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Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) Evaluation: 2018–19 Final Programmatic Report APRIL 2020 This study was supported by contract # 18EHSLCSSYIEVALUATIO awarded by the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services and was conducted by the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and WestEd. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Principal Investigator Patricia E. Campie, AIR Report Authors Patricia E. Campie, AIR Nicholas W. Read, AIR Trevor Fronius, WestEd Garima Siwach, AIR Kevin Kamto, AIR Sarah Guckenburg, WestEd Olivia Briggs, AIR Hannah Persson, WestEd Anthony Petrosino, WestEd We want to thank Roger Jarjoura at AIR for his careful review and feedback on this report. The site coordination support from Zac Rich at CommCorps was invaluable, and we especially thank the SSYI site coordinators, their staff, and their police partners for the considerable time and effort that went into collecting all of the data needed to conduct this study. We also thank the representatives from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the Massachusetts Division of Criminal Justice Information Services for all of their assistance for this study. Suggested citation Campie, P. E., Read, N. W., Fronius, T., Siwach, G., Kamto, K., Guckenburg, S., Briggs, O., Persson, H., & Petrosino, A. (2019). Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI) Evaluation: 2018–19 Final Programmatic Report. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services. Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 II. SSYI Impact on Violent Crime in Massachusetts (2007–2017) ..................................................
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