The Title V Delinquency Prevention Program is a risk-focused program based on the premise that in order to prevent a problem from occurring, the factors that contribute to the development of that problem must be identified and addressed. In your grant application, your community identified the priority risk factors present in your community for juvenile delinquency and other adolescent problem behaviors. With the Forms in this Unit, you will re-visit the priority risk factors that you identified and observe how they have been affected by the Title V Initiative. Please keep in mind that delinquency prevention is a long-term effort and that changes in risk factors and indicators of risk take time. You may not see immediate changes in your data, but that does not necessarily mean that your programs are not working.
Evaluation is an ongoing process.
The data regarding risk factors that you submitted in your grant application's risk assessment will serve as the baseline for completing these Forms. To update your community's risk assessment, you will add data incrementally, over time, to the Forms in this Unit. Risk Factors and Indicator Summary outlines your community's priority risk factors and the indicators of the prevalence of those risk factors. You will complete one copy of Form 3-1 at the end of the first year of the grant period. Tracking Risk Factor Indicators walks you through the creation of a data table and then a graph to present a picture of changes in indicator data over time.