Harvard School of Public Health, Health Policy and Management, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2011 Sep;48(1-2):21-30. doi: 10.1007/s10464-010-9408-8.
Academic Centers for Excellence on Youth Violence Prevention (ACE), which support a broad range of activities over and above RO1-type research projects, can add significantly to a community's capacity to respond to youth violence. We use the example of the Harvard Youth Violence Prevention Center to describe the types of research-practice collaborations these centers can promote, as well as the ways in which these collaborations can foster adoption of program planning, development, implementation and evaluation practices consistent with evidence-based approaches to youth violence prevention. Throughout, we describe the ways in which the existence of a center led, under the ACE format, to research, policy and practice opportunities that would not have existed in the absence of a center.
学术卓越中心（ACE）专注于青年暴力预防，支持除 RO1 类型的研究项目之外的广泛活动，可极大地提高社区应对青年暴力的能力。我们以哈佛青年暴力预防中心为例，介绍这些中心可以促进的研究-实践合作类型，以及这些合作如何促进采用符合循证方法的项目规划、开发、实施和评估实践。在整个过程中，我们描述了在 ACE 模式下，中心的存在所带来的研究、政策和实践机会，这些机会在没有中心的情况下是不会存在的。
