External Advisory Board Meeting

October 22-23, 2015

MSCR Program

Anthony M. Provenzano, MSCR, MSW, MPA

Population Health Equity Framework for Promoting

Developmental Health, Economic, and Social Justice

October 23, 2015

Transforming and Renewing

School-Communities

Background

Economic and social inequities combined with increasing academic and

developmental health disparities have increased exponentially.

Institutionalized discriminatory policies and practices, and a multitude of

economic, political, and social factors have created inequities among

student learning and youth development opportunities.

Consequently, low-income urban school-communities are inundated by

inadequately resourced and academically underperforming schools.

More startling, it is these school-communities that have students with the

highest risk for adverse economic, developmental health, social, and

educational outcomes.

The Response Transforming and Renewing School-Communities (TRSC) is a

population health equity framework and pilot study designed to support

school-communities in building capacity for equitable health promoting

and prevention programming delivered afterschool to low-income

communities.

TRSC was designed to combat antiquated political views, spurious

public opinions, denigrating cultural norms, behaviors, and beliefs, and

historical institutionalized discriminatory policies and practices.

Methods: Evaluating the TRSC Framework

This research employs an interdisciplinary academic-

school partnership model to collaboratively evaluate

the TRSC framework.

Community-Based Participatory Research and mixed

methods approach to data collection.

Case study analysis of a health promoting youth

development prevention program.

Utilization-focused program evaluation

Assess the efficacy of TRSC framework; and

Measure the impact of the Performing Arts and Youth

Development-Music Education (PAYD-ME) program.

Methods: Evaluation of the PAYD-ME Program

The Performing Arts Youth Development-Music Education

(PAYD-ME) pilot program was modeled after a Venezuelan

ensemble-based orchestral music education and social experiment.

We recruited fifth grade students (n=40) from a low-income

community to participate in this extracurricular music intervention.

Quasi-experimental two-year single group pretest-posttest study

design.

Results: Multi-Tiered Outcomes

TRSC provided a comprehensive approach to targeting economic,

educational, developmental health and social inequities at multiple

levels:

Institutional and Public Opinion (Greater Community)

Academic-School-Community Partnership

School-Community Environment

Student Outcomes

School-Community and Student Outcomes

Supported individual and collective identity formation among students

Facilitated social and skill-building youth development

Empowered student learning activation and academic achievement

Engendered school pride and broader community recognition

Fostered civic engagement and community volunteerism

Informed policy and evidence-based decision making.

Academic-Community-School Results Provided a model for collaborative partnership development,

sustainability, and school-community renewal

Established an institutionalized structure for multidisciplinary

research, and capacity building process for interdisciplinary

approaches to the provision of youth development programming.

Facilitated information sharing and co-learning among key

stakeholders across disciplines.

Enabled collective and strategic planning, designing, and program

evaluating cultural relevancy at the population level.

Institutional and Public Opinion The TRSC model provided this school-community with the:

Required capacity to deliver prevention programming

Facilitated cultural sensitivity, positive organizational and cultural shifts

Established a platform for promoting school and civic engagement

Delivered promotive and protective factors

Mitigated inequitable and discriminatory policies and practices

Conclusions and A Call To Action

Transforming and Renewing School-Communities proved efficacious in

building school-community capacity for the provision of extracurricular

academic, social and skill-building youth development programming.

TRSC created the additional capacity required to equip key local leaders

with knowledge and resources to target the specific cultural and learning

needs of this low-income community.

It is essential multidisciplinary, population health equity, and integrated

youth development approaches become entrenched in school-communities

to maximize resource allocation and foster innovative partnership across

the education, health, and human service systems.

Advantages of the MSCR Program Multidisciplinary research and course offering opportunities

Sponsored mentorship (one-on-one training)

Course training in epidemiology and advanced statistics

Training in statistical software packages: SAS, Stata, and SPSS

Fellowship funding, research allowance, and healthcare coverage

Funding for Research Dissemination, Leadership, and Network Opportunities: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Inaugural Forum on Population Health Equity –

Emerging Research Poster Presentation Selection

Society for Prevention Research, Annual Conference

ACTS Translational Science Annual Meeting

MICHR OPIS – 1st Place Poster Presentation

U-M Symposium for Health and Social Justice – 1st Place Poster Presentation Award

Student Leadership Institute, Association for Schools and Programs of Public Health -

Nominated by U-M School of Public Health

Victors for Michigan Campaign, Donors Luncheon