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For Practitioners in the Health and Human Services, Education, Mental Health, Child and Family Service, Juvenile Justice, and other Social Service Systems that seek to change youth behaviors. |
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Cost Effectiveness Data Cost effectiveness data is available for a limited number of programs. Cost effectiveness is determined by using available data on program effectiveness and converting the reduction of problem behaviors into dollar values based on economic measures of how much society values certain outcomes (e.g., how much we spend to keep ourselves safe from harm, how productive a member of society is when they are a drug user versus how productive one is who abstains, etc.). This information is then broken down by program participant, giving us values for how much it costs to implement a program per student and what the expected societal benefit is per student. Numbers are weighted in favor of some kinds of programs because this is strictly an economic study—concerned only with cost-benefit data on a societal level. Thus, numbers are biased in favor of violence prevention, as socially we value not being the victims of violent crime more so than, say, being exposed to smoking. Information on cost effectiveness was taken from Benefits and Costs of Prevention and Early Intervention Programs for Youth by the Washington State Institute for Public Policy. |
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