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Results for youth violence prevention
5 results foundAuthor: University of Connecticut. Center for Applied Research in Human Development Title: 2007-09 Process Evaluation Report: Governor's Urban Youth Violence Prevention Grant Summary: This report provides details of a process evaluation that was conducted by the Center for Applied Research in Human Development (CARHD) at the University of Connecticut for the State of Connecticut’s Office of Policy and Management. The evaluation was conducted with 19 youth programs located in urban centers within Connecticut. One of the principal functions of a process evaluation is the use of evaluation data to inform the policies and practices employed by a youth program. The process evaluation that was conducted with Connecticut’s youth programs consisted of several components. First, attendance data were collected from all of the programs involved in the evaluation. Second, data were collected from the youth at the programs on their perceptions of “supports and opportunities” present within the programs. Third, summaries of these perceptions were shared with the directors of the programs, who then worked on an improvement plan. Finally, one year after the initial data were collected, youth were re‐surveyed to determine whether the improvement objectives had been achieved. The improvement plans were developed in consultation with the Youth Development Training and Resource Center (YDTRC) at Yale. Personnel from the YDTRC worked with staff and youth teams from each of the 19 programs to develop specific goals and objectives. They developed implementation strategies for the targeted goals, and they involved both staff and youth in the execution of these strategic attempts to improve the quality of the programming offered through each of the 19 programs. This report consists of several parts: ♦ An overview of the evaluation (Section I); ♦ Description of youth program operation and young people’s attendance data (Section II); ♦ Description of youth across the 19 programs (Section III); ♦ Results of the process evaluation, presented for each program involved in the evaluation (Section IV); ♦ A project summary (Section V). Details: Hartford, CT: Connecticut Office of Policy and Management, 2009. 159p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 13, 2011 at: http://www.ct.gov/opm/lib/opm/cjppd/cjjjyd/jjydpublications/guyvp_2007-2009_final_report_9-19-09.pdf Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: http://www.ct.gov/opm/lib/opm/cjppd/cjjjyd/jjydpublications/guyvp_2007-2009_final_report_9-19-09.pdf Shelf Number: 121326 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (Connecticut)Urban AreasYouth ProgramsYouth Violence Prevention |
Author: Dunworth, Terence Title: Y2 Final Report: Evaluation of the Los Angeles Gang Reduction and Youth Development Program Summary: In April 2009 the Urban Institute (Washington, D.C), in partnership with Harder+Company (Los Angeles, CA), was contracted by the Office of the Mayor of Los Angeles to conduct a multi-year evaluation of the Mayor’s Gang Reduction and Youth Development Program (GRYD). This is the second report of the evaluation. It builds upon the process and preliminary outcome findings reported in 2010, and extends them through April, 2011. The main report contains detailed analyses of the self-reported changes in the attitudes and delinquent/criminal behaviors of a sample of 902at risk youth enrolled in programs focused on preventing gang-joining, compared to a sample of 248 youth who were referred to the program but were not enrolled. Details: Washington, DC: Justice Policy Center, Urban Institute; Los Angeles, CA: Harder+Company, Community Research, 2011. 72p. Source: Research Report: Internet Resource: Accessed on January 27, 2012 at http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412409-Evaluation-of-the-Los-Angeles-Gang-Reduction-and-Youth-Development.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/412409-Evaluation-of-the-Los-Angeles-Gang-Reduction-and-Youth-Development.pdf Shelf Number: 123840 Keywords: Juvenile DiversionJuvenile OffendersYouth Gangs (Los Angeles)Youth Violence Prevention |
Author: Brash, Rachel Title: Youth Violence Prevention and Reduction: Strategies for a Safer Baltimore Summary: A wide spectrum of strategies has been developed to combat youth violence across the country. Some interventions focus on preventing violent behavior in the first place, while others focus on reducing such behavior after it has developed. Interventions fall into three broad categories: individual-level interventions, neighborhood-level interventions, and gun and police strategies. Individual-level interventions include parent training, prenatal and early childhood interventions, and social-cognitive and behavioral training. Each of these types of intervention has been associated with reductions in antisocial behavior or violence. Neighborhood interventions include comprehensive strategies and school-based programs. Comprehensive strategies—which provide extensive services to youth and their families and aim to improve