National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Implementation
Sponsor
This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and was conducted under the auspices of the Safety and Justice Program within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment and under RAND Health’s Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program.
Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
7-2010
Subjects
Safe Start Promising Approaches (Program) -- Evaluation, Children and violence -- United States -- Prevention, Children -- Services for -- United States -- Evaluation, Child welfare -- United States
Abstract
Children's exposure to violence (CEV) — including direct child maltreatment, witnessing domestic violence, and witnessing community and school violence — can have serious consequences, including a variety of psychiatric disorders and behavioral problems, such as posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. Fortunately, research has shown that interventions for CEV can substantially improve children's chances of future social and psychological well-being. Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) was the second phase of a planned four-phase initiative focusing on preventing and reducing the impact of CEV, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). OJJDP selected 15 program sites across the country that proposed a range of intervention approaches, focused on multiple types of violence, included variations in ages and age-appropriate practices, and would be implemented in different settings. Each site participated in a national evaluation, conducted by the RAND Corporation. The evaluation design involved three components: a process evaluation, an evaluation of training, and an outcomes evaluation. This report presents the results of the first two evaluations. It describes the program and community settings, interventions, and implementations of the 15 SSPA programs for the first two years of implementation (through March 2009), as well as the training evaluation results.
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10849
Citation Details
Schultz, Dana, Lisa H. Jaycox, Laura J. Hickman, Anita Chandra, Dionne Barnes-Proby, Joie Acosta, Alice Beckman, Taria Francois and Lauren Honess-Morreale, National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Implementation, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, TR-750-DOJ, 2010. As of January 23, 2014: http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR750
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