title: A national evaluation of Safe Schools/Healthy Students: outcomes and influences.
abstract: The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative has awarded over $2 billion in grants to more than 350 school districts in partnership with local mental health, law enforcement, and juvenile justice agencies. To estimate the impact of grantee characteristics, grant operations, and near-term outcomes in reducing violence and substance use, promoting mental health, and enhancing school safety, logged odds ratios (LORs) were calculated contrasting Year 3 with Baseline performance from grantee-provided data on seven outcome measures. After comparing grantee performance across outcomes and outcomes across grantees, the LORs were entered as dependent variables in a series of meta-regressions in which grantee characteristics, grant operations, and near-term outcomes were tested after controlling for pre-grant characteristics. Findings indicate that the SS/HS Initiative significantly improved most outcomes, that within-grantee performance varied greatly by outcome, and that random-effects meta-regression appreciably decreased the variance available for modeling. The approach demonstrates that the SS/HS Initiative is effective and that locally collected performance data can be used to estimate grantee success in improving youth outcomes.
authors: Battelle Centers for Public Health Research and Evaluation, 2111 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 900, Arlington, VA 22201, USA. derzonj@battelle.org
authors: James H
authors: JH
authors: Derzon
authors: Ping
authors: P
authors: Yu
authors: Bruce
authors: B
authors: Ellis
authors: Sharon
authors: S
authors: Xiong
authors: Carmen
authors: C
authors: Arroyo
authors: Danyelle
authors: D
authors: Mannix
authors: Michael E
authors: ME
authors: Wells
authors: Gary
authors: G
authors: Hill
authors: Julia
authors: J
authors: Rollison
mesh_terms: D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D005380:Financing, Government; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control; D035846:Law Enforcement; D008603:Mental Health; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012044:Regression Analysis; D017751:Safety Management / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D012572:School Health Services / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D012574:Schools / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014754:Violence / Q000517:prevention & control*