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）：该项目的目的是为人类服务专业人员开发、制作和评估基于能力的多媒体电子学习课程。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来接受高质量和全面的继续教育课程。用户将通过其所在机构或单独注册该课程，以增进对脱节青少年、帮派和帮派相关活动的了解。该课程旨在满足新员工和复工培训要求。在第一阶段，我们将为处理与脱节青少年相关的六个模块中的第一个模块制定内容和措施，涉及评估帮派相关风险和家庭参与所需的信息。重点将是帮助公共服务人员制定与涉及帮派的家庭和儿童合作的策略。迄今为止，在公共服务领域，针对潜在或活跃帮派成员的高危青少年以及向这些人及其家人提供有效服务的力度还不够。在许多社区内，大多数（如果不是全部）面向失联青年和帮派的服务都是由执法部门提供的，现有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，该课程就可以随着新的社区、州和联邦信息和政策的变化而轻松更新。该项目将开发和测试美国电子学习课程中脱节青年和帮派的第一个模块。评估的目的是了解如何使用培训材料，确定成功的领域和改进的机会。因此，该项目的评估计划侧重于满意度和知识的基本问题。 满意度 - 涉及对材料、网站的外观和感觉、材料使用过程中的参与程度以及电子学习课程中导航的便捷性的满意度。将结合开放式问题和李克特量表（具有明确锚点的七点量表）来评估满意度、材料的相关性和知识获取，以评估与满意度相关的情感维度。 知识获取——知识将被客观和主观地衡量。将通过针对能力/学习目标的简短直接评估来客观地衡量知识。研究中将采用带有对照组设计的前测/后测。在第二阶段，我们将开发五个剩余的相关学习模块，并为未来的电子学习课程纳入尖端的用户/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：将开发拟议的培训模块，以提高与青少年及其家人一起工作的专业人员的能力。这些模块专门计划提供结合成人学习和体验理论的实践培训，以解决有能力的稳定劳动力的短缺问题。拟议的电子学习课程将直接解决越来越多需要服务的失联青少年以及缺乏直接与儿童和家庭合作的合格人力资源的问题。