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
251programs
Fewer people hurt, streets that feel safer to live on
500 stated outcomes
Mental health/wellbeing
245programs
Feeling better, coping better, staying well
529 stated outcomes
Educational engagement
221programs
Back at school, staying at school, learning something
364 stated outcomes
Cultural connection
188programs
Knowing who you are, and being held by your own people
359 stated outcomes
Employment/training
149programs
A trade, a ticket, a job that lasts
303 stated outcomes
Diversion from justice system
136programs
Never entering the system in the first place
190 stated outcomes
Family connection
99programs
Families holding together, and holding their young people
112 stated outcomes
Reduced recidivism
91programs
Not coming back through the same door
220 stated outcomes
Reduced detention/incarceration
68programs
Fewer children locked up
133 stated outcomes
System cost reduction
43programs
The same result for less public money
114 stated outcomes
Reduced substance use
28programs
Less alcohol and fewer drugs in a young life
20 stated outcomes
Healing/restoration
17programs
Repairing what was broken, between people
57 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.