CITY OF SAN JOSÉ BEST Evaluation Report and Summary of Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force 2010-2011 BEST Cycle XX PRESENTED TO: Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force San José Parks, Recreation, Neighborhood Services PRESENTED BY: Community Crime Prevention Associates December 31, 2011 FY 2010-11 BEST Final Evaluation Report 1 City of San José City of San José PRNS BEST Administration Mayor Chuck Reed City of San José Julie Edmonds-Mares - Acting Director of PRNS Angel Rios, Jr. - Assistant Director PRNS City Council Jay Castellano - Acting Deputy Director PRNS Mario Maciel - Superintendent PRNS Pete Constant Council member, District 1 For more information on the Mayor’s Gang Ash Kalra Prevention Task Force, please contact: Council member, District 2 Mario Maciel Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services Sam Liccardo City of San José Council member, District 3 200 East Santa Clara Street, San José, CA 95113 Phone: 408-277-2719 Kansen Chu Council member, District 4 Khoa Nguyen and Jose Salcido Office of Mayor Chuck Reed Xavier Campos 200 East Santa Clara Street, San José, CA 95113 Council member, District 5 Phone: 408-535-4800 Pierluigi Oliverio For more information on the BEST Program, Council member, District 6 please contact: Mario Maciel Vice Mayor Madison Nguyen San José BEST Program Council member, District 7 PRNS Department 1694 Adrian Way Rose Herrerra San José, CA 95122 Council member, District 8 Phone: 408-794-1630 Donald Rocha Report Prepared by: Council member, District 9 Community Crime Prevention Associates PO Box 730 Nancy Pyle San José. CA 95112 Council member, District 10 Administration Office 2019 Clement Ave. Debra Figone Alameda, CA 94501 City Manager (510) 814-1844 www.ccpahome.com Julie Edmonds-Mares Acting Director, Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Evaluation Team from CCPA Services Peter Ellis, Ph.D. Rachel Camacho, M.ED Chris Moore Rex Green, Ph.D. Chief of Police Marco Antonio Cruz, M.A. Tanya Baker-Riddle, B.A. Cynthia Inglacio Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Policy Team (Last Update 11/18/2010) Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Technical Team The following organizations have provided ongoing support and collaboration formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of San José to be members of the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Technical Team. This list was last updated November 11, 2011. New members are joining as organizations complete their Memorandum of Understanding: BEST Funded Agencies: Boys and Girls Club of Silicon Valley, City of San José Departments/Programs Asian American Recovery Services, Community Crime Prevention Associates, San José City Council, Asian Americans for Community Involvement , Center for Employment and Training, San José Police Department, Alum Rock Counseling Center, Cathedral of Faith, Independent Police Auditor, Bill Wilson Center, City Year Silicon Valley, Work 2 Future, Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County, Community Arts and History Support, Youth Commission, California Community Partners for Youth, East Valley 680 Neighborhood Action Coalition, PRNS Community Centers, Center for Training and Careers, First 5 of Santa Clara County, San José Public Library, California Youth Outreach, For Pits Sake, Strong Neighborhoods Initiative, EMQ Families First, Go Kids Inc, Anti Graffiti Program, Family and Children Services, Happy House‐Community United, Clean Slate Tattoo Removal Program, Firehouse Community Development Corp, Henkels and McCoy Training Services, Safe School Campus Initiative. Fresh Lifelines for Youth, Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara, Filipino Youth Coalition, KONA/SNI and District 8 Community Round Table, Other Government Offices Joyner/Payne Youth Services‐Aquarius , Mid Peninsula Housing Services Corporation, Santa Clara County Supervisor George Shirakawa Jr., Generations Community Wellness Centers, Inc., Most Holy Trinity Church, Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, George Mayne Elementary School, North Valley Community Association, Santa Clara County Juvenile Probation. Girl Scouts of Northern California, New Harvest Christian Fellowship, Santa Clara County Sheriff Department Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, Positive Alternative Recreation Teambuilding Impact Program, Santa Clara County Corrections Department SJSU Research Foundation/CommUnivercity, Pueblo de Dios Church, Silicon Valley African Productions, Sacred Heart Community Service, Schools Pathway Society, San José Job Corps, San José Unified School District, Rohi Alternative Community Outreach, Mexican American Community Services Agency , Moreland School District, The Tenacious Group, St. Maria Goretti P.A.C.T., Oakgrove School District, Ujima Adult and Family Services. The Bay Area After‐School All‐Stars, East Side Union High School