The Residential Care Consortium

The Consortium works to assist to advance the interests of underprivileged, at-risk, and disadvantaged children, young adults, and their families. To fulfill this mission, the Consortium is dedicated to promoting residential care as a vital component of the youth care continuum through demonstration programs, outcome measurement and evaluation and dissemination of this work to the field of youth care.

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Successful Program Implementations

Author: US Department of Justice
Date: January 4, 2009

Identifying evidence based practices to bring into your organization is considered a critical first step in improving both practice and funding. But, discovering what works does not solve the problem of program effectiveness. Implementing programs properly is the next and most important success to program effectiveness. The Blueprints Team looked at nine programs implemented across 147 sites. This DOJ bulletin presents the results of this process evaluation, identifying critical components of program implementation.

Documents and Links

  1.  Blueprints OJJDP.pdf

Experience, coupled with the ability to change and grow, are but two reasons why the partners of the Consortium, having successfully met the needs of children for hundreds of years, will also succeed in extending the same quality of care and service to their families.

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