Summer Jobs Reduce Violence Among Youth Facing Barriers to ...

Summer Jobs Reduce Violence Among Youth Facing Barriers to Opportunity in the United States ... summer job program on violent crime rates among youth.

Summer Jobs Reduce Violence among Disadvantaged Youth

The Crime Lab designs, tests, and scales data-driven innovations to improve the public sector's response to the dual challenges of America's gun violence crisis ...

The Effects of Summer Jobs on Youth Violence

If so, it might seem logical that policies to enrich job prospects among disadvantaged youth should reduce their involvement in crime and violence. Empirically, ...

Summer Youth Employment Programs for Violence Prevention

Chicago's SYEP reduced violent arrests by 43% among participants 16 months post-program completion. Sara B. Heller, “Summer Jobs Reduce Violence ...

Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth

Risk of Violent Crime Victimization During Major Daily Activities. October 2012 · Violence and Victims. A.M. Lemieux ...

Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth - PubMed

Assignment to a summer jobs program decreases violence by 43% over 16 months (3.95 fewer violent-crime arrests per 100 youth).

New Study Demonstrates how Providing Jobs to Young People ...

What she found was that, compared to the control group, violent crime decreased 43 percent among the two groups of students who received jobs. There were 5.1 ...

How youth summer jobs can help drive down crime and launch ...

How youth summer jobs can help drive down crime and launch careers. People in ... “Because disadvantaged youth face multiple obstacles in obtaining early work ...

Summer jobs for youth can curb violence. Chicago business leaders ...

Closing the summer jobs gap would allow thousands more youth and their communities to benefit from the financial support and reduction in violent crime that ...

Chicago summer jobs program for high school students dramatically ...

A public summer jobs program for high school students from disadvantaged neighborhoods in Chicago reduced violent crime arrests by 43 ...

Sara Heller Releases Study on the Effectiveness of Youth ...

In both experiments, the program dramatically reduces violent-crime arrests, even after the summer. It does so without improving employment, ...

Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth (Heller ...

The combined treatment groups had significantly fewer violent crime arrests in the 16 months following random assignment, compared with students in the control ...

Background and Federal Efforts on Summer Youth Employment

activities, primarily for low-income youth with barriers to employment; however, the laws' ... Heller, “Summer Jobs Reduce Violence Among Disadvantaged Youth,” ...

Expanding Summer Employment Opportunities for Low-Income Youth

... reducing youth violence—indicate that the program led to a large decrease in violent-crime arrests (Heller 2014). A study of a summer jobs ...

Interventions for Urban Youth: Can Summer Jobs and - Penn IUR

Interventions for Urban Youth: Can Summer Jobs and Mentorship Really Affect Violent Crime Rates? ... When policymakers discuss what to do about ...

Bullet-proof Jobs: Summer Employment May Help Stem Youth ...

Researchers found that the “at-risk youth” who had engaged in the summer work “experienced a 51 percent drop in arrests for violent crime” in ...

Congress Must Bolster Youth Employment Programs To Secure ...

Mentorships and the added income that youth employment programs provide are often linked to reductions in crime rates.38. The previously ...

Supporting Summer Youth Employment Programs

Featured Grant Opportunity Longitudinal Research on Delinquency and Crime (Funding Opportunity) ... The WIA of 1998 enacted a formula-funded youth program serving ...

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Rethinking the Benefits of Youth Employment Programs

First, we note that because DFSS built the program and recruiting strategy mainly to reduce youth violence, the impact on violent-crime arrests was the primary ...