Outcomes
What is anyone actually trying to change?
Every program on JusticeHub can tell you what it does. Fewer can tell you what it is for. These are the twelve things programs say they set out to change, and how many programs name each one.
Read this before the numbers
These are intentions, not results. A program appearing under “reduced recidivism” has said that is what it is for. It has not shown that it worked. For what has actually been evaluated, go to the evidence library. For sourced community figures, go to the communities.
Community safety
259programs
Fewer people hurt, streets that feel safer to live on
649 stated outcomes
Mental health/wellbeing
253programs
Feeling better, coping better, staying well
579 stated outcomes
Educational engagement
225programs
Back at school, staying at school, learning something
489 stated outcomes
Cultural connection
197programs
Knowing who you are, and being held by your own people
440 stated outcomes
Employment/training
155programs
A trade, a ticket, a job that lasts
359 stated outcomes
Diversion from justice system
137programs
Never entering the system in the first place
261 stated outcomes
Family connection
103programs
Families holding together, and holding their young people
125 stated outcomes
Reduced recidivism
95programs
Not coming back through the same door
263 stated outcomes
Reduced detention/incarceration
72programs
Fewer children locked up
165 stated outcomes
System cost reduction
45programs
The same result for less public money
126 stated outcomes
Reduced substance use
28programs
Less alcohol and fewer drugs in a young life
27 stated outcomes
Healing/restoration
18programs
Repairing what was broken, between people
71 stated outcomes
Where this comes from
Each program record carries the outcomes it names and, where recorded, the method it says it would use to measure them. Programs whose records were machine-generated and rejected in review are excluded. A program can appear under several types, because most real work is trying to change several things at once.