Massachusetts Juvenile Justice PFS Initiative
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- Massachusetts Juvenile Justice PFS Initiative
- General overview
- Location
- Involved organisations
- Outcome metrics
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- Massachusetts Juvenile Justice PFS Initiative
- General overview
- Location
- Involved organisations
- Outcome metrics
- SyROCCo reports
- Other resources
- Spreadsheet of data
General overview
Stage of development: Implementation
Policy sector: Criminal justice
Date outcomes contract signed: Jan 2014
Start date of service provision: Jan 2014
Capital raised (minimum): USD 18m
Intervention
The initiative aims to reduce recidivism and improve employment outcomes for young men at high risk of re-offending. The four-year intervention consists of two years of intensive engagement and two years of follow-up, and includes four basic elements: outreach to young men by Roca staff; intensive case management; life skills, educational, prevocational, and employment programming; and connection to work opportunities with community partners. Roca helps young men change their behaviors while learning how to go to work, beginning with subsidized employment opportunities and transitioning when ready into full-time positions with employer partners.
Target population
The project is serving young men aged 17-24 who are in the Boston, Chelsea or Springfield areas and (i) leaving the juvenile justice system, (ii) are involved in the probation or parole system, or (iii) are leaving the custody of the Suffolk, Essex, Hampden, and Middlesex Houses of Correction or the state's Department of Correction.
Location
Country
- United States
Service delivery locations
- Boston, Chelsea, and Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
Involved organisations
Outcome metrics
- Decrease in incarceration - no fee. Decrease in total number of days that participating young men spent in prison relative to control group by 5%.
- Decrease in incarceration - minimum. Decrease in total number of days that participating young men spent in prison relative to control group by 10%.
- Decrease in incarceration - first level. Decrease in total number of days that participating young men spent in prison relative to control group by 25%.
- Decrease in incarceration - second level. Decrease in total number of days that participating young men spent in prison relative to control group by 40%.
- Decrease in incarceration - third level. Decrease in total number of days that participating young men spent in prison relative to control group by 55%.
- Increase in job readiness. Participant engaging with a Roca youth worker 9 or more times in each quarter.
- Increase in employment. Participant is employed as compared to similar young men who are not in the program in each quarter.
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