Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
4-2-2014
Abstract
Teen Empowerment has succeeded in developing and maintaining a program design for engaging at-risk youth and reducing youth violence that can serve as a model for other communities. Its systematic approach to selection, engagement, and transformation provide the foundation for individual achievement and community change. While the study contains substantial evidence of Teen Empowerment’s ability to produce positive results for youth at risk and for community wide change in patterns of adolescent behavior, there is a need to implement a more ambitious evaluation design to conduct the longitudinal and controlled studies needed to better understand the Model’s mechanisms of effectiveness and to further quantify its capacity to achieve outcomes for individuals and community-wide transformation.
Community Engaged/Serving
Part of the UMass Boston Community-Engaged Teaching, Research, and Service Series. http://scholarworks.umb.edu/engage
Recommended Citation
Schutt, Russell, "Teen Empowerment Program Evaluation Empowering Youth and Adults as Agents of Positive Change" (2014). Office of Community Partnerships Posters. 261.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/ocp_posters/261
Included in
Civic and Community Engagement Commons, Educational Sociology Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons