| Purpose : |
The YARD project will employ a comprehensive (wrap-around) approach that addresses multiple risk factors in the target population. Outreach, targeting of youth at high risk, individualized assessments and service plans, monitoring and case management, engagement with families to support at-risk youth are included in the program. Interventions will target such risk factors as: substance abuse issues, poor school attachment and performance, lack of recreational activities and criminalized parents or siblings. Indicators of success will include a reduction in the risk factors and increase in protective factors; a decrease in interest in the gang lifestyles and increase in interest in pro-social activities. |