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Experiences of the Youth Inclusion Programme

Experiences of the Youth Inclusion Programme. Neighbourhood Renewal and Youth Crime 20 th March 2006. A Comprehensive Evaluation. Description : “What the hell is going on out there?” Process : ‘Looks Like A YIP, Sounds Like a Yip. Is it a YIP?’

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Experiences of the Youth Inclusion Programme

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  1. Experiences of the Youth Inclusion Programme Neighbourhood Renewal and Youth Crime 20th March 2006

  2. A Comprehensive Evaluation • Description: “What the hell is going on out there?” • Process: ‘Looks Like A YIP, Sounds Like a Yip. Is it a YIP?’ • Performance Indicators: ‘Navigation tools for the projects’ • Impact: ‘Did it work?’

  3. Overview of Methods • Youth Inclusion Management Information System (YIPMIS) • Quarterly returns < > Feedback reports to projects • Programme Level Data • Surveys of 72 projects • Focused Fieldwork in 20 YIPs • Pen Portraits of projects and neighbourhoods • Intervention Typologies • Progress of young people • Interviews with stakeholders and young people

  4. Four Dimensions of YIP • The Areas and Projects • Identification Procedures • Engagement and Assessment • Interventions

  5. Descriptive: • The Neighbourhood • Deprivation Indices; crime, population, area. • The projects • Staffing and management structures • Identification, Engagement and Assessment • Formal/informal tools and processes • Interventions • What, why, when and for whom?

  6. Process • ID 50 Process • How often, which agencies, how many young people • Engagement • Outreach, letter, home visits • Assessment • Formal tools/informal tools • Intervention Planning • To address risk factors

  7. Performance Indicators (i) • Ensure that 75% of the core group are engaged; • And those engaged receive at least 5 hours of interventions per week. • Reduce arrest rates by some 70%. • Ensure 90% of those engaged are in ‘suitable’ ETE.

  8. Performance Indicators (ii) • Quarterly Feedback of PIs • Individual Project Reports • Discussed with YJB and National Supporters • Remedial Action Suggested • Quarterly Programme Level Bulletin

  9. Impact • RDS-NOMS Standards for Impact Studies • Randomised Control Trials ??? • Matched Comparison Groups • Heckman Two Stage Regression Analysis

  10. Conclusion • Evaluation has provided: • Definitive Report on YIP • Contributed to local performance improvement • Contributed to revision of management guidance • Overall lessons for evaluation of community based initiatives?

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