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Preliminary Findings from the Assessment of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention

Preliminary Findings from the Assessment of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention. November 1, 2011 Jeffrey Butts Caterina Roman Kathy Tomberg Caitlin Taylor Research and Evaluation Center Dept of Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice Temple University.

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Preliminary Findings from the Assessment of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention

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  1. Preliminary Findings from the Assessment of the National Forum on Youth Violence Prevention November 1, 2011 Jeffrey Butts Caterina Roman Kathy Tomberg Caitlin Taylor Research and Evaluation Center Dept of Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice Temple University

  2. Assessment Components Underway Half finished Not started First wave completed • Review of proposals, plans, and reports from the 6 cities and their federal partners • Visits to the 6 cities; interviews with officials, professionals, and community members • Interviews with key federal partners • Online survey in the 6 cities at 3 points in time

  3. Community Assessment Survey Powered by Survey Monkey Survey: Wave 1 • Launched in June 2011 • Invitations emailed or mailed to 393 potential respondents • Valid responses received from 245 • Total response rate was 62 percent

  4. Response rates varied among the six Forum cities: Community Assessment Survey Powered by Survey Monkey Boston 73% Chicago 44% Detroit 69% Memphis 59% Salinas 67% San Jose 59%

  5. Overall Violence Percent Reporting Violence “Increase” in last 12 Months

  6. Violence Associated with Guns Percent Reporting Violence “Increase” in last 12 Months

  7. Violence Associated with Drugs Percent Reporting Violence “Increase” in last 12 Months

  8. Violence Associated with Gangs Percent Reporting Violence “Increase” in last 12 Months

  9. Top 10 Challenges Across All Six Forum Cities

  10. * Individual respondents may belong to more than one subgroup.

  11. Percent Agreeing That Their City’s Strategic Plan Has These Elements “Involved” Respondents

  12. “Aware” Respondents Percent Agreeing

  13. “Aware” Respondents Percent Agreeing

  14. “Aware” Respondents Percent Agreeing

  15. “Aware” Respondents Percent Reporting Any Contact with Federal Partner Agencies

  16. Percent Saying Organization has Increased the Following in the “Past Few Months” All Respondents

  17. Percent Saying Organization has Increased the Following in the “Past Few Months” All Respondents

  18. Percent Saying Organization has Increased the Following in the “Past Few Months” All Respondents

  19. Upcoming Tasks • Continue to schedule site visits • Two more rounds of online surveys • Schedule interviews with key federal partners • Create deliverables • - First report in March 2012

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