Roca's High Risk Youth Intervention Model - Implementation and Impact Evaluation
CJI is conducting a multi-year implementation and impact evaluation of Roca, Inc.’s High Risk Youth Intervention Model. The implementation and impact evaluation is documenting Roca’s model and assessing its efficacy in consistently moving high risk young people toward the organization’s stated outcomes.
Roca is an outcomes-driven organization that helps young people to change their behavior and shift the trajectories of their lives. Roca serves very high risk young people in Chelsea, Revere and East Boston, Massachusetts, with the goal of helping these disengaged and disenfranchised young people move out of violence and poverty.
The High Risk Youth Intervention Model is based on cognitive-behavioral intervention to enable young people to move toward the outcomes of economic independence and living out of harm’s way. Roca’s intervention model is based on a framework for change (the Stages of Change) used in medical and mental health fields and includes:
- Relentless outreach through transformational relationships (an intensive case management model)
- Stage-based programming toward economic independence (life skills, educational and pre-vocational, and employment programming) and,
- Work with engaged institutional partners.
Read CJI's literature review Interventions for High-Risk Youth: Applying Evidence-Based Theory and Practice to the Work of Roca
