Announcing New Partnership
We are proud to retain 3rd party research analysis from a Top University(s). Our external research partners analyze current data and set the stage for continual research with our partner programs at the Shade Tree with women who are homeless, and recovering from mental health/addictions, sexual assault, rape, and domestic violence , and with Youth Offenders Drug Court serving both youth and families and presided over by Judge Cedric Kerns. Check back for more news on our current data and up-coming news on our partnerships!
Research
Results speak like nothing else can. Rigorous research is a powerful testament to the encompassing effects of a work, program and/or principle in practice. As an organization we are dedicated to research regarding both program effectiveness and specific outcomes. We are proud to announce in that in 2011 we embarked upon a research partnership a Top University in the school of social work and are in the development stages of ongoing research through that partnership(s).
Below are our internal research results on (internal organizationally run) research on participants in one of our shelter partners over a three year period. Here is the general overview of outcomes. Below the general overview is a summary document with more details. We anticipate additional and more detailed reports soon to come, as well as external reviews of the data by others and their reports, including our University partnership(s).
- We saw an average gain in the overall group in all areas surveyed.
- 66% of the participants gained practical skills like communication, boundary setting, communicating needs, feeling powerful, personal responsibility and decreased co-dependency behaviors.
- 63% of participants gained healthier emotional connections with both self and others.
- 75 % of participants saw a rise in their practical outcomes like decreased self-harming behaviors and drinking to get drunk, and increases in body image, building healthy relationships, engagement and enjoyment in life.
- 63% of participants found increases in Self-Efficacy