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