social and economic conditions within neighborhoods—have gained popularity over the past decade. Because of their complexity, these types of strategies are difficult to implement and evaluate. School-based interventions are widespread and research suggests that they can help reduce risk factors associated with violence and violence itself. Lastly, many cities have implemented strategies involving gun and police policies. Some of these, including intensive patrols targeting gun possession and gun crimes, have been shown to be very promising. The research reviewed has several important implications for Baltimore and cities like it. Because of the wide range of programs that have been found to help reduce violence, cities do not need to focus all their resources on any one type of intervention. City leaders should keep in mind that not all popular programs have been found effective. For example, evidence suggests that mentoring programs help reduce substance abuse, but they have not been shown to reduce violence. As for gun buyback programs, evidence suggests they do not reduce violence either. Public resources might be better spent on other types of interventions. Additionally, policy makers and service providers should keep in mind that evidence suggests that parent training may not benefit families if parents have limited economic resources, mental health problems, little social support, or serious marital conflict. Given that these conditions are prevalent in Baltimore, parenting training may not be a successful strategy. The evidence from Baltimore and the rest of the country suggests that a successful violence prevention strategy for Baltimore should include at least five components: Wrap-around services for youth most at risk of violence; Targeted handgun patrols in high-violence areas; Home visitation by nurses and paraprofessionals; Evidence-based prevention instruction in schools; and, Intensive family therapy. Evidence from Baltimore also suggests that attention needs to be paid to continuity of programming over time, communication and collaboration among agencies and organizations, monitoring of programs, and sharing of information from past and current efforts. If Baltimore addressed these communication and programming issues and implemented, with integrity, the five strategies described above, the city could greatly improve its chances of significantly reducing the number of young people killed in its neighborhoods. Details: Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies, 2004. 23p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 30, 2012: http://ips.jhu.edu/elements/pdf/ips/abell/brash.pdf Year: 2004 Country: United States URL: http://ips.jhu.edu/elements/pdf/ips/abell/brash.pdf Shelf Number: 126518 Keywords: Crime Prevention ProgramsDelinquency Prevention ProgramsGun ViolenceIntervention ProgramsYouth Violence (Baltimore, Maryland)Youth Violence Prevention |
Author: Decker, Scott H. Title: Street Outreach Workers: Best Practices and Lessons Learned. Innovative Practices from the Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative Series Summary: Street outreach workers are an important part of the Senator Charles E. Shannon Jr. Community Safety Initiative (CSI) comprehensive gang and youth violence reduction strategy in Massachusetts1. Street outreach involves the use of individuals to "work the streets," making contact with youth in neighborhoods with high levels of gang activity. These individuals are generally not employed by the criminal justice system agencies but rather are based in community service organizations or other non- governmental agencies. Street outreach workers provide an important bridge between the community, gang-involved youth, and the agencies (whether social service or law enforcement) that respond to the problems of delinquency and gangs. This guide offers information, guidance, and lessons learned from street outreach programs nationally and within the Massachusetts Shannon CSI communities to help guide existing street outreach programs and support communities considering developing new street outreach programs. The guide provides the following information: - History of street outreach worker programs in the United States - Functions and characteristics of street outreach worker programs - Street outreach programs in Massachusetts - Challenges of street outreach worker programs and recommendations for success Details: Boston: Northeastern University, Institute on Race and Justice, 2008. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 25, 2016 at: http://www.mass.gov/eopss/funding-and-training/justice-and-prev/grants/shannon-csi/shannon-pub-4.pdf Year: 2008 Country: United States URL: http://www.mass.gov/eopss/funding-and-training/justice-and-prev/grants/shannon-csi/shannon-pub-4.pdf Shelf Number: 139158 Keywords: Community-Based ProgramsGang ViolenceGangsJuvenile OffendersStreet Outreach ProgramsYouth Violence Prevention |
