As practitioners and researchers, our emphases on evidence-based practices often focus our attentions on services and systems. But it is often the people we hire — more than the curriculum and services we develop — that participants say have the greatest positive impact on their lives.
Last summer, I wrapped up a yearlong benchmarking studyof highly effective reentry programs that had received funding from the U.S. Department of Labor to provide employment-focused reentry services to youth and adults. Analyzing nearly 10 years’ worth of outcome data, we identified the most consistently high-performing organizations and then studied them to learn what might drive their success in connecting justice-involved youth and adults with training and employment and preventing recidivism.
[For more of this story, written by Vanessa Marks, go to http://jjie.org/2016/12/12/eff...ehind-the-practices/]
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