Transcript Selective Intervention Working Group: Considerations for

Selective Intervention
Working Group:
Considerations for the
Logic Model
Reporting to the Plenary Session of the
VII Meeting of the CICAD Expert Group
on Demand Reduction
Ottawa, Sept. 14, 2005
Program Overview: Psychosocial
Intervention for High-Risk Youth
Objectives: Prevent and address drug use and related human
development for high-risk and vulnerable youth
Theoretical bases: Resilience, Competencies, Empowerment
Settings: The street, schools and alternative educational
settings, outpatient clinics and other facilities, family
residence, community spaces, key workplace locations, key
recreation or peer gathering locations for targeted youth
Involves: Street educators, clinical team, academic educators,
social workers, skills trainers
Program Logic Model
Program Logic Model for Selective Prevention
Activities
Outreach
Assessment
& Referral
Family & Individual
Counseling
Immediate
Outcomes
Intermediate
Outcomes
Ultimate
Outcomes
Job
training
Informal ed. /
Literacy
Access to
alternative services
Street children, their families and relatives
Reach
Outputs
Drug education and
Life Skills Training
Number and nature of :
Youth contacted.
Youth enrolled.
Outreach workers trained.
Outreach methods used.
Number and nature of:
Assessments and
referrals provided.
Individual service
plans produced.
Youth are more aware
of availability of
services.
Increased number of
youth enrolled and using
services.
Increase in number of
appropriate assessment
and successful referrals.
Number and nature of
individual and family
counseling sessions
conducted.
Improved individual and
family decision-making.
Increased knowledge of
and improvement in
communication and
parenting skills.
Individuals re-inserted
into families.
Reduction in demand for
illicit drugs and harmful
substances by youth
Number and nature of:
Resource materials
prepared.
Sessions held on drug
education and life
skills.
Increased knowledge and
awareness of drug use and
abuse, related
consequences., and healthy
alternatives.
Increased capacity to make
healthy decisions and
resolve conflicts.
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Number and nature of:
People assessed and enrolled
in training.
Trainings held.
Trainers who received
training.
Referrals made.
Number of youth
assessed, enrolled, and
completing training.
Increase in job-related
skills and work ethics
and values.
Increased job
placement and
retention.
Reduction in the health, social
and economic costs
associated with substance
use/abuse by youth
Level (intensity and
frequency of
service/programs
delivered.
Nature of programs
provided.
Increased level of
literacy/education
achieved.
Increased use of free
time in productive or
healthy recreational
activities.
Considerations for
Activities
Outputs
• Outreach
• Assessment and referral
• Family and individual
counseling
• Drug education and life
skills training
• Job training
• Informal ed./literacy
• Alternative activities
• Whether nature of
referrals belongs
within the substance
abuse logic model, if
these are services
beyond the
implementer’s
control
• Issue of
sensitization
activities
Considerations for Program Reach
• Includes family members of targeted
individuals
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