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Results for early intervention programs
4 results foundAuthor: Hilferty, Fiona Title: The Evaluation of Brighter Futures, NSW Community Services' Early Intervention Program: Final Report Summary: This report presents the findings of the evaluation of the NSW Community Services‘ early intervention program, Brighter Futures. Brighter Futures is an innovative program, which has changed the practice of child abuse prevention services in NSW. The program has broken new ground nationally and internationally by developing an evidence-based service model; requiring caseworkers to use validated instruments for assessment and reporting; and being delivered through a cross-sectoral partnership between Community Services and non-government organisations. It is also innovative in specifically targeting families who are at most risk of entering the child protection system. The Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales was commissioned to evaluate the program shortly after its state-wide rollout. SPRC worked in collaboration with researchers from the Centre for Health and Economics Research and Evaluation (CHERE) at the University of Technology, Sydney, who undertook the Economic Evaluation. The results summarised in this document and detailed in the main report present a picture of program success. However as a consequence of evaluation timing, and the innovative nature of the program, teething problems associated with implementing a new program were identified. Evaluation findings were limited by the narrow timeframe with which we had been able to observe participant families following their exit from the program. Further tracking of participant families is possible as an avenue for future research. Key findings for each component of the evaluation are provided throughout the report. Details: Sydney: University of New South Wales, Social Policy Research Centre, 2010. 305p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 10, 2010 at: http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/brighter_futures_evaluation4.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Australia URL: http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/docswr/_assets/main/documents/brighter_futures_evaluation4.pdf Shelf Number: 120442 Keywords: Child Abuse and Neglect (Australia)Child MaltreatmentChild ProtectionEarly Intervention Programs |
Author: Murphy, Candy Title: From Justice to Welfare: The Case for Investment in Prevention and Early Intervention Summary: For the small but significant number of children who come into contact with the criminal justice system, it can too easily become the defining event in their young lives. The repercussions of contact with the criminal justice system extend beyond the individual, to societal-wide implications in terms of the structure of communities and the financial costs borne by the State. We know that a criminal justice system based around punishment is an ineffective and costly way to deal with offending behaviour that is often rooted in identified social problems. Approaches to crime that are centred on prevention and early intervention seek instead to build protective factors, reducing the potential negative impacts on a child’s development of unfavourable external circumstances, thereby playing a role in reducing crime and criminality. The prioritisation of prevention and early intervention requires not only a shift in resources, but also a fundamental sea change in how society thinks about the concept of justice. Ultimately, this report champions the possibility of reducing crime - and the costs of crime - through prevention and early intervention, and a redistribution of resources to tackle the root causes of crime. The study examines the role of early intervention and prevention in reducing crime and criminality, drawing on national and international literature. It begins by reviewing the available literature on the characteristics of those involved in crime and spells out the known risk and protective factors in relation to criminality. It then draws out the key findings from the literature on the effectiveness and impact of early intervention and prevention on reducing criminality internationally to inform a wide ranging debate on this important topic in Ireland. Details: Dublin: Irish Penal Reform Trust, 2010. 70p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 15, 2011 at: http://www.iprt.ie/files/From_Justice_to_Welfare_-_The_Case_for_Investment_in_Prevention_and_Early_Intervention.pdf Year: 2010 Country: Ireland URL: http://www.iprt.ie/files/From_Justice_to_Welfare_-_The_Case_for_Investment_in_Prevention_and_Early_Intervention.pdf Shelf Number: 121015 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (Ireland)Early Intervention ProgramsJuvenile Offenders |
Author: Campo, Monica Title: Children affected by domestic and family violence: A review of domestic and family violence prevention, early intervention and response services Summary: This report sets out the findings of research into domestic and family violence (DFV) prevention, early intervention and response for children aged 0-8 years. The research was commissioned and funded by the NSW Department of Family and Community Services. It contributes to the development of the knowledge base on DFV prevention, early intervention and response strategies and the needs of children, and supports the implementation of aspects of the National Plan to Reduce Violence Against Women and Their Children (National Plan) and the NSW Government's It Stops Here: Standing Together to end Domestic and Family Violence in NSW (It Stops Here) strategy. We acknowledge the need for holding perpetrators, not women and children, accountable for DFV, and the necessity of ongoing primary prevention of DFV addressing men, however as the key focus of this report is on prevention, early intervention and response strategies for children, it is beyond the scope of this report to engage in a detailed discussion of perpetrator programs or primary prevention activities targeting men. However, there is a further study, also commissioned by the Department of Family and Community Services, and undertaken by a team overseen by Professor Moira Carmody at the University of Western Sydney, that focuses on prevention targeting men and boys. The research had two areas of focus: synthesising the literature on the impacts of DFV on children, and on the evidence for primary prevention and early intervention strategies for children aged 0-8 years; and identifying best practice approaches for primary prevention, early intervention and response for children aged 0-8, and identifying the extent to which these needs are met within existing DVF primary prevention, early intervention, and response approaches in Australia. The research took place in conjunction with two other studies; a study examining DFV prevention initiatives for at-risk women, also conducted by AIFS, and a study that focused on primary prevention initiatives for men and boys. The latter study was conducted by a team at the University of Western Sydney led by Professor Moira Carmody. Details: Melbourne: Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2014. 127p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 9, 2014 at: https://www.women.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/file/0014/300623/PDF-6_Final_Report_Children_affected.pdf Year: 2014 Country: Australia URL: https://www.women.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/file/0014/300623/PDF-6_Final_Report_Children_affected.pdf Shelf Number: 134020 Keywords: Children Exposed to ViolenceDomestic ViolenceEarly Intervention ProgramsFamily Violence (Australia)Violence Against Women |
Author: Crow, Iain Title: Does Communities that Care work? An evaluation of a community-based risk prevention programme in three neighbourhoods Summary: In the mid-1990s the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) funded the Communities that Care (CTC) prevention initiative. This early intervention programme targets children living in communities and families that are deemed to put them at risk of developing social problems. The CTC approach focuses on specific geographical areas and involves bringing together local community representatives, professionals working in the area and senior managers responsible for service management. Participants are given training and provided with evidence of the levels of risk and protection in their community. From this they design an action plan that seeks to enhance existing services or introduce new ones likely to reduce risk. Although it has become international, CTC has its origins in the USA. In commissioning the CTC programme in the UK, JRF had to develop an infrastructure to facilitate the implementation of the Communities that Care approach. This involved four main elements: • the transference and anglicising of techniques developed in the USA to a UK setting • setting up an independent charitable organisation responsible for running the CTC programme in the UK • funding three demonstration projects in the UK • funding an evaluation of these projects. This is the second evaluation report on the first three CTC demonstration projects. The first report was based on interim findings and focused on the early development and set-up of the programme. This is the final report of the five-year evaluation. In making the assessment of CTC we incorporate findings from the first interim report while looking in more detail at how the demonstration projects have developed and what impact they had between January 2000 and July 2002. Everything the reader needs to know about the findings of the evaluation is available in this report. In the remainder of this chapter we explain what the Communities that Care programme is about, and say how we set about evaluating the three demonstration projects. Chapters 2, 3 and 4 describe what happened in each of the three areas, what was delivered as a result of CTC activity and what changes, if any, took place as a result of CTC demonstration projects. In the final chapter we discuss the main findings of the evaluation, recommendations for CTC and lessons for future policy implementation in the area of early intervention and prevention for children and their families. Details: York, UK: Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2004. 102p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 28, 2015 at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/1859351840.pdf Year: 2004 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/1859351840.pdf Shelf Number: 129953 Keywords: Community Participation Community-Based Programs Early Intervention ProgramsParenting Programs |