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，生产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，六模型的电子学习课程，为用户提供基于家庭或代理商的技术，以获得高质量和全面的继续教育课程。用户将通过其家庭机构或单独注册该课程，以提高他们对与之脱离的青年，帮派和与帮派有关的活动的了解。该课程将旨在满足新工人和复发培训要求。在第一阶段，我们将针对与评估帮派相关风险和家庭参与所需的信息有关的六个模块中的第一个制定内容和措施。重点将是帮助人类服务人员制定与涉及的团伙的家庭和儿童合作的策略。迄今为止，在人类服务领域内，潜在或活跃的帮派成员的高危年轻人的目标很差，并为这些个人及其家人提供有效的服务。在许多社区中，执法部门进行了有限的合作和参与，大多数（即使不是全部）针对脱节的年轻人和帮派进行的服务。一旦在Web-Format中开发和测试，随着新社区，州和联邦信息和政策的变化，该课程可以轻松更新。该项目将开发和测试美国电子学习课程中脱节的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，确定成功的领域以及改进的机会。因此，该项目的评估计划着重于满意和知识的基本问题。 满意度 - 与满足材料的满足感，网站的外观和感觉有关，使用材料期间的参与程度以及在电子学习课程中易于导航。满足感，材料的相关性和知识增益将通过开放式问题和李克特量表（具有定义锚定的七点尺度）的组合来评估，该量子构建了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。知识将通过简短的直接评估客观地衡量，该评估的重点是能力/学习目标。该研究将使用带有比较组设计的预测试/后测试。在第二阶段，我们将开发剩下的五个相关的学习模块，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，这些方法将源于人类服务交付领域中消费者开发的概念。 公共卫生相关性：将开发拟议的培训模块，以增强与年轻人及其家人合作的专业人员的能力。这些模块是专门计划提供实用培训的，该培训结合了成人学习和体验理论，以解决有能力的稳定劳动力的短缺。拟议的电子学习课程将直接解决越来越多的需要服务的未连接的年轻人，以及缺乏直接与儿童和家庭合作的合格人类服务人员。