First Project Directors' Conference - Replication of Project New Pride, Reel 4

• NCJ Number: 84025
• Author(s): B Howell; C Knowles
• Date Published: Unknown
• Length: 0 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Publication Format: Film
• Publication Type: Program/Project Evaluation
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. Videotape, 56 minutes, color, 1 inch. The replication conferences were held in Washington, D.C., and Haddonfield, N.J. For the complete series, see NCJ-84023-84037.

Annotation

The National Institute of Juvenile Justice mandates that all programs under its jurisdiction, including Project New Pride, must be evaluated. The Institute is trying to incorporate within the programs themselves an evaluation component. Agency efforts to that end (evaluation criteria, evaluator training) are explained by the Institute director and evaluation project deputy director.

Abstract

The evaluation's objective is to identify what program components are succeeding in terms of type of program and offender. The evaluation has a process and an impact component and focuses on the overall program, with more intensive evaluation during field site visits. The Institute evaluators have different skills so that they can handle specific types of information requests from the programs. New Pride in-house evaluators will be trained to operate the computer system which is tied to the Institute's; their projects can then generate their own statistics. Audience questions follow the presentation.