142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Planning and Implementation of the Multi-level Adelante Positive Youth Development Intervention: Lessons Learned

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 : 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM

Rosa Delmy Alvayero, LGSW , Maryland Multicultural Youth Center, Hyattsville, MD
Emily Putzer, MA , Maryland Multicultural Youth Center, Hyattsville, MD
Luisa Montero, MS
Mark C. Edberg, PhD, MA , Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC
Elizabeth Andrade, DrPH, MPH , Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC
Lauren Simmons, MPH , Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC
Idalina Cubilla, MPH , Avance Center/ Prevention and Community Health Dpt/ Epidemiology Departments, The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, DC
Sean Cleary, PhD, MPH , Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, The George Washington University School of Public Health & Health Services, Washington, DC
Background: Langley Park, Maryland, a predominantly Central American Latino immigrant community experiences considerable health disparities linked to a history of marginalization. The Adelante intervention aims to reduce substance abuse, sexual risk, and interpersonal violence disparities among Latino residents through a Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework. Adelante is being implemented by Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers (MMYC), a division of the Latin American Youth Center, and in collaboration with the George Washington University’s Avance Center for the Advancement of Immigrant/Refugee Health.

Methods:  Planning and implementing Adelante is a collaborative process involving both community and academic partners. Planning was guided by PYD theory and involved operationalizing PYD constructs (both linguistically and culturally) for this population, and reviewing evidence-based curricula and salient research to develop relevant programming, services, and processes linked to PYD constructs. For this community-academic partnership, MMYC’s role as a PYD-centered community-based organization is instrumental in providing the community’s perspective.

Results: The Adelante intervention currently provides programs and services to Langley Park Latino youth/families. These include skill- and capacity-building activities, as well as those that engage participants in community prevention efforts and promote supportive relationships. Leadership and advocacy opportunities have created channels for participants to tell their stories in new and meaningful ways. Successes and challenges encountered (related to recruitment/retention, engagement, staff training, and communication) will be discussed from the community partner perspective.

Conclusions: Adelante is an innovative, multi-level intervention that combines both community-wide and targeted program components, strengthened by capacity building and support services to prevent Latino youth risk behavior.

Learning Areas:

Administer health education strategies, interventions and programs
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Planning of health education strategies, interventions, and programs
Program planning

Learning Objectives:
Describe the process of planning and implementing a multi-level, community-based intervention in a Latino immigrant community through a community-academic partnership Describe the Adelante intervention components Discuss successes and challenges from a community partner perspective

Keyword(s): Immigrant Health, Community-Based Research (CBPR)

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am a veteran program manager at the community-based organization, Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers, that has partnered with the Avance Center at The George Washington University in a community-academic partnership. I manage the program that we have collaboratively planned and will bring the community perspective to light throughout our work in community-based participatory research.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.