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Results for after-school programs
4 results foundAuthor: Swaner, Rachel Title: Drifting Between worlds: Delinquency and Positive Engangement Among Red Hook Youth Summary: Starting in the fall of 2007, the Red Hook Community Justice Center, a community court located in Red Hook, Brooklyn, implemented an experimental after-school program designed to change positive perceptions of youth crime that were thought to be held by many young people residing in the Red Hook Houses, a local public housing project. Known as Youth ECHO, the program engaged teenagers from the Houses in designing community education campaigns for their peers around problems that were identified by the participants themselves: drug dealing and dropping out of school. Using guerilla marketing techniques, the young people designed unique ways to get their core messages – “Dealing Drugs: It’s Not Worth It” and “Fast Money is Trash Money. Get it in now. Get it back later. Stay in School” – to other Red Hook teenagers. This report describes findings from a study that sought to evaluate the program and, more broadly, to understand how and why young people in Red Hook and, perhaps, beyond think about and engage in delinquent behavior. The research involved a multi-method approach. Data were collected between January 2008 and June 2009 through individual interviews with 23 Red Hook youths, and through focus groups, surveys, and program observations of Youth ECHO and the 21 youths involved over its two program years. These 44 teenagers ranged in age from 13 to 18, 60% were female, 91% lived in Red Hook, and 79% lived in public housing. Details: New York: Center for Court Innovation, 2010. 20p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 9, 2010 at: http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/Youth_ECHO.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://www.courtinnovation.org/_uploads/documents/Youth_ECHO.pdf Shelf Number: 120426 Keywords: After-School ProgramsDelinquency PreventionJuvenile Delinquency |
Author: Goldschmidt, Pete Title: The Long-Term Effects of After-School Programming on Educational Adjustment and Juvenile Crime: A Study of the LA.s BEST After-School Program Summary: Widespread interest in the impact of after-school programs on youth development has increased dramatically over the past several years. Although research has investigated the short-term impact of programs on academic and social student development, there is limited research on the long-term effectiveness of after-school programs in lowering rates of juvenile crime. This study bridges that research gap and presents results from an evaluation of the effectiveness of LA's BEST - the largest urban-based, after-school program in Los Angeles County - on long-term academic achievement growth and juvenile crime. This research tracked the academic and juvenile crime histories for a sample of 6,000 students, 2,000 students participating in LA's BEST and 4,000 matched control students not participating in LA's BEST. We used multilevel propensity scores to match control to treatment students and applied multilevel longitudinal models and multilevel survival analyses methods to analyze the data. Results indicate that students' engagement in the program is a strong mediating factor of program effectiveness. The key element of positive program impact is student engagement, as indicated by a medium to high average monthly attendance, and by significant adult contact of at least one additional adult (volunteer) per day. Student participants, who attended sites with a higher average of adult volunteerism, demonstrate modest achievement gains compared to students who did not participate in LA's BEST. Likewise, students who consistently attended LA's BEST demonstrate a substantively significant reduction in the juvenile crime hazard compared to participants with inconsistent attendance, and compared to students in the control group. Benefit-cost analyses indicate that results are sensitive to assumptions regarding the value of avoided costs from prevented crimes. Details: Los Angeles: University of California, National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007. 177p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 19, 2014 at: http://www.lasbest.org/download/dept-of-justice-final-report Year: 2007 Country: United States URL: http://www.lasbest.org/download/dept-of-justice-final-report Shelf Number: 132087 Keywords: After-School ProgramsCost-Benefit AnalysisCrime PreventionDelinquency PreventionEducational ProgramsJuvenile Delinquency |
Author: Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria Title: Mentoring, Educational Services, and Economic Incentives: Longer-Term Evidence on Risky Behaviors from a Randomized Trial Summary: his paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term impacts of an after-school program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards to attend program activities, complete high-school and enroll in post-secondary education on youths' engagement in risky behaviors, such as substance abuse, criminal activity, and teenage childbearing. Outcomes were measured at three different points in time, when youths were in their late-teens, and when they were in their early- and their late-twenties. Overall the program was unsuccessful at reducing risky behaviors. Heterogeneity matters in that perverse effects are concentrated among certain subgroups, such as males, older youths, and youths from sites where youths received higher amount of stipends. We claim that this evidence is consistent with different models of youths' behavioral response to economic incentives. In addition, beneficial effects found in those sites in which QOP youths represented a large fraction of the entering class of 9th graders provides hope for these type of programs when operated in small communities and supports the hypothesis of peer effects. Details: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010. 63p. Source: Internet Resource: IZA Discussion Paper 4968: Accessed August 28, 2014 at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4968.pdf Year: 2010 Country: United States URL: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4968.pdf Shelf Number: 133159 Keywords: After-School ProgramsAt-Risk YouthDelinquency PreventionMentoring (U.S.) |
Author: Weinstein, Meredith B. Title: The Benefits of Recreational Programming on Juvenile Crime Reduction: A Review of Literature and Data Summary: As parents, as communities, and as a nation we are interested in fostering the positive social, emotional, and physical health and development of youth. How adolescents spend their leisure time undoubtedly impacts their developmental trajectory. As such, a focal point of examination for those in the fields of youth development and delinquency prevention is how adolescents spend their leisure time in the hours after school. Miller (2003) reminds us that the most influential experiences of youth are often the people, places, and activities that occur outside of school. Accordingly, "afterschool programs can play a key role in engaging youth in the learning process by providing opportunities to explore interests, gain competency in real world skills, solve problems, assume leadership roles, develop a group identity with similarly engaged peers, connect to adult role models and mentors, and become involved in improving their communities"(p.2). A question that emerges when examining the role of leisure and youth development is whether afterschool programs, particularly recreation based programs, are effective in promoting positive youth development. Further, are these programs a cost-effective means to reduce delinquency? If so, how can the outcomes of recreation based afterschool programs be monetized to show the value gained by society through a reduction in crime and delinquency? Details: Ashburn, VA: National Recreation and Parks Association, 2014. 345p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 23, 2017 at: http://www.nccu.edu/formsdocs/proxy.cfm?file_id=2907 Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://www.nccu.edu/formsdocs/proxy.cfm?file_id=2907 Shelf Number: 146886 Keywords: After-School ProgramsAfterschool Programs At-Risk Youth Delinquency Prevention Leisure Activities Recreational Programs Sports |