Apr 2024
Supporting Student Re-Engagement: A Qualitative Exploration of the First Year Implementation of Back to Our Future
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This report shares findings on the implementation of Back to Our Future, a state-funded, district-led, evidence-informed effort to re-engage disconnected students at an elevated risk for gun violence involvement.
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Choose to Change® (C2C®) Program Guide
This program guide is intended for community-based organizations working to fill gaps in services and reach an underserved population of youth impacted by violence and trauma.
Building safer communities: Behavioral science innovations in youth violence prevention
This policy brief highlights results from a large-scale randomized controlled trial that evaluated the impact of Choose to Change® (C2C®) on participants’ criminal justice involvement.
Unpacking the Impacts of a Youth Behavioral Health Intervention: Experimental Evidence from Chicago
This working paper details results from a study of Choose to Change® (C2C®), a trauma-informed cognitive behavioral therapy and intensive mentoring program developed by nonprofits Brightpoint and Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP).
Improving Programming in Juvenile Detention: The Impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods Youth Outreach Forums
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial of a youth outreach forums program run in the Cook County Juvenile Detention Center (JTDC) by the Northern Illinois Project Safe Neighborhoods Task Force.
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Expensive effort to get high-risk kids back in school is off to a slow start
Read about the ‘Crime Labs’ work to help shape a Chicago Public Schools program working to reengage disconnected youth.
How many out-of-school, out-of-work youth did Chicago reengage last school year?
Chalkbeat covers the ‘Crime Labs’ evaluation of Back to Our Future, a Chicago Public Schools initiative providing support services for disengaged youth to get them reconnected and back on track to complete their education.
