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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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Definition of Evidence This database contains information on evidence-based programs recommended by:
These entities have evaluated evidence supporting each program’s claims of effectiveness, and have then made recommendations for (or against) the use of the program based on their findings. Most of these entities consider the highest level of evidence to be effectiveness data emerging from experimental studies utilizing random assignment. Most of the programs that appear in this database have also published evaluation evidence in peer-reviewed professional journal articles. The results of most entities' evaluations are represented in a number of lists that appear on the World Wide Web. These entities rated a program as either a:
Only those programs with high levels of evidence of effectiveness (as defined above) are listed in the database. Most of these entities list numerous Promising Programs that do not have evaluation research demonstrating the highest levels of evidence of effectiveness. A cost of utilizing these stringent criteria for inclusion is that some effective programs may not appear on the database. However, it is also true that these criteria will eliminate all programs from the database that do not have compelling evidence of effectiveness. Future revisions on the database will begin to create criteria for including programs with compelling non-experimental evaluation data. It is hoped that the database will assist you in establishing the evidence-base for programs in your district, community or county. Please note that the Center for Learning Excellence is not endorsing any given program that appears, but simply gathering and presenting existing public information in a more usable fashion. When available, this list of programs includes:
In addition to program outcomes, these effects are listed for the effectively treated population (i.e., for whom the program has worked). This information was gathered from abstracts and/or summaries supplied by the National Registry of Effective Practices, the original published findings of a particular program, or from a program’s Web site. It should also be noted that not all of these findings have been replicated by independent, outside research. Additionally, there is very little follow-up information to determine how long a program's effect lasts in a treated population. For example, an intervention or prevention program designed to keep middle-school aged children from smoking may keep them from smoking for one year, but the effect may wear off by the time they graduate from high school.
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