Lead Investigator/Co-Investigators: Kevin W. Allison, Ph.D., Torey Edmonds, Karen Wilson

Background: Adaptive social connections among neighbors have been identified as important community-level resources associated with youth adaptation. Both conceptual and empirical work examining community factors linked to youth violence and youth violence prevention underline the important role of the community, neighborhood resources, social connections among community residents, and shared values among neighbors. In our current work, we focus on social capital at the community level as a central factor that works to reduce community-level risk of youth violence.