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?’
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Overview of Methods
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Youth Inclusion Management Information
System (YIPMIS)
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Quarterly returns < > Feedback reports to
projects
Programme Level Data
Surveys of 72 projects
Focused Fieldwork in 20 YIPs
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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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The Areas and Projects
Identification Procedures
Engagement and Assessment
Interventions
Descriptive:
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The Neighbourhood
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The projects
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Staffing and management structures
Identification, Engagement and
Assessment
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Deprivation Indices; crime, population, area.
Formal/informal tools and processes
Interventions
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What, why, when and for whom?
Process
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ID 50 Process
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Engagement
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Outreach, letter, home visits
Assessment
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How often, which agencies, how many
young people
Formal tools/informal tools
Intervention Planning
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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.
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Performance Indicators (ii)
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Quarterly Feedback of PIs
Individual Project Reports
 Discussed with YJB and National
Supporters
 Remedial Action Suggested
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Quarterly Programme Level Bulletin
Impact
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RDS-NOMS Standards for Impact
Studies
Randomised Control Trials ???
 Matched Comparison Groups
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• Heckman Two Stage Regression Analysis
Conclusion
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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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