Results presentation for Directions Program Effectiveness Study Results

1. The Crisis Residential Center’s Direction Program Effectiveness Study

3. Katie Clemons-Handy

4. Dr. Sarah Keller

7. Literature Review What it’s all about

8. Working with At-risk Youth Reasons for Runaway and Homeless Youth Support and nurturing Single parent homes Abuse and neglect Substance use / abuse Common Problems Academic Positive social networks Mental & physical health issues

9. Programs & At-risk Youth Milieu environment Individual Group Family Referrals

10. About the CRC YFA Connections Safety-net for Spokane General population Three programs

11. Methodology What we did

12. Methodology The Plan: Archive data from files. Demographics, programmatic info, hx & GAIN-SS Parent surveys Quantitative & Qualitative. Client surveys Post GAIN-SS In-depth interviews Reality: Archive data from files. Demographics, programmatic info. & hx. Parent surveys Qualitative only.

13. Data Analysis Data from files Descriptive Analyses Demographic variables Programmatic variables Client history & issues Cross tabulation Chi Square Qualitative info Look for commonalities and use to support/discuss findings/recommendations.

14. }{ Findings }{}{ Limitations}{}{}{ Implications What it means

15. AGE The majority of the youth, 31, were 14 years old. This is followed by 16 year olds, 17 and 15 year olds 28, 25, and 25 respectively. Thirteen year olds constituted the least at 19.

16. Length of Stay The average stay or mean for the youth was 190.30. In addition, there was the same number youth who spent more than 187 hours and spent less than 187 hours. The most frequent length of stay was 1.5 hours.

17. Gender The majority of the youth were female at 67 and the next was highest was male at 58. There was 1 individual who said that they felt that they were a woman instead of a man.

19. Response rate

20. Outdated information

21. Biases-social bias

22. Not being able to support our hypotheses

23. Only sent surveys to legal guardian addresses

25. }{ Correlative data }{}{ Recommendations }{}{}{ Future research }{}{}{}{ Conclusions What to take away

26. Correlative data Homelessness & School Status n = 21 yes homeless Problems: Irregular, dropped out, suspended, and expelled Total: 33.4% Pearson Chi-Square: 0.351

27. Correlative data Homelessness & Mental Health Issues n = 21 yes homeless n = 35 yes mental health issues Problems: Issues related to the mental health status of youth or family members Total: 23.8% Pearson Chi-Square: 0.000 (a. 5 cells (55.6%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is .13.)

28. Correlative data Family Sessions & Household Dynamics n = 120 yes household dynamics Problems: issues related to interactions and interrelationships within the household (for example, frequent arguments between household members By the numbers: 0 hours -> 26.7% || 0.01-2 hours -> 26.7% || 2.01-4 hours -> 24.2% || 4.01- 6 hours -> 21.7% || Over 6.01 hours -> 0.8% || Pearson Chi-Square: 0.758

29. Correlative data Family Sessions & Drug Use and Abuse n = 31 yes Drug Use and Abuse Pearson Chi-Square: 0.907

30. Recommendations File / data collection Aftercare Follow-up More training regarding therapy More individual time Substance use / abuse

31. Future Research In-depth interviews More surveys Secondary paper

32. Conclusion New questions Poor and dynamic data Expected data continuation

33. Questions ?’s