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PART IV(a) ,~ PROGRAM GOAL, OBJECTIVE(S) & ACTIVITIES Overall Goal: Youthworks, in collaboration with the Juvenile Court will provide intensive casework for "deep-end, unruly youth" and their families, who with the staff, collaboratively develop a diversion plan focused on keeping the youth at home, in the community and out of the juvenile justice and child weffare systems. O~ectives: 1. In 2002-03 Youthworks will provide intensive casework, based on a collaboratively developed plan, for 60 deep-end unruly youth who are at risk of being removed from their home with eighty-five percent (85%) of the youth remaining in the custody of their parents. 2. In 2002-03 Youthworks will provide intensive casework, based on a eoilaboratively developed plan, for 60 deep-end unruly youth who are at risk of being removed from their home with sixty-five percent (65%) having no further involvement in the juvenile justice system. 3. 3. In 2002-03 Youthworks will provide intensive casework, based on a collaboratively developed plan, for 60 deep-end unruly youth who are at risk of being removed from their home with sixty percent (60%) of the youth having no placement interventions (attendant care, psychiatric placement, emergency foster or group placement). Measurement(s) to be used to determine accomplishment of Objectives: Youthworks has an extensive, computerized management information system that can provide all of the demographic, service, and outcome data needed to evaluate the effectiveness of the project. Youthworks has a judicial order from the East Central Judicial Court allowing for the exchange of information between the court and Youthworks. Data which will be available for analysis include the demographics of youth served, the types of service, amounts of services provided and both general & specific outcomes Measurable accomplishments will include: number and types of citations at intake and citations following intake number, types & length of placement interventions approved by parents number, type & length of placements authorized by the court number of families and youth receiving, and the hours of, assessment services number of families and youth receiving, and hours of, supporting services number youth & families receiving mediation, and the hours of mediation provided number of youth receiving, and the hours of, peer support, group &/or individual counseling number of youth enrolled in Turnabout and the length of enrollment number of families receiving, and the hours of, crisis intervention & family counseling number of youth and parents participating in KEYS and/or anger management training With an extensive database in place, questions essential to the evaluation of this program can be answered. These include: "What services are most effective in diversion?", "Which interventions are used and how frequently are they used?", "How long must services be provided?", "What level of service seems appropriate?", "What will diversion cost?", "How effective is the program in preventing fiarther citations?" How effective is the program at preventing longer term out-of-home placement and the termination of parental custody?