Author: Edwards, Phil Title: Mediation, Mentoring and Peer Support to Reduce Youth Violence: A Systematic Review Summary: Background - After road traffic collisions and suicide, violence is the greatest threat to life of young people. In England and Wales, 43 young people aged 15 - 24 years died from assault in 2012. These premature deaths are a fraction of the thousands of young people who attend hospital each year with violence - related injuries and who survive to live with scars and psychological trauma. Public health approaches that address attitudinal causes of youth violence, and that intervene early on with at - risk youth, may be effective at reducing youth violence. Objectives - To systematically review violence prevention programmes for young people involved in, or at risk of violence that include a mentoring, mediation or peer - support component. Search methods - To identify eligible studies for inclusion in the review searches were made of: 15 electronic bibliographic databases for published work; grey literature for unpublished work; trials registers for ongoing and recently completed trials; reference lists of the included studies. Selection criteria - Broad inclusion criteria were used to identify eligible studies including any interventions that included contact and interaction with a positive role model. The role model might be a peer (of similar age and/or background), a mentor (someone with more experience, skills and abilities), or a peer mediator who intervenes between youth to prevent retaliation. Study designs included randomised controlled trials (RCT), cluster randomised trials (CRT), controlled before - after (CBA) studies, cohort studies and case - con trol (CC) studies. Participants included perpetrators of violence and those at risk of violence who were aged less than 25 years. Outcomes were carrying a weapon, violence, offending, and health service use due to injury. Crime and self - reported outcomes were included. Data collection and analysis - All studies identified through the search process were imported into EPPI - Reviewer 4 software where screening, full text coding and data extraction took place. Two review authors independently conducted an initi al screening to identify all potentially relevant reports of studies. Full - text reports were obtained and assessed by each review author in EPPI - Reviewer 4 for final inclusion in the review. Disagreements were resolved by discussion with a third review aut hor. Data extracted from included studies were summarised using the 'EMMIE' framework , developed by researchers at the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science: Effect size (how effective is the intervention?), Mechanism (how does the interve ntion work?), Moderators (in which contexts does the intervention work?), Implementation (what is needed to implement the intervention?), and Economics (how much might the intervention cost?). Results - Sixteen studies were identified for inclusion with ni ne evaluating mentoring interventions (2 RCTs, 3 CBA, 3 Cohort/CC, 1 economic evaluation); two evaluating mediation interventions (2 CRT); and five evaluating peer - led interventions (1 CRT, 3 CBA, 1 Cohort). Most studies were conducted in the USA, with one in the UK. Studies were heterogeneous in terms of participants, interventions and outcomes so a meta - analysis was not considered to be appropriate. Mentoring - one RCT found a reduction in numbers of fights and fight injuries after 6 months in assault injured youth (not statistically significant). An analysis of a national cohort found mentored youth were less likely t o report hurting anyone in a fight. Another RCT found no effect on reconviction rates after 2 - year period in persistent offenders. One CBA study found more re - arrests in mentored youth (statistically significant). Another CBA study found fewer criminal con tacts 6 months following release in youth offenders (statistically significant). Mediation - One RCT of mediation in a school - based violence prevention programme found violent behaviours were halved (not statistically significant). One CRT of peer - mediation in schools found no evidence for a reduction in aggressive behaviours (fighting and injuries due to fighting). Peer - support - In schools a CRT found a reduction (not statistically significant) in physically violent acts 2 years following a multi - component programme with a peer - led component. A CBA study found a reduction in aggressive behaviour when a violence prevention curriculum was administered by a teacher with a peer - leader. In a detention facility a CBA study found increased reoffending among high - ri sk youth receiving a multi - component intervention with peer - support (53% intervention vs. 29% of controls; p=0.08); there was no violence outcome. Details: London: College of Policing, 2015. 69p. Source: Internet Resource: What Works: Crime Reduction Systematic Review Series, No. 2: Accessed August 1, 2016 at: http://whatworks.college.police.uk/About/Systematic_Review_Series/Documents/SR2%20Youth_Violence_15Nov15.pdf Year: 2015 Country: International URL: http://whatworks.college.police.uk/About/Systematic_Review_Series/Documents/SR2%20Youth_Violence_15Nov15.pdf Shelf Number: 139928 Keywords: Mediation ProgramsPeer RelationsYouth MentoringYouth ViolenceYouth Violence Prevention |