the country were funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and the Office of Violence Against Women to use a collaborative process to develop and implement programming to address children’s exposure to violence in their communities. Boston, Massachusetts was chosen as one of these sites, and, since 2010, has received over $3 million in federal funding for this initiative. Led by the Boston Public Health Commission, the Boston Defending Childhood Initiative (Boston DCI) implemented a variety of strategies that targeted the highest risk neighborhoods in the city. Working predominantly with communities of color, Boston DCI developed a model for centralizing the importance of racial/social justice and health equity during both planning and implementation in nearly every approach for addressing children’s exposure to violence.