By Laura Packard Tucker, Amy Dworsky, and Molly (Mayer) Van Drunen, Chapin Hall at The University of Chicago, June 2020
The Youth Transitions Partnership (YTP) blends service coordination, intensive case management, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) to help transition age youth in foster care in Alameda County, CA engage with support systems and improve their outcomes. YTP was funded by the Children’s Bureau Youth At-Risk of Homelessness (YARH) grant program. This brief describes the YTP model, the results of the formative evaluation undertaken by Chapin Hall researchers, and the Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) process that was used to support YTP’s implementation.
What We Did
We conducted a formative evaluation of YTP that addressed questions about implementation, fidelity to the model, program engagement, and short-term outcomes. We used enrollment data, which tracked potentially-eligible youth and their progression through the recruitment process; YTP program data, which provided information about youth assessments, action plans, goals, and services received; county child welfare administrative data; and qualitative data collected via interviews and focus groups with YTP coaches, administrators, child welfare workers and youth participants. We focused on the 98 youth who were active in YTP from March 2016, when the program began, through April 2019.
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