Disconnected Youth and Gangs in the United States

美国失联的青少年和帮派

• 批准号: 8052632
• 负责人: William Vincent Griffin
• 金额: $ 18.59万
• 依托单位: INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCES, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8052632
• 关键词: Active Learning; Address; Adult; Affective; Area; Businesses; Child; Collaborations; Communities; Continuing Education; Development; Dimensions; Educational Curriculum; Elements; Evaluation; Family; Feedback; Focus Groups; Future; Home environment; Hour; Human; Independent Living; Individual; Internet; Knowledge; Law Enforcement; Learning; Locales; Location; Measures; Multimedia; Music; Online Systems; Phase; Policies; Preparation; Process; Program Development; Qualifying; Reaction; Research; Resources; Risk; Roundup; Rural; Sampling; Self Perception; Services; Site; System; Technology; Testing; Text; Training; United States; Update; Visual; Work; Youth; base; comparison group; design; experience; gang; meetings; member; phase 1 study; programs; prototype; satisfaction; sound; theories; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this project is to develop, produce, and evaluate a competency-based multimedia, eLearning course for human service professionals. The overall program will be used to deliver a 21/2 -hour, six-module, eLearning course on the web, providing users with a home or agency-based technology for receiving a high quality and comprehensive continuing education course. Users will register for the course through their home agencies or individually to advance their knowledge of disconnected youth, gangs, and gang related activities. The course will be designed to meet new-worker and recurrency training requirements. In Phase I, we will develop content and measures for the first of six modules on dealing with disconnected youths in relation to information needed to assess gang related risks and family involvement. The emphasis will be on helping human service workers develop strategies for working with gang involved families and children. To date, within the human services field, there has been poor targeting of at-risk youths who are potential or active gang members and provision of effective services to these individuals and their families. Within many communities, most if not all services geared towards disconnected youth and gangs are undertaken by law enforcement with limited collaboration and involvement of existing community-based human services delivery groups. Once developed and tested in web-format, the course can be easily updated as new community, state and federal information and policies change. The project will develop and test the first module of a Disconnected Youth and Gangs in the US eLearning course. The purpose of the evaluation is to understand how the training materials are used, identify areas that are successful and opportunities for improvement. Accordingly, the evaluation plan for this project focuses on fundamental issues of satisfaction and knowledge. Satisfaction - pertains to satisfaction with the materials, the look and feel of the website, level of engagement during use of the materials, and ease of navigation within the eLearning course. Satisfaction, relevance of material, and knowledge gain will be assessed with a combination of open-ended questions and Likert scales (seven-point scales with defined anchors) constructed to rate affective dimensions associated with satisfaction. Knowledge gain - knowledge will be measured objectively and subjectively. Knowledge will be measured objectively by a short, direct assessment focused on the competencies/learning objectives. A pretest/posttest with comparison group design will be used in the study. In Phase II, we will develop five remaining related learning modules and incorporate a cutting edge user/product business development approach for future eLearning courses that will originate with concepts developed by consumers within the field of human services delivery. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed training modules will be developed to enhance the competencies of those professionals who work with youths and their families. The modules are specifically planned to provide practical training that incorporates adult learning and experiential theories to address the shortage of a competent stable workforce. The proposed eLearning course will directly address the increasing number of disconnected youths needing services and the lack of qualified human services staffs that work directly with children and families.

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目的目的是开发，制作和评估基于能力的多媒体，为人类服务专业人士的电子学习课程。整个计划将用于在网络上提供21/2小时，六个模块的电子学习课程，为用户提供基于家庭或机构的技术，以获得高质量和全面的继续教育课程。用户将通过他们的家庭机构或个人注册课程，以提高他们对断开连接的青年，帮派和帮派相关活动的认识。该课程的设计将满足新工人和经常性工人的培训要求。在第一阶段，我们将为六个模块中的第一个模块制定内容和措施，这些模块涉及评估与帮派有关的风险和家庭参与所需的信息。重点将是帮助人类服务工作者制定与涉及帮派的家庭和儿童合作的策略。到目前为止，在人类服务领域，没有很好地针对潜在或活跃的帮派成员的高危青年，也没有向这些人及其家庭提供有效的服务。在许多社区内，针对脱离社会的青年和帮派的大多数服务，如果不是全部的话，都是由执法部门提供的，现有的社区人类服务提供团体的合作和参与有限。一旦以网络格式开发和测试，该课程可以很容易地更新为新的社区，州和联邦信息和政策的变化。该项目将开发和测试美国在线学习课程中断开连接的青年和帮派的第一个模块。评估的目的是了解培训材料的使用情况，确定成功的领域和改进的机会。因此，该项目的评价计划侧重于满意度和知识的基本问题。 满意度-涉及对材料的满意度、网站的外观和感觉、材料使用过程中的参与程度以及在线学习课程中的导航难易程度。将采用开放式问题和Likert量表（具有定义锚点的七点量表）相结合的方式评估满意度、材料相关性和知识获取，以评定与满意度相关的情感维度。 知识增益-知识将被客观和主观地衡量。知识将通过一个简短的、直接的评估来客观地衡量，重点是能力/学习目标。本研究将采用对照组设计的前测/后测。在第二阶段，我们将开发其余五个相关的学习模块，并为未来的电子学习课程采用最先进的用户/产品业务开发方法，这些课程将源于消费者在人类服务交付领域开发的概念。 公共卫生相关性：将制定拟议的培训单元，以提高从事青年及其家庭工作的专业人员的能力。这些单元是专门计划提供实际培训，其中包括成人学习和经验理论，以解决缺乏合格的稳定劳动力的问题。拟议的电子学习课程将直接解决越来越多需要服务的脱节青年以及缺乏直接与儿童和家庭合作的合格人力服务人员的问题。