About the Safe Start Evaluation Project
Children who are exposed to violence can experience negative social and psychological effects both at the time of the exposure and throughout their life. Finding effective programs to improve children's chances of future social and psychological well being is the goal of this RAND project funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
OJJDP has selected and funded 15 programs in cities around the country that are adapting evidence-based interventions to ameliorate the negative impacts of violence on children ages 0 to 12. The programs take a variety of different forms, with some providing services to children only while others serve both children and their families or primary care givers. The programs are targeted to various exposure levels of domestic violence, including exposure to community violence and experience of direct abuse.
RAND's evaluation examines the implementation and outcomes of these programs, both individually and collectively.
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Project Reports
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes — 2012
Safe Start Promising Approaches (SSPA) is the second phase of a community-based initiative focused on developing and fielding interventions to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence. This report shares the results of SSPA, which was intended to implement and evaluate promising and evidence-based programs in 15 program sites across the country.
Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches — 2011
RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Implementation — 2010
Documents the program and community settings, interventions, and implementations of 15 programs across the country that provide interventions for families in which children have been exposed to violence. The 15 programs were part of Safe Start Promising Approaches, an initiative aimed at building knowledge about the effectiveness of specific intervention strategies intended to reduce the harmful effects of children's exposure to violence.
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