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This detailed evaluation delves into the successes and challenges of the Youth Inclusion Programme's impact on neighbourhood renewal and youth crime. It analyzes the processes, performance indicators, and impacts of the program through a variety of methods, including surveys, fieldwork, and stakeholder interviews.
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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 • The Areas and Projects • Identification Procedures • Engagement and Assessment • Interventions
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?
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
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?