Evaluating Immigrant Youth Support Programs

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The following paper presents the first part of a paper that outlines a hypothetical program evaluation. The program being evaluated serves immigrant children between the ages of 14 and 18 years old and their families, with the goal of providing direct counseling, immigrant youth support groups, and youth legal immigration service referrals. This first segment will include a description of the agency, program, and the client base that they serve. It presents a researchable evaluative question and describes the needs of the Hispanic clients served. A Place for Hope and Restoration The program that is being evaluated is the Youth Service Bureau (YSB), which provides its services to Bentley Middle School one day a week. Some school district …show more content…

This is an outcome evaluation that is researchable once the program objectives are established. The Road to Aspires program objectives are to increase the level of empowerment for students and their families who are trying to assimilate in both the school, city, and Nation. There will be multiple indicators used to measure these program objectives. Hispanic children are the fastest growing segment of U.S. population (Takanishi, 2004). Hispanic immigrant children suffer from high drop-out rates from school; involvement in high risk, maladaptive behaviors; and perpetuation of multi-generational poverty (Kohler & Lazarin, 2007;Takanishi, 2004). Facilitating immigrant students’ processing of their lives’ journeys, the poverty, and violence they have endured and assisting them to acculturate to the multi-cultural (Anglo dominated) society, engage and feel connected to their new schools and become active, legally documented residents/citizens of their communities. More than 65% of Aspires participants will graduate from their respective middle, junior and high …show more content…

The criteria used to gauge this success are if 85% of the youth are experiencing a significant decrease in disciplinary action by the school in 6 months after the program completion. Finally the program will use the M.E.A.S.U.R.E technique. MEASURE is an acronym standing for Mission, Elements, Analyze, Stakeholders, Unite, Reanalyze, and Educate the helps the school social worker to connect to the mission of the school and the program. Mission is the school rules and how they believe it should be followed by the students. Elements are part of the school report cards; analyze those critical data elements to see where the program can positively impact them. Identify internal and external stakeholders who can collaborate to impact the data; Unite with these stakeholders to form partnerships and form strategies; and Reanalyze to determine which strategies worked, be redesigned, or discarded. “Finally, the social worker and the school present their successes and educate a wide audience as to how the program contributed to moving critical data elements” (Bowers,

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