Tag: evaluation

2010-Current John Jay

National Evaluation of Community-Based Violence Prevention Program

The City University of New York’s John Jay College of Criminal Justice worked with Temple University to design and implement a comprehensive process and outcome evaluation of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Community-Based Violence Prevention Demonstration Program (CBVP). The program replicated practices associated with some of the most effective recent innovations in violent crime prevention and control, such as Chicago’s CeaseFire and the Boston Gun Project. Continue reading National Evaluation of Community-Based Violence Prevention Program

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2010-Current John Jay

Assessing the Implementation and Efficacy of Reclaiming Futures in North Carolina

Six communities in North Carolina collaborated to bring the Reclaiming Futures approach to agencies serving the needs of youthful offenders with drug and alcohol problems. The project worked intensively with the Reclaiming Futures National Program Office in Portland, Oregon and North Carolina sites selected by the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust to develop and demonstrate the Reclaiming Futures model in North Carolina communities. Continue reading Assessing the Implementation and Efficacy of Reclaiming Futures in North Carolina

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Monographs & Reports

Cost-benefit Analysis of Reclaiming Futures

The findings of the national evaluation of Reclaiming Futures suggest that the 10 communities involved in the pilot phase of the initiative did effectively change the operations of their service-delivery systems.The extent of these changes varied, but the evaluation results show that the systems for responding to justiceinvolved youth in most of the communities improved over time.The critical question for this study is about a cost-benefit threshold. If we infer the extent of individual behavior change from the size and direction of reported system change, and if we can estimate the number youth affected by such change, are the economic benefits of those changes sufficient to justify the costs of the reform initiative? … According to this study, the answer is “yes.” Continue reading Cost-benefit Analysis of Reclaiming Futures

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