
Featured resources and reports:
Assessment of Disproportionate Minority Contact in Juvenile System
Study uncovers disparities in youth detention; prompts initiative to implement new "risk assessment" evaluation
When Dakota County was looking to reduce the number of youth in detention, they teamed with Wilder Research to examine racial disparities. The Wilder study found Black youth represented 3 percent of the county's population, but 29 percent of the youth at the detention center.
Learn more about disparities in the Twin Cities region
Communicating evaluation results
The fourteenth in a series of tipsheets for conducting program evaluation.
Events:
Economic Conference July 15 – Return on Investment: The dollars and cents of a nonprofit program's worth
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