District, West Field Oakridge, Latino College Preparatory Academy, Non‐BEST Funded Agencies: YWCA of Silicon Valley, Franklin McKinley School District, Adrian Flores Presents, Exercise Daily, Alum Rock School District, Alchemy Academy, Victory Outreach Community Services Agency, Santa Clara Office of Education. Allied Barton Security Services, Escuela Popular, Americoprs Restoring Youth and Communities/ San José Jazz, CDCR, Acknowledgments Community Crime Prevention Associates acknowledges the dedicated professionals that form the San José Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force. Their dedication to serving youth in San José has made the task of evaluating and describing their work extremely gratifying. Community Crime Prevention Associates thanks the BEST Service Providers; City of San José Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services BEST Program Support Staff; and members of the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force for their special assistance with this evaluation. The Evaluators wish to acknowledge Mayor Chuck Reed and the San José City Council for their leadership in “Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together” (BEST). San José has developed a national model of collaboration and of taking action to improve the lives of a community’s youth. The Evaluators acknowledge all the people involved in the City of San José BEST Program for their willingness to design a comprehensive intervention model for high-risk youth. The model addresses the thousands of variables that interact in the development of our youth into productive citizens who are successful at home, at school, and in the community. San José is truly Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together in order to provide opportunities for the healthy development of all of our youth. 4 FY 2010-11 BEST Final Evaluation Report City of San José BEST Cycle XX, Final Evaluation Reports FY 2010-2011 - BEST Cycle XX TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Part 1 -BEST Cycle XX Executive Summary Summary of BEST Initiatives in FY 2010-11 6 Highlights of San José BEST Services for FY 2010-11 7 Performance of BEST Funded Services for this Year 10 At a Glance: Effort, Effect, Performance, and Results for this Year 11 Customer Profile 13 Indicators of Performance - Effectiveness and Efficiency 15 The Importance of Resiliency 17 Service Performance Index 18 Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Effectiveness 20 Evaluation Methodology 21 Part 2 - Effort, Effect , and Performance BEST Grantees Effort 28 Effect 54 Performance 69 Part 3- Population Results Results 78 Part 4 - Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force (MGPTF) Summary Summary of MGPTF Strategic Work Plan Efforts 111 Effectiveness of MGPTF Policy and Technical Teams 126 Appendix A - Bibliography 133 Part 5 -BEST Cycle XX Individual Grantee Evaluation Summaries (Separate Report) Evaluation Summaries for Each of the 26 BEST Grantees 139 FY 2010-11 BEST Final Evaluation Report 5 Summary of BEST Initiative The City of San Jose’s Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force Strategic Work Plan and Bringing Everyone’s Strengths Together (BEST) 2010-11 Final Evaluation Report, reflects Cycle XX (20) of the City’s commitment to deliver services to youth that are most at-risk for gang involvement. Evaluation data reflected in this report is for FY 2010-11. During this cycle, the City of San José awarded $2.5 million in direct funding to 26 grantees to deliver Early Intervention and High Risk Intervention Services. These BEST Provid- ers collectively provided a 68% match totaling $1.7 million. The grantees who were awarded BEST funds are indicated below by Table 1 cluster of funding with their funded amounts and percent of matching funds. Table 1 indicates beginning year funding amounts: Note: Alum Rock Counseling has $50 thousand provided by the San José Police Department that are included in the evaluation of BEST. Mexican American Community Services Agency did not operate in the second half of the year. The success of the BEST Program continues to be its unwavering focus to serve youth that are disconnected to transform their lives. In the last twenty years, the BEST Program has expended a total of $42.3 million in City of San José funds, $35.4 million in matching funds from partners for a total of $77.7 million to deliver 11.0 million hours of direct service to intervene in the lives of young people to reduce gang involvement, activity and violence. The BEST Program, which is coordinated by the Mayor’s Gang Prevention Task Force (MGPTF) and San Jose Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services is successfully implementing The MGPTF 2008-2011 Strategic Work Plan titled: Action Collaboration Transformation (ACT): A Community Plan to Break the Cycle of Violence and Foster Hope The MGPTF Strategic Work Plan and an evaluation of the workings of the MGPTF