Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ

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Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ has made available the following final technical report:
Power of Developmental Assets in Building Behavioral Adjustment Among Youth Exposed to Community Violence: A Multidisciplinary Longitudinal Study of Resilience
Researchers and practitioners have repeatedly noted substantial variation in the behavioral functioning of youth exposed to community violence. Several studies across fields have documented the detrimental effects of exposure to violence, while other studies have considered how developmental assets promote positive youth development. However, few have examined the lives of the many youth who demonstrate resilience (that is, positive adjustment despite risk) and hardly any have examined how developmental assets may shape resilient trajectories into adulthood for youth exposed to violence.
This report seeks to examine the effects of family, peer, and neighborhood-level protective factors, or developmental assets, on behavioral adjustment for high-risk youth exposed to community violence using the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) longitudinal study sample.
Read the Executive Summary (pdf, 25 pages).
http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type ... 237916.pdf
Read the Full Final Report (pdf, 71 pages).
http://links.govdelivery.com/track?type ... 237915.pdf