MHB – National Evaluator
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Transcript MHB – National Evaluator
Experiences of the Youth
Inclusion Programme
Neighbourhood Renewal and Youth
Crime
20th 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?’
Performance Indicators: ‘Navigation
tools for the projects’
Impact: ‘Did it work?’
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
Four Dimensions of YIP
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3.
4.
The Areas and Projects
Identification Procedures
Engagement and Assessment
Interventions
Descriptive:
The Neighbourhood
The projects
Staffing and management structures
Identification, Engagement and
Assessment
Deprivation Indices; crime, population, area.
Formal/informal tools and processes
Interventions
What, why, when and for whom?
Process
ID 50 Process
Engagement
Outreach, letter, home visits
Assessment
How often, which agencies, how many
young people
Formal tools/informal tools
Intervention Planning
To address risk factors
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.
Performance Indicators (ii)
Quarterly Feedback of PIs
Individual Project Reports
Discussed with YJB and National
Supporters
Remedial Action Suggested
Quarterly Programme Level Bulletin
Impact
RDS-NOMS Standards for Impact
Studies
Randomised Control Trials ???
Matched Comparison Groups
• Heckman Two Stage Regression Analysis
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?