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OutcomesEvaluation Overview and Highlights Roca had an extremely exciting year in the evolution of its evaluation system uniquely designed to honor, respect,
assess, and evaluate the process of change our young people go through over time toward meaningful and sustainable
outcomes and to recognize the time and effort of staff it takes to stay in it with our young people. We have rigorously
stayed on the course of holding ourselves accountable to ensure we are serving our young people in ways that have real
value evidenced by positive results and long term impact. As a result of our commitment to demonstrate that working with very high risk older teens and young adults is not hit or miss, but that when we engage them where they are, physically and developmentally, spend time building trust over years as necessary, and support them to move through stages of behavior change, they can, more often than not, succeed, we are beginning to see some remarkable results. Roca actively served 664 youth and young adults through our High Risk Youth Intervention Model in FY09. While most programs struggle with serving and retaining this population, we don’t lose them:
Of young people in Transformational Relationships (Phase 1 & Phase 2):
Of FY08 & FY09 graduates (Phase 3) of Roca’s HRYI Model assessed, sustained outcomes include:
Roca’s progress in FY09 on our evaluation and performance based management systems for our High Risk Youth Intervention Model has dramatically improved our intentionality and capacity to drive young people toward positive outcomes. This year, Roca made improvements to our customized Efforts Towards Outcomes (ETO) software to track staff efforts, include essential performance indicators, and clarify all data points for participant outcomes directly linked to our theory of change which was developed to move disengaged young people toward long term outcomes including: sustained constructive adult relationships; sustained constructive peer relationships; educational advancement; connection to post secondary and/or vocational training; employment retention; decreased arrests; decreased pregnancy rates for those under the age of 24; increased social and emotional skills. Roca tracks each participant's individual progress toward these outcomes over long periods of time (2‐3 years), with 2
years of follow up tracking to ensure the sustainability of the behavior changes and long term retention of the
outcomes. Roca is working with the Crime and Justice Institute (CJI) on an implementation and impact evaluation to
demonstrate our model as an evidence based intervention that consistently moves high risk young people toward these
outcomes. The Schneider Institute at Brandeis University and Abt Associates are also partners in the evaluation.
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“Our programs are the vehicles we use to engage our young people. They are the tools we use to build the self-confidence these kids need to turn their lives around.” ![]() |