Abstract meeting the ongoing, urgent, unmet needs of uvalde residents after the robb elementary school shooting," responds to thenational institute of justice invitation to address the needs of the…

The University of Texas at Austin has been awarded a $1,000,000 Project Grant from the National Institute of Justice under the Antiterrorism Emergency Reserve program (CFDA 16.321). This 24-month grant will fund research to better understand and address the critical, persistent needs of the Uvalde, Texas community following the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School. The key products and services to be delivered include:

1. Completing a community needs assessment through interviews with directly impacted adults in Uvalde
2. Reviewing literature and community data to further define the impact of mass shootings
3. Evaluating a bilingual online resource guide for cultural relevance, utility, and reach
4. Evaluating a best practice model for a community navigator to support urgent needs

This work aims to capture lessons learned for coordinating a culturally grounded, trauma-informed response in a rural community, develop community resource guides, and produce scholarly publications. The University of Texas at Austin is partnering with Uvalde stakeholders to implement this research project.

Abstract meeting the ongoing, urgent, unmet needs of uvalde residents after the robb elementary school shooting," responds to thenational institute of justice invitation to address the needs of the victims of mass shootings with knowledge and tooldevelopment. The project builds directly upon ongoing research CO-led with community members in uvalde, texas, a ruralborder community that experienced a mass school shooting on may 24, 2022. Uvalde is an under resourced city with limitedinfrastructure, now coping with the consequences of collective trauma. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 19% or almost 60MILLION people lived in a rural community. Like uvalde, rural communities have limited resources, unique dynamics, and asmaller degree of separation among residents. This trauma-informed and iterative action research seeks to better understandand address the critical, persistent needs of the uvalde victims (survivors, families, and community); offer objective, independent, and evidence-based knowledge; and develop practical tools to address the needs of victims of massshootings. The university of texas at austin researchers aim to support evidence-driven healing and social well-being whilehighlighting uvalde as a national leader in developing an exemplary crisis model for rural communities. This work willadvance science, policy, and direct practices on culturally grounded and place-based needs before and after mass shootings.while any community would struggle to recover from a tragic school shooting, the magnitude of unmet needs in uvaldeis especially critical due to an illfitting response designed with limited community engagement and without context neithersocial nor cultural or regional demographics in mind. This project will implement and evaluate five program goals, eightcorresponding objectives, and 25 deliverables. Over 24 months, in solid partnership with uvalde community stakeholders, researchers will: (1) complete phase III of the community needs assessment through interviews with directlyimpacted adults; (2) understand 2 further and redefine who is impacted by mass shootings through a review of literatureand community needs assessment data; (3) systematically evaluate a bilingual online resource guide for culturalrelevance, utility, and reach; and (4) evaluate best practice model for a navigator who will support urgent communityneeds. This project will produce: a playbook to capture lessons learned for elected officials and community leaders oncoordinating a culturally grounded, traumainformed response to mass shootings in a rural community; two community resourceguides, one for the community in general and one for families directly impacted; and scholarly publications andconference presentations. CA/NCF