New findings for the SPIN Project

Acting Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Associate Professor Jaime Booth is the PI of the Spaces and People in Neighborhoods (SPIN) Project, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), that seeks to understand Black youths’ experiences of supportive and stressful microspaces in their neighborhood, with the goal of designing interventions that may mitigate race-based health and well-being disparities. Her new article in Youth & Society reported on the latest results of the SPIN Project and found community features like collective efficacy protect Black youth from stress and substance use in their home neighborhood. However, when Black youth are outside their home neighborhood, these same community features may be experienced as stressful and are related to subsequent substance use. Read "Examination of the Relationship Between Daily Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Marijuana Use Among Black Youth: Does the Location of the Perception Matters?".