ACE Logic Model — Activities

The second and third columns of the conceptual framework capture an ACE’s activities: developing a research agenda; developing a community mobilization plan; improving surveillance; conducting research; building capacity; and implementing the community mobilization plan. (Multisectoral and multidisciplinary collaboration and dissemination are inputs and outputs, respectively.)

Develop Research Agenda

An ACE is encouraged to engage stakeholders within its defined community in developing an overall research plan, identifying research priorities, selecting research projects, recruiting research participants, refining research methods, developing interventions, conducting research, and reporting and disseminating research findings.  ACEs are charged with establishing a 5-year research agenda tied to one or more HHS objectives or Healthy People 2010, CDC Injury Research Agenda, Guide to Community Prevention Services, or local youth violence prevention research priorities.

Develop Community Mobilization Plan

ACEs are charged with developing and implementing a 5-year community mobilization or action plan, in collaboration with the community committee. Further, the development of a community mobilization plan should be tied to the ACE Research Agenda with an identified relationship to one or more youth violence prevention priorities.

Conduct Core Activities:

• Improve Surveillance — This core area includes gathering, analyzing, and interpreting surveillance data to enable the defined community an ACE serves to better measure the problem of youth violence and to accurately reflect trends in the target community and the greater community. All surveillance activities proposed should include an appropriate translation and dissemination plan.
• Conduct Research — The research an ACE conducts should be informed by local priorities and the CDC Injury Research Agenda. It should contribute to new methods of studying, understanding, or preventing youth interpersonal violence.  In addition, ACEs may conduct research funded by other federal agencies and by state agencies, community-based organizations, and foundations. All research is expected to be conducted using sound research methods that further the field of youth violence prevention research.  All research proposed under the ACE program should include an appropriate dissemination plan.
• Build Capacity — ACEs are also charged with developing a 5-year plan to train, provide technical assistance to, or mentor health professionals, researchers, practitioners, students, community members, and others. These activities, which are expected to be developed in collaboration with the recipients, may cover a range of topics, including youth violence prevention best practices, community building, research, evaluation, as well as other needs identified by ACE partners. ACEs may also train and provide technical assistance to community partners on implementing specific prevention and health promotion interventions, including effective practices.
• Implement Mobilization Plan — ACEs are expected to form, nurture, and advance partnerships with the community designed to implement evidence-based strategies or promising programs.  Community implementation efforts can include convening stakeholders—including the most affected— helping to organize across different sectors, fostering strategic alliances, and strengthening community bonds, assessing community resources, mapping community assets, and enabling a fuller understanding of and response to the nature and dynamics of local violence.  

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