Please contact us and we’d be happy to check your eligibility again! Our focus groups in Year 1 may fill up quickly but we will be conducting many more interviews later on. Unfortunately, our key informant group will only be held during year 1 and we will not have additional opportunities in years 2 or

We can only involve you once in the study. However, if you like, we can keep your name and phone number in case there's a way that you could help out later (this would not involve being a study participant again). We're also happy to send you a summary of the study results at a

If you are an English speaking, Black male between the ages of 18 and 24 who has experienced violence, and if you live close enough to one of our focus group or interview locations, you are eligible for the study. The first thing you will do is answer some questions over the phone about yourself

The first year of the study involves nine focus groups in urban, suburban, and rural Illinois and interviews throughout Illinois. Focus groups are in-depth interviews with a small number of carefully selected people brought together to discuss a topic. We will also be holding one key informant meeting in Chicago with Black women who reside

You can reach the study principal investigator Dr. Henrika McCoy at hmccoy@uic.edu or (312) 413-5027. You can reach the UIC Survey Research Laboratory study coordinator Isabel Farrar at (312) 996-2414 or via the study e-mail at survive@uic.edu. For concerns about the study or questions about your rights as a research participant, please call the UIC