National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches

Assessing Program Implementation

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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.

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  • Document Number: TR-750-DOJ
  • Year: 2010
  • Series: Technical Reports

Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Chapter Two

    SSPA Program Background

  • Chapter Three

    Assessment of the SSPA Program Contexts

  • Chapter Four

    Assessment of the SSPA Interventions

  • Chapter Five

    Assessment of the SSPA Implementation Processes

  • Chapter Six

    Assessment of Other Aspects of the SSPA Programs

  • Chapter Seven

    Conclusions and Implications for Similar Interventions

  • Appendix A

    Process and Training Evaluation Methodology

  • Appendix B

    SSPA Program Descriptions

  • Appendix C

    SSPA Training Evaluation

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.

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