Outcomes and Achievements
A Focus on Effectiveness
The ultimate goal of all of our programs is to prepare youth to be successful as adults. To that end, we track educational success, work experience, family reunification, housing stability, avoidance of arrests, and other measures that indicate how well youth are achieving goals. Following are some of our recent outcomes:
Annual Report
Click here to read our 2016 Annual Report.
The WAY Home
The WAY Home, which provides aftercare for youth leaving CV’s residential treatment center, is evaluated through quarterly reports documenting success in school, success in getting and keeping a job, housing stability and avoidance of incarceration. We also document program inputs such as the number of phone and face-to-face contacts with mentors, counselors’ case loads, and levels of services provided such as housing supports and tutoring.
Click here for WAY Home Outcomes
Multisystemic Therapy Program
The Children’s Village has been operating MST programs for the past 10 years to keep families with troubled youth together safely — whether youth are returning to families from juvenile facilities or at risk of being placed. CV is currently the largest provider in New York State of this nationally recognized evidence-based program and is actively supporting fellow agencies in the practice of MST.
A report recently compiled shows impressive results for 896 cases served by CV’s MST Programs. 89% of youth remained in the community (out of placement), 89% were arrest free, and 83% were in school/working.
The STEP Program
The System Therapy Empowerment Program (STEP) provides intensive supportive and aftercare services to young people in Westchester County who are leaving residential foster care and returning to their families and communities. The fundamental purpose of STEP is to make these transitions successful by empower families to build and maintain a positive environment and engage community resources that promote health, emotional well being and family cohesion.
In the past five years, the STEP program has had a success rate of 95%, with only 5% of youth being returned to residential care. Prior to STEP being introduced, 23.5% of youth were returned to care in the first year.
Family Finding
Sometimes The Children’s Village mission of keeping families together involves reestablishing family connections. Our Family Finding Department works to reconnect the children in our care with at least one family member (parents, naturally, but even grandparents, stepparents, siblings, cousins, etc.), first by combing through years of child welfare records and then broadening the search in other ways when necessary (read about one successful search here).