Research Projects Archive
Evaluating The California Wellness Foundation's Violence Prevention Initiative
Peter Greenwood, Jeffrey Wasserman, and Lois Davis
The California Wellness Foundation's Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) is a multi-faceted 5-year effort involving policy, leadership, community action, research and evaluation components. RAND has been awarded a 3-year evaluation grant. The evaluation is designed to serve several functions. It is to describe and document the activities of all the Initiative's participants and measure the extent to which they achieve their goals. It is also to assess the impact of the VPI on public policies and organizational and individual behaviors related to youth violence and on the level of youth violence itself. Finally, the evaluation is designed to provide timely feedback to VPI participants regarding the effectiveness and impacts of their activities.
(Completed May 2000